* 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 – Mark Macon, American basketball player

* 1969 – Mark Bickley, Australian footballer

* 1969 – Mark Lui, Hong Kong composer and producer

* 1969 – Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer

* 1969 – Mark Smith, English body builder and actor

* 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer

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In 1969 the 73-note Mark I Stage Piano was introduced as a one-piece alternative to the Suitcase style, featuring four detachable legs ( used in Fender steel pedal guitars ), a sustain pedal with an adjustable pushrod ( the main component in a Rogers hi-hat ) and a single output ( mislabeled INPUT ) for use with an outboard guitar cabinet or other source of amplification.

* Mark Macon ( born 1969 ), former American professional basketball player

* Mark Seibold, 4-time World Horseshoe Pitching Champion 1966, 1969, 1979, 1986

The band was formed in 1969 by Mark Farner and Don Brewer from Terry Knight and the Pack and Mel Schacher from Question Mark & the Mysterians ; Knight soon became the band's manager.

* Mark Farner – guitars, lead vocals, keyboard ( 1969 – 1976, 1981 – 1983, 1996 – 1998 )

* Mark Kincaid ( 1969 – 1970 )

The new model offered a sportier, high performance, somewhat smaller and lower-priced alternative to the other personal luxury cars then on the market such as Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, Lincoln Continental Mark III and Oldsmobile Toronado, The 1969 Grand Prix production ending up at over 112, 000 units, far higher than the 32, 000 1968 Grand Prix built from the full-sized Pontiac body.

Judy and Mark divorced in early January 1969.

* Mark Clark ( Black Panther ), killed with Fred Hampton in an infamous Chicago police raid in 1969

The 1967 lineup lasted only two years, and by the 1969 Woodstock Festival, the lineup included Greg ' Duke ' Dewey ( drums ), Mark Kapner ( keyboards ) and Doug Metzler ( bass ).

* Mark Crossley ( b 1969 ), former Nottingham Forest, Fulham & Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper, currently playing for Chesterfield in League Two

For 1969, the Mark II range was given subtle revisions, with separate " FORD " block letters mounted on the bonnet and boot lids, a blacked out grille and chrome strips on top and below the taillights running the full width of the tail panel marking them out.

LaRouche wrote in his 1987 autobiography that violent altercations had begun in 1969 between his NCLC members and several New Left groups when Mark Rudd's faction began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University.

* 1962 – 1969 Daimler 2. 5 V8 and V8-250 used a Jaguar Mark 2 hull ( prod: 17620 )

The Lincoln Continental Mark III was a personal luxury car produced by Lincoln and sold in North America in the 1969 through 1971 model years.