* 1969 – Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater

* 1969 – Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor

* 1969 – Geneviève Brouillette, Canadian actress

* 1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian actor and director

* 1969 – Pierre Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1969 – Andrew Carnie, Canadian educator and writer

* 1969 – Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete

* 1969 – Torri Higginson, Canadian actress

* 1969 – Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor

* 1969 – Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete

The act that appeared most frequently through the show's run was the Canadian comedy duo of Wayne & Shuster, making 67 appearances between 1958 and 1969.

* 1969 – Helena Guergis, Canadian politician

* 1969 – Yves Racine, Canadian ice hockey player

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

* 1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian singer and musician ( Barenaked Ladies, Rheostatics, and Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle )

* 1969 – Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor

* 1969 – Michael Kulas, Canadian singer ( James )

* 1969 – Janko Kastelic, Canadian conductor

* 1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian guitarist ( Blues Traveler )

* 1969 – John Baird, Canadian politician

* 1969 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto

* 1969 – Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1969 – Michel Picard, Canadian professional ice hockey player

* 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer

Jack Brabham intended to retire at the end of the 1969 season and sold his share in the team to Tauranac.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

The team was unable to move out of the cellar, with losing seasons between 1969 and 1975.

A Chagossians | Chagossian, known as " Samson ", photographed by a US National Geodetic Survey team in 1969.

Wessel Johannes " Hansie " Cronje ( 25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002 ) was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s.

The Royals started in 1969 and are the only major league KC team that has neither moved nor changed its name.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

Matt Busby resigned as manager in 1969 and was replaced by the reserve team coach, former Manchester United player Wilf McGuinness.

Following an eighth-place finish in the 1969 – 70 season and a poor start to the 1970 – 71 season, Busby was persuaded to temporarily resume managerial duties, and McGuinness returned to his position as reserve team coach.

In 1989, they wore a " 40 for 60 " patch honoring the 1969 NFL championship team.

They were originally slated to begin play in 1971, but Symington would not accept the prospect of having Kansas City wait three years for another team and pressured MLB to have the Royals and their expansion brethren ( the Pilots and the National League's San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos ) ready for play in 1969.

Michael Schumacher (; born 3 January 1969 ) is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Mercedes team.

In 1969, the Dubna team carried out chemical experiments on element 102 and concluded that it behaved as the heavier homologue of ytterbium.

The team wore black helmets during the 1969 preseason, but NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle barred the Saints from using the helmets during the regular season, since Mecom did not notify the league office of the change.

As the team moved to Shea under new ownership, they were, in most years, required to open the season with several road games, a problem made worse in 1969 and 1973 when the Mets had long playoff runs.

The team never finished better than second to last until the 1969 " Miracle Mets " beat the Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series in what is considered one of the biggest upsets in World Series history.

In 1969, the team wore two helmet versions: Kelly green with white wings in road games, and white with kelly green wings at home.

Unitas had regained his starting spot on the team in 1969 upon recovering from an injury that led him to miss the majority of the 1968 season.

He then served as manager of the Washington Senators, from 1969 – 1971, then continued with the team when they became the Texas Rangers after the 1971 season.

By 1969, the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over ; an IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.

Marshall died on August 9, 1969, and Edward Bennett Williams, a minority stockholder who was a Washington resident and one of America's most esteemed attorneys, was chosen to run the franchise while the majority stockholder, Jack Kent Cooke, lived in Los Angeles and ran his basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers.

* June 2 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s .( b. 1969 )

For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball ( professional baseball's current official organization ) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established — and held official celebrations for professional baseball's 100th anniversary in 1969 and its 125th anniversary in 1994, both of which were commemorated with league-wide shoulder patches.

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