* 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.

Robert Prosinečki (, born 12 January 1969 ) is a Croatian football manager and former football midfielder.

From 1948 to 1969 he was the chairman of the Croatian League of Communists, and as such was a close collaborator of President Josip Broz Tito.

Edvin Biuković ( June 22, 1969 – December 5, 1999 ) was a Croatian comics artist.

Anthony ( Tony ) Cetinski ( born May 31, 1969 ) is a Croatian pop singer.

* Ivana Banfić ( born 1969 ), Croatian dancer and pop singer

Ivana Banfić () ( born November 16 1969 ) is a Croatian dancer and pop singer.

Zoran Dukić ( born 1969 Zagreb ) is a Croatian classical guitarist.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Although three general officer grades continued to be authorised, they have not been used since the 1969 coup.

In June 1969 he won the Labour Party nomination for the constituency of Bedwellty in Wales ( later Islwyn ) for the following general election.

* 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States ( d. 1969 )

Under the direction of anthropologist Margaret Mead, the Parapsychological Association took a large step in advancing the field of parapsychology in 1969 when it became affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), the largest general scientific society in the world.

The Chargers have six players and one coach enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio: wide receiver Lance Alworth ( 1962 – 1970 ), defensive end Fred Dean (–), quarterback Dan Fouts (–), head coach / general manager Sid Gillman ( 1960 – 1969, ), wide receiver Charlie Joiner (–), offensive lineman Ron Mix ( 1960 – 1969 ) and tight end Kellen Winslow (- 1987 ).

Prices held well until the general collapse of Victorian prices in the early 1920s, when they fell to the hundreds, where they remained until the 1960s ; by 1969 £ 4, 600 had been reached again ( the huge effect of inflation must of course be remembered for all these figures ).

By 1969, the Labour Party was suffering serious electoral reverses, and by the turn of 1970 had lost a total of 16 seats in by-elections since the previous general election.

" The term " gay " did not become widely familiar to the general public until the Stonewall riots in 1969.

That guide was the inspiration for the " Junior Woodchucks Guidebook " ( Il Manuale delle Giovani Marmotte ), a series of several Disney books with tips, advice, general culture, and curious facts about nature and life, released in Italy by Mondadori in seven volumes between 1969 and 1974, and later translated into several languages.

Torrijos thrust Martínez aside in 1969, promoted himself to brigadier general, and was de facto ruler of the country until his death in a 1981 plane crash.

After he became president in January 1969, Nixon appointed Mitchell attorney general while making an unprecedented direct appeal to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that the usual background investigation not be conducted.

In the internal power struggle that followed Torrijos emerged victorious — he exiled Martínez in 1969 and promoted himself to brigadier general.

* Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1890 – 1969 ), a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, popularly known as " Ike "

Douglas became a Labour member of parliament at the 1969 general election.

* Mike Tannenbaum ( born 1969 ), general manager of the New York Jets.

Other significant locomotives include: Bonnie Dundee, built in 1900 as a-gauge tank engine before being donated to the R & ER by a member and converted to-gauge, later converted again from tank to tender configuration ; Synolda, a twin to the original loco Sans Pareil, built in 1912, saved from Belle Vue Zoo in 1978 and now in the railway museum ; Shelagh of Eskdale, a 4-6-4 diesel built in 1969 incorporating parts of the Heywood loco Ella ; Perkins, a rebuilt 0-4-4 diesel engine, which started as a quarry shunter before being rebuilt into the steam-outlined Passenger Tractor and then again in 1984 into its current guise ; Douglas Ferreira, a B-B diesel loco constructed in 2005 and named after the general manager of the R & ER from 1961 to 1994.

Following yet another victory for Fianna Fáil at the 1969 general election, Hillery became Minister for External Affairs ( renamed Foreign Affairs in 1972 ), one of the most prestigious of cabinet posts.

This cast doubts on Lynch and his ability to win a general election, however, he proved his critics wrong in the 1969 general election when Fianna Fáil won its first overall majority since Éamon de Valera in 1957, and Lynch proved himself to be a huge electoral asset for the party.

He lost the 1969 general election to the incumbent Jack Lynch, but won the 1973 general election and became Taoiseach in a Fine Gael-Labour Party government.