* 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 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

After the death of Brian Epstein and the unpopular surreal television film, Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles returned to a more raw style with The Beatles ( 1968 ), Abbey Road ( 1969 ) and Let It Be ( 1970 ), before their eventual break up.

It was re-titled as The Best of the Seekers in the UK and spent one week at No. 1 in February 1969, managing to knock the Beatles ' ( White Album ) off the top of the charts and preventing the Rolling Stones ' Beggars Banquet from reaching the top spot.

Preston had been introduced to The Beatles during the early 1960s, but did not work with them until 1969, when Harrison invited him to join them for recording sessions in order to defuse tensions in the band.

No singles were taken from The Beatles in either Britain or America, but " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " backed with " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", both from the album, became a double-sided smash in Australia, spending five weeks at Number One in the beginning of 1969.

In October 1969, a Detroit radio programme began to promote theories based on clues supposedly left on The Beatles and other Beatles albums that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by a lookalike.

The White Album was notable for blocking The Beatles ' follow-up album, Yellow Submarine, which debuted ( and peaked at ) number 3 on 8 February 1969, the same week The White Album was dominating the second position on the charts.

The group performed and sang a medley consisting of " What the World Needs Now Is Love " and The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love " on 23 February 1969 and performed and sang " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In " on 18 May 1969, the day after the medley fell from the Hot 100 summit.

On 21 October 1969, The Beatles ' press office issued statements denying the rumour, deeming it " a load of old rubbish " and saying that " the story has been circulating for about two years — we get letters from all sorts of nuts but Paul is still very much with us.

Terry Knight, a singer on Capitol Records, had witnessed the Beatles ' White Album session during which drummer Ringo Starr had walked out and, in May 1969, released a song called " Saint Paul " about the impending break-up of The Beatles.

Despite his departure from the " White Album " sessions, Emerick remained on good terms with the Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney, who invited Emerick to quit EMI and come work for their company, Apple Corps Ltd., in 1969.

" Get Back " is a song by The Beatles, originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to " The Beatles with Billy Preston.

The Beatles performed " Get Back " ( along with other songs from the album ) as part of the " The Beatles Rooftop Performance " which took place on the roof of Apple Studios in Savile Row, London on 30 January 1969.

It was the Beatles ' first single to be released in true stereo instead of mono as part of the " stereo only " movement gaining force in 1969.

In 1969, The Beatles used the studios while rehearsing music for their album Let It Be.

The album features a cover version of the Beatles ' " It's All Too Much " from the 1968 Yellow Submarine movie and 1969 soundtrack.

For their 1969 album Shady Grove, Duncan did not participate, replaced by renowned English session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, who had played on scores of hit albums and singles by acts like The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who and Steve Miller, among many others.