* 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 )

The award is a tribute to well-known Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock ( 1869 – 1944 ), and is accompanied by a cash prize of $ 15, 000 ( CAD ).

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 ).

Other notable explorations included the Pike expedition of 1806 – 07 by Zebulon Pike, the journey along the north bank of the Platte River in 1820 by Stephen H. Long to what came to be called Longs Peak, the John C. Frémont expedition in 1845 – 46, and the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 by John Wesley Powell.

* Stephen Powys, 6th Baron Lilford ( 1869 – 1949 )

* Massengill, Stephen E. " The Detectives of William W. Holden, 1869 – 1870.

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.

The band was named after the protagonist in Stephen Sondheim's Passion based upon the translation of Lawrence Venuti of the novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, 1869.

John Stephen Hampton ( c. 1806 – 2 December 1869 ) was Governor of Western Australia from 1862 to 1868.

Stephen F. Nuckolls ( D ), from December 6, 1869

* 1869 – Ellis Parker Butler, American author ( d. 1937 )

* September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist ( b. 1869 )

Twelve years before the town of Lenexa was platted in 1869, a young man named James Butler Hickok staked a claim on at what is now the corner of 83rd and Clare Road.

* Oregon Trail, 1869 at the Butler Institute of American Art

Ellis Parker Butler ( December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937 ) was an American author.

During his second term ( 1869 – 1870 ), Butler moved the state's capital from Omaha to present-day Lincoln.

Butler was the first university in the United States to endow a chair designated specifically for a woman, the Demia Butler Chair ( endowed in 1869 ).

Flora Abbott ( née Butler ), his mother, then met and married John Sengstacke, who had come to Georgia from Germany in 1869.

* Lexias canescens Butler, 1869