* 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player

* 1969 – Jack Canfora, American playwright

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican actress

* 1969 – Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver

* 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor

* 1969 – Louie Spence, English dancer and choreographer

* 1969 – Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist

* 1969 – Jörn Lenz, German footballer

* 1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer

* 1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician ( Sepultura )

* 1969 – Warren Defever, American musician and composer ( His Name Is Alive )

* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

* 1969 – Mark Ealham, English cricketer

* 1969 – Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer

* 1969 – Reece Shearsmith, English actor, writer, and producer

* 1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress

* 1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer

* 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Heatmiser ( d. 2003 )

* 1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate ( wife of Roman Polanski ), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

* 1969 – Smaragda Karydi, Greek actress

* 1969 – Troy Percival, American baseball player

* 1969 – Estella Marie Thompson, American prostitute

* 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York.

From 1969 Hilcote Stables was leased to Colin Crawford, and when it came up for sale in 1980 it was renamed Wimbledon Village Stables.

Between 1965 and 1969 Walker played in Beckett, a band which included Pete Oliver, Don McGinty and Colin Timmons.

He won a seat again in a 1969 by-election in the riding of Nanaimo — Cowichan — The Islands, following the death of Colin Cameron in 1968, and represented it until his retirement from electoral politics in 1979.

* Colin Fox, in The Three Musketeers ( 1969 )

James Mollison was exhibitions officer in the Prime Minister's Department from 1969 and the Government's failure to appoint a director of the NGA required Mollison to become involved in the development of the design for the building with the architects led by Colin Madigan.

In 1969, she sang Elena in Rossini's La donna del lago at the Camden Festival ; and also was offered the role of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro after an audition of which the conductor, Colin Davis, said, " I couldn't believe my ears.

The concept was strongly influenced by Keith Laumer's novel Bolo ( 1976 ), and Colin Kapp's short story " Gottlos " ( 1969 ).

* Colin ( born 1969 ) and Jonny Greenwood ( born 1971 ) of the pop group Radiohead lived in the village when young.

The score made available by Bärenreiter from its Critical Edition, first published in 1969, was used by Colin Davis in his 1969 Covent Garden production, recorded by Philips.

In 1969 Lord Harlech married Pamela Colin, and they had one daughter.

The HDT entered three Monaro's in the 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 the lead car driven by Colin Bond and Tony Roberts winning from 1968 winners Bruce McPhee and Barry Mulholland who had switched to driving a Ford XW Falcon GTHO.

* Colin Pearson ( 1969 – 72, 2008 – present ) – violin, viola

The New York Five refers to a group of five New York City architects ( Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier ) whose photographed work was the subject of a CASE meeting at the Museum of Modern Art, organized by Arthur Drexler and Colin Rowe in 1969, and featured in the subsequent book Five Architects, published by Wittenborn in 1972, then more famously by Oxford Press in 1975.

The situation became such that in 1971, sociologist Colin Campbell even suggested that one could say, " that when the South Place Ethical Society discussed changing its name to the South Place Humanist society in 1969, the English ethical movement ceased to exist.

Colin was first called into the squad in 1969 for England's South American Tour and made his international debut in a 4-0 win over Mexico.

It is based on an Australian novel written by Colin Thiele and published in 1969.

* Barthes Roland ( 1969 ), Elements of semiology ( Paris, 1967 ) translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, ( London: Cape ).

* Squad Cars ( 1969 – 1985 )-"... they prowl the empty streets at night ..."-Produced by Colin Fish & Directed by David Gooden at the Sonovision Studios, Johannesburg.

In 1969 another name change was mooted, to The South Place Humanist Society, a discussion that sociologist Colin Campbell suggests symbolized the death of the ethical movement in England.

The many novels influenced by the Ripper include: A Case to Answer ( 1947 ) by Edgar Lustgarten, The Screaming Mimi ( 1949 ) by Fredric Brown, Terror Over London ( 1957 ) by Gardner Fox, Ritual in the Dark ( 1960 ) and The Killer ( 1970 ) by Colin Wilson, Sagittarius ( 1962 ) by Ray Russell, A Feast Unknown ( 1969 ) by Philip José Farmer, A Kind of Madness ( 1972 ) by Anthony Boucher, Nine Bucks Row ( 1973 ) by T. E. Huff, The Michaelmas Girls ( 1975 ) by John Brooks Barry, Jack's Little Friend ( 1975 ) by Ramsey Campbell, By Flower and Dean Street ( 1976 ) by Patrice Chaplin, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper ( 1980 ) by Richard Gordon, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings ( 1987 ) by Iain Sinclair, Anno Dracula ( 1992 ) by Kim Newman, A Night in the Lonesome October ( 1993 ) by Roger Zelazny, Ladykiller ( 1993 ) by Martina Cole, Savage ( 1993 ) by Richard Laymon, The Pit ( 1993 ) by Neil Penswick, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ( 1994 ) by Peter Ackroyd, Pentecost Alley ( 1996 ) by Anne Perry, and Matrix ( 1998 ) by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.

* 1969 L ' URSS et la Chine devant la révolution des sociétés pré-industrielles ( avec Stuart R. Schram ) ( Armand Colin )

In 1993 Go West reached # 16 UK with " Tracks of My Tears "; since the Miracles ' original had reached the UK Top Ten in 1969 the song had been a minor chart item via the Linda Ronstadt remake (# 42 in 1976 ) and a 1982 version by Colin Blunstone which reached # 60.