* 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.

* 1969 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist ( Napalm Death, Terrorizer, and Lock Up ) ( d. 2006 )

The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

Christopher J. Scarver ( born July 6, 1969 ) is an American convicted murderer who, while in prison, murdered notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and convicted murderer Jesse Anderson.

Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey ( New York: Doubleday, 1969 )

His coach Larry Snyder who also had coached Jesse Owens said that Davis was possibly a greater talent than Jesse Owens .< cordnor nelson, track and field athletes the great ones, 1969 >

* 1969 – 1970 Jesse Carver

Jesse L. Martin ( born Jesse Lamont Watkins ; January 18, 1969 ) is an American actor and singer.

Notable past Board members have included Caspar Weinberger ( 1967 – 1969 ), Jesse Unruh ( 1983 – 1987 ), Gray Davis ( 1986 – 1994 ), Matt Fong ( 1995 – 1998 ), Kathleen Connell ( 1995 – 2003 ), Phil Angelides ( 1999 – 2006 ), Willie Brown ( 2000 – 2005 ), and Steve Westly ( 2003 – 2006 ).

*" Jesse James " ( 1969, Nu-Beat )

* John John Jesse ( born 1969 ), American painter

* Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey, ( New York: Doubleday, 1969 )

In 1969 four former IBM engineers: Jesse Awieda, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and Zoltan Herger, founded the Storage Technology Corporation, which officially became known as StorageTek in 1983.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

* 1913 – James Pike, American Episcopal bishop ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician ( Manic Street Preachers )

Guitar part for " Give it Up or Turn it Loose " by James Brown ( 1969 )

* 1969 – Michael Kulas, Canadian singer ( James )

James M. Poitras has written that he chose this epoch for the date and time routines in a package developed by his group at MGH in 1969:

* 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.

* Skip James ( 1902 – 1969 ), American blues musician, born Nehemiah Curtis James

James Bjorken proposed that pointlike partons would imply certain relations should hold in deep inelastic scattering of electrons and protons, which were spectacularly verified in experiments at SLAC in 1969.

* 1969 – James Frey, American author

On 26 April 1976, while on a revival tour of The Mating Season, a 1969 farce by the Irish playwright Sam Cree, James suffered a heart attack on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.

* 1969 The Best of Tommy James and the Shondells -- Roulette SR-42040

* James Bond film series, from You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ) to Die Another Day ( 2002 ), with the exception of On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ).

Charles James Fox: A Man for the People, 1969 online edition

Close was previously married to Cabot Wade ( 1969 – 1973 ) and James Marlas ( 1984 – 1987 ).

A solution for the latter was found in 1969 by Elwyn Berlekamp and James Massey, and is since known as the Berlekamp – Massey decoding algorithm.

The character of Bishop Archer is loosely based on the controversial, iconoclastic Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who in 1969 died of exposure while exploring the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in the West Bank.

* James F. Hastings of Olean, retired former U. S. Congressman ( served from 1969 to 1976 )

* James Austin Murray ( born 1969 ), painter in New York

* James Murray ( boxer ) ( 1969 – 1995 ), Scottish professional boxer who died from injuries sustained in a boxing fight