* 1969 – Tony Curran, Scottish actor

* 1969 – Tony Meola, American footballer

The first Hamlet in color was a 1969 film directed by Tony Richardson with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia.

In 1969, he formed a trio, The Tony Williams Lifetime, with John McLaughlin on guitar, and Larry Young on organ.

Mantle served as a part-time color commentator on NBC's baseball coverage in 1969, teaming with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek to call some Game of the Week telecasts as well as that year's All-Star Game.

The old town cemetery was the location of the murders in 1969 of Susan Perry, Patricia Walsh, Sydney Monzon and Mary Anna Wysocki by Tony Costa.

* Robert Sean Leonard ( born 1969 ), Tony Award-winning actor, current regular in TV series House.

Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

In 1969, Jones won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Alexander won Best Actress in a Play for their respective portrayals of Jack Jefferson and Eleanor Bachman in the Broadway production.

* 1969 Tony Award for Best Play

In 1969 he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Brian Friel's Lovers.

In 1969, Whitmore played the leading character of Professor Woodruff in the TV series My Friend Tony, produced by NBC.

Lansbury won her second Tony Award for her performance in Dear World ( 1969 ).

In 1969, Faithfull played Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson's title character in Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson and featuring Anthony Hopkins as Claudius.

After working as a selector on the Sound of Silence Keystone sound system, and then his own Gathering of Youth system, he began his singing career as part of The African Brothers in 1969, along with Tony Tuff and Derrick Howard.

* Tony Burrows ( 1969 – 71 )

Tony Godfrey, author of Conceptual Art ( Art & Ideas ) ( 1998 ), asserts that conceptual art questions the nature of art, a notion that Joseph Kosuth elevated to a definition of art itself in his seminal, early manifesto of conceptual art, " Art after Philosophy " ( 1969 ).

* Tony Roberts, Welsh international footballer, born in the town in 1969

Peters had starring roles in her next Broadway vehicles — Gelsomina in La Strada ( 1969 ) and Hildy in On the Town ( 1971 ), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination.

In the 1969 Ryder Cup, the entire competition came down to the anchor singles match between Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin.

In 2006, the Concession Golf Club opened in Sarasota, Florida, as a joint collaboration between Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin, to commemorate their historic Ryder Cup singles match in 1969.

Other notable films include: George Cukor's Justine ( 1969 ), Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark ( 1969 ), Christian de Chalonge's L ' Alliance ( 1970 ), Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous a Bray ( 1971 ), The Salzburg Connection ( 1972 ), Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate ( 1973 ) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette ( 1976 ).

His first victories at top players happened in 1969 in Stockholm, where he defeated Tony Roche and Stan Smith.

* 1969 – Troy O ' Leary, American baseball player

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

In fixed-point arithmetic, the finite-precision errors accumulated by FFT algorithms are worse, with rms errors growing as O (√ N ) for the Cooley – Tukey algorithm ( Welch, 1969 ).

* 1969 – Michael O ' Hearn, American bodybuilder

* 1969 – Peter O ' Meara, Irish actor

* March 4 – Lefty O ' Doul, American baseball player and restaurateur ( d. 1969 )

One of the reasons that the Provisional IRA and provisional Sinn Féin were founded, in December 1969 and January 1970, respectively, was that people like Ó Brádaigh, O ' Connell and McKee opposed participation in constitutional politics.

A sequel, Retour à Roissy ( Return to Roissy, but often translated as Return to the Chateau, Continuing the Story of O ), was published in 1969 in French, again with Jean-Jacques Pauvert, éditeur.

* Hyatt Regency O ' Hare, Rosemont, 1969

In 1969, John S. O ' Brien showed that Tay – Sachs disease was caused by an enzyme defect ; he also proved that Tay – Sachs patients could be diagnosed by an assay of hexosaminidase A activity.

In 1969, a relatively unsuccessful musical film version appeared, starring Peter O ' Toole and Petula Clark, with songs by Leslie Bricusse and an underscore by John Williams.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

The 1969 film The Valley of Gwangi, completed by Harryhausen seven years after O ' Brien's death, was based on an idea he had spent years trying to bring to the screen.

John Fisher was portrayed by veteran actor Joseph O ' Conor in the film Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), by Bosco Hogan in the miniseries The Tudors, and by Geoffrey Lewis in the 1971 miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

* Sir William Cecil features prominently in Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy's play ' The O ' Neill ' ( 1969 ), in which Kilroy uses Cecil to challenge the myth surrounding Gaelic Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone just after the latter's victory over the English at The Yellow Ford.

O ' Neal scored 46 points in Game 1 against the Trail Blazers, marking the highest single-game playoff scoring output by a Laker since Jerry West scored 53 against the Celtics in 1969.

In 1969 Norman auditioned for a role in the Los Angeles production of the rock musical Hair, which was playing at the Aquarius Theatre at 6230 Sunset Boulevard, and which was directed by Tom O ' Horgan and produced by Michael Butler and the Smothers Brothers.

The running time for multiplying rectangular matrices ( one m × p-matrix with one p × n-matrix ) is O ( mnp ), however, more efficient algorithms exist, such as Strassen's algorithm, devised by Volker Strassen in 1969 and often referred to as " fast matrix multiplication ".

In 1969, the Knoxville News Sentinel published a series of reports regarding organized crime in the county, and Governor Buford Ellington launched an investigation that led to the arrest of Constable D. C. Ramsey, Cocke County Sheriff Tom O ' Dell, and several state troopers stationed in within the county on charges of extortion and bribery.

Shortly after taking over O ' Malley announced that from 1969 all schools up to Intermediate level would be free and free buses would provide transport for the students.

He was married to Sandy Maganiello ( 1964 to 1966 ), Diane Clatworthy ( 1969 to 1974 ) and Una O ' Keeffe ( 1976 to his death in 1994 ).

* Victoria O ' Keefe ( 1969 – 1990 ), actress best known for playing Jane Beckett, laconic survivor of a nuclear attack on nearby Sheffield, in the made-for-TV nuclear warfare drama " Threads ".