* 1869 – Celluloid is patented.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

* 1812 – Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian politician ( d. 1869 )

* 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 1869 )

* 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system ( Shinōkōshō ) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

* 1949 – Ignotus, Hungarian editor and writer ( b. 1869 )

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

* Haliotis brazieri Angas, 1869 – Brazier ’ s abalone – synonym: Haliotis melculus, the honey abalone

** Haliotis brazieri f. hargravesi ( Cox, 1869 ) – synonym: Haliotis ethologus, the Mimic abalone, Haliotis hargravesi, the Hargraves ’ s abalone

* 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.

* 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

* 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete ( d. 1951 )

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* Newspaper clippings, 1865 – 1869

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

* 1869 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1928 )

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy Hungarian-American traveler, writer, and winemaker, founded Buena Vista Winery ( d. 1869 )

* 1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver ( d. 1869 )

* April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet ( b. 1869 )

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of German American Samuel " Edwin " Stanton Earhart ( born March 28, 1867 ) and Amelia " Amy " Otis Earhart ( 1869 – 1962 ), was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis ( 1827 – 1912 ), a former federal judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town.

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (), OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 ) was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

The post office was established in 1857, closed in 1858, and re-established in 1869 and the Edwin Taylor store built in 1867.

Monographs on William Mulready ( 1867 ) and on Edwin Landseer ( 1869 ) followed.

# Edwin Henry King ( 1869 to 1873 )

The papyrus remained in the collection of Edwin Smith until at least 1869 when there appeared, in the catalog of an antiquities dealer, an advertisement for " a large medical papyrus in the possession of Edwin Smith, an American farmer of Luxor.

Edwin McMasters Stanton ( December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869 ) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.

The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).

* January 1-Sir Edwin Lutyens ( born 1869 )

* Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), American poet

Edwin Denison Morgan ( February 8, 1811February 14, 1883 ) was the 21st Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869.

J. S. James married Margaret Elizabeth Maxwell in 1869, and they had seven children: Margaret Odessa, Stephen Edwin, Infant twin sons, Eunice Lettitia, Lois Cleveland, and Joe S., Jr.

( Edwin James ) Brady ( 7 August 1869 – 22 August 1952 ) was an Australian poet.

In 1869, Adams joined Edwin Booth's acting company, appearing in Romeo and Juliet, Narcisse, Othello, and Enoch Arden, based on the poem by Alfred Tennyson.

* Edwin James Brady ( 1869 – 1952 ), born in Carcour, New South Wales he had an adventurous life in many lands and was the author of some fine sea ballads

By 1869, he succeeded Edwin Henry King as the Bank's General Manager with an annual salary of $ 8, 000, a position he held for the next ten years.

* 1869: Charles Edwin Heinke died after being in ill-health for 2 – 3 years

* 1869 Jiangxi: Jiujiang John Edwin Cardwell and wife opened mission station.

* John Edwin Fulton ( 1869 – 1945 ), Seventh-day Adventist missionary to Fiji