* 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.

In 1968 and 1969, members of the Chicago Imagists, such as Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Robert Lostutter, Jim Nutt, and Barbara Rossi produced bizarre representational paintings.

* " Dennis Hopper, Riding High ," Playboy ( Chicago ), Dec. 1969

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( born as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies ; March 27, 1886, Aachen – August 17, 1969, Chicago ) was a German-American architect.

The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Metropolitan Structures Collection, 1961 – 1969, includes scrapbooks and photographs documenting Chicago projects.

* 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.

* 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the " Chicago Eight " that began on September 24.

* 1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Many of SOM's post-war designs have become icons of American modern architecture, including the Manhattan House ( 1950 ), designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ; and the Lever House ( 1952 ), also in New York City ; as well as the Air Force Academy Chapel ( 1958 ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado ; and the John Hancock Center ( 1969 ) and Sears Tower ( 1973 ), both in Chicago.

* John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1969

* Dan Ryan Rapid Transit Stations, Myron Goldsmith Chicago, Illinois, 1969

In 1969, Neal and Beaudin hired former WCFL Chicago programmer, Allen Shaw, to program the seven ABC Owned FM Radio stations.

* Rich, Daniel Catton, Seurat and the Evolution of La Grande Jatte ( University of Chicago Press, 1935 ), NY: Greenwood Press, 1969

The paper continued as an afternoon broadsheet until 1969 when the Tribune converted the paper to the tabloid-format Chicago Today.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

* Most fumbles: 14, Washington Redskins ( 8 ) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers ( 6 ), November 14, 1937 ; Chicago Bears ( 7 ) vs. Cleveland Browns ( 7 ), November 24, 1940 ; St. Louis Cardinals ( 8 ) vs. New York Giants ( 6 ), September 17, 1961 ; Kansas City Chiefs vs. Houston Oilers, October 12, 1969.

Been was previously a member of Chicago band Aorta, and then, between 1969 and 1971, of Lovecraft, the successor band to the psychedelic rock group H. P.