* 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 – 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.

George Lucas and Walter Murch incorporated an Eliza-like dialogue interface in their screenplay for the feature film THX-1138 in 1969.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film.

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

The town and its vicinity has been used as the setting for numerous films and television programmes, including Iris about the life of Iris Murdoch starring Judi Dench ; Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway ; Kavanagh QC starring John Thaw ; ' East of Ipswich ' by Michael Palin ; Little Britain with Matt Lucas and David Walliams ; and a 1969 version of David Copperfield.

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

New coach Bob Cousy traded Lucas in 1969.

* A pen name of the British novelist John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 1903 – 1969 )

* Lucas Parsons, professional golfer, born in Orange in 1969

While working at Biograph Studios, Wilfred Lucas met and ultimately married actress / screenwriter Bess Meredyth ( 1890 – 1969 ) with whom he had a son.

Robert Russell died in 1969 and Lucas replaced him with John Bowie.

* German Tanks of World War II: The Complete Illustrated history of German Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1926-1945, F. M. von Senger und Etterlin, translated by J. Lucas, Galahad Books, New York, 1969, ISBN 0-88365-051-7

* German Tanks of World War II: The Complete Illustrated history of German Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1926-1945, F. M. von Senger und Etterlin, translated by J. Lucas, Galahad Books, New York, 1969, ISBN 0-88365-051-7

Lucas (" Luuk ") Petrus van Troost ( born 28 December 1969 in Schiedam, Zuid-Holland ) is a former Dutch cricketer, who captained the national team.

Early versions were fed via triple Weber 40DCOE carbs ; models after 1969 featured Lucas mechanical fuel injection.

The South Shore Mall Twin Cinema opened in 1969 and served as a prominent theater on the island until its closure in 1998.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.

The territory was created in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act ( before, the area was considered part of Queensland ) and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs nearly 800 km further South, already in the Tasman Sea.

* 1969 – Sean Michael, South African actor

Wessel Johannes " Hansie " Cronje ( 25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002 ) was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s.

* 1969 – Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier cuts the U. S. Navy destroyer in half.

* 2002 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer ( b. 1969 )

* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U. S. military commanders.

* 1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer

* 1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer

Nonetheless, Malaysia was active in the opposition to apartheid that saw South Africa quit the Commonwealth in 1961, and was a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in 1967 and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1969, with the Tunku as its first Secretary-General in 1971.

* 1969 – Musetta Vander, South African actress

The rifle entered United States Army service and was deployed for jungle warfare operations in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the U. S. military's standard service rifle of the Vietnam War by 1969, replacing the M14 rifle in that role.

* 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election as the Labor member for Blaxland in New South Wales.

* Phil Masinga ( 1969 ), full name Philemon Masinga, a former South African footballer who played for teams in several countries

* 1969 – Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.

More recent usage was Peter Read's 1981 publication of The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969.

A radical ( Marxist ) wing of the NLF gained power in South Yemen in June 1969.

* June 2 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s .( b. 1969 )