Pompey, Roman general and politician (died 48 BC)

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the last decades of the Roman Republic. As a young man, he was a partisan and protégé of the dictator Sulla, after whose death he achieved much military and political success himself. He was an ally and a rival of Julius Caesar, and died in civil war with him.

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 93 days remain until the end of the year.