* 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.

* 1903 – Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter ( d. 1969 )

* Irene Castle ( 1893 – 1969 ), ballroom dancer in the team of Vernon and Irene Castle

In 1969 — the Springerville, Eagar, Vernon, Nutrioso, Greer, and Colter Schools consolidated with each other to form the Round Valley Unified School District.

In 1969, Vernon House, the specially built community centre for Bishopthorpe's elderly people, was officially opened.

* October 10-Vladimir Dukelsky aka Vernon Duke, composer ( d. 1969 )

* Vernon Duke ( 1893 – 1969 ), songwriter, ( removed )

Following the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan, the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Act 1970 was brought forward by Transport Minister Vernon Wilcox, with the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority ( MURLA ) created in 1 January 1971 to oversee the construction and operation of the Loop.

* Robert Fitzpatrick Courtenay Vernon, 4th Baron Lyveden ( 1892 – 1969 )

The following year ( 1969 ), Jimmy Durante sang and told the story of Frosty the Snowman, with Jackie Vernon voicing the title character.

Born Princetta Kay Adams in Knox City, Texas, the fourth of five children to Charley Alva Adams ( 1908 – 1969 ) and Ola May Henson ( 1914 – 1993 ), Adams moved at the age of 10, along with her family, to Vernon, Texas.

* Poems ( 1969 ) editor with Vernon Scannell

In 1969, Vernon Jamadar was able to capture the party leadership from Capildeo.

* Vernon Jamadar-Opposition leader ( 1965 – 1972 ); party leader ( 1969 – 1972 )

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Fiorio then departed in late 1969, eventually assuming the name Duke Tumatoe, and went on to form the All Star Frogs.

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.

* Kubicek, Robert V. The administration of imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office ( Duke University Press, 1969 )

She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th century luminaries such as Queen Victoria ( 1964 ), Lord Byron ( 1976 ) and the Duke of Wellington ( 2 vol 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 ).

According to the memoirs of a friend, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, Prince George's brother ( the Duke of Windsor ) believed that the son was Michael Temple Canfield ( 1926 – 1969 ), the adopted son of American publisher Cass Canfield – and the first husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

** Heir apparent: James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton ( b. 1969 ), elder son of the 5th Duke

# James Harold Charles Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton ( born 1969 ) ( elder son of the 5th Duke )

# Eudes Thibaut Joseph Marie of Orléans ( born on 18 March 1968 in Paris ), Duke of Angoulême, married civilly in Dreux, on 19 June 1999, and religiously in Antrain, on 10 July 1999, to Marie-Liesse Claude Anne Rolande de Rohan-Chabot ( born on 29 June 1969 in Paris ), with whom he has two children.

Duke Ellington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969

* This Business of Bomfog, 1969 ( with Madelaine Duke )

Duke as Apollo 11 capcom in 1969

Solo tributes to Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Cole Porter were all put on record in the 1970s, sometimes on the 1904 12-legged Steinway ( unique and famously ornate ) given to him in 1969 by Scott Newhall, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Further extensions to the buildings were made during the 1960s with the opening of the National College Wing in 1961 and the extension buildings and Tower Block in 1969, which were officially opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

* Princess Alice of Battenberg ( Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, 1885 – 1969 ), mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Elizabeth II

From 1969 to 1985, Sanford was President of Duke University.

In 1969, Sanford became president of Duke University, a position he held for the next sixteen years.

the titles are held by his only surviving son Alexander Hood, the 4th Viscount Bridport and 7th Duke of Bronté, who succeeded in 1969.

* Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood, 6th Duke of Bronté, 3rd Viscount Bridport ( 1911 – 1969 )