** Ptolemy I Soter ( 305 BC – 282 BC ) and his wives Eurydice and

** Ptolemy II Philadelphos ( 284 BC – 246 BC ) and his wives Arsinoe I and Arsinoe II Philadelphos

** Ptolemy III Euergetes I ( 246 BC – 222 BC ) and his wife Berenice II

** Ptolemy IV Philopater ( 222 BC – 204 BC ) and his wife Arsinoe III

** Ptolemy V Epiphanes ( 204 BC – 180 BC ) and his wife Cleopatra I

** Ptolemy III, King of Egypt, who has reunited Egypt and Cyrenaica and successfully waged the Third Syrian War against the Seleucid kingdom

** Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

** September 28 – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt ( may have occurred September 29, records unclear ).

** December – Battle in Alexandria, Egypt between the forces of Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII and those of rival King Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and Queen Arsinoe IV.

** Ptolemy of Mauretania, client king of Mauretania ( d. AD 40 )

** Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.

** Ptolemy IV Philopator, Greek king of Egypt who has reigned from 221 BC and under whose weak and incompetent rule, heavily influenced by his favourites, much of Ptolemaic Syria has been lost and native uprisings have begun to disturb the internal stability of the country ( b. c. 238 BC )

** Arsinoe III, queen of Egypt, sister and wife of the King Ptolemy IV ( assassinated ) ( b. c. 246 BC )

** Cleopatra I Syra, queen of Egypt from 193 BC, wife of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and regent for her young son, Ptolemy VI Philometor ( b. c. 204 BC )

** Ptolemy of Mauretania born in ca 10 BC – 5 BC

** Battle of Salamis ( 306 BC ) fought between two of the Diadochi, Ptolemy I and Demetrius

** Xanthus, a Theban king, the son of Ptolemy, killed by Andropompus or Melanthus

** Berenice I of Egypt, mother of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy I of Egypt

** Berenice ( Seleucid queen ), daughter of Ptolemy II of Egypt and wife of Seleucid monarch Antiochus II Theos

** Berenice II of Egypt, daughter of Magas of Cyrene, wife of Ptolemy III of Egypt and traditional namesake of the constellation Coma Berenices

** Berenice III of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX of Egypt ; she first married Ptolemy X of Egypt, and later Ptolemy XI of Egypt

** John Archdale, British colonial governor ( d. 1717 )

** South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.

** Toru Hashimoto, Japanese local governor

** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia ( assassinated ) ( b. 1904 )

** George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama.

** Richard Barrett Lowe, American governor of both Guam and American Samoa ( d. 1972 )

** Eliot Spitzer, American politician and former governor of New York

** Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.

** Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke wins a spot in the runoff election for governor of Louisiana, ultimately losing to Edwin Edwards.

** Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed at the Battle of Guté Dili by an alliance of Shewan forces under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte.

** Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first governor general and founder of Pakistan ( d. 1948 )

** Democrats sweep the U. S. Congressional midterm elections ; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California ; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

** The British governor of Aden cancels the constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.

** Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first female U. S. governor who did not succeed her husband.

** In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U. S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

** Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia governor's race, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

** Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.

** Eumenes of Cardia as governor of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia ; and

** Lysimachus becomes governor of Thrace.

** William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island ( d. 1678 )

** William Berkeley, governor of Virginia ( d. 1677 )

** Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore ( d. 1647 )

** Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana ( b. 1716 )