Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1969

Robert Rayford, sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was a teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America based on evidence which was published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence indicated that he was "infected with a virus closely related or identical to human immunodeficiency virus type 1." Rayford died of pneumonia, but his other symptoms baffled the doctors who treated him. A study published in 1988 reported the detection of antibodies against HIV. Results of testing for HIV genetic material were reported once at a scientific conference in Australia in 1999; however, the data has never been published in a peer-reviewed medical or scientific journal.

Donald Crowhurst fue un veterano de la Real Fuerza Aérea Británica y navegante aficionado de velerismo quien murió mientras competía fraudulentamente en el Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, una regata de veleros que consiste en circunnavegar el mundo.

Leonard Sidney Woolf fue un teórico político, escritor, editor y antiguo funcionario público británico, más conocido por ser el marido de la escritora Virginia Woolf.

Assia Esther Wevill was a German woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Palestine, via Italy, then later the United Kingdom, where she had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes. She killed herself and their four-year-old daughter Alexandra Tatiana Elise using a gas oven, similar to Hughes's first wife Sylvia Plath's suicide six years earlier.

Vito Genovese, conocido como «Don Vito», fue un gánster de origen italiano que adquirió poder en la Cosa Nostra de Estados Unidos durante la guerra castellammarese, años más tarde llegó a ser el jefe de la familia Genovese.

William Henry Pratt, conocido como Boris Karloff, fue un actor británico famoso por sus papeles en películas de terror, siendo el más famoso el de el Monstruo de Frankenstein.

Bishnu Prasad Rabha was an Indian cultural figure from Assam, known for his contributions in the fields of music, dance, painting, literature as well as political activism. As an advocate of people's cultural movement, he drew heavily from different genres of classical and folk cultural traditions. Considered a doyen of the Culture of Assam, the Assamese people affectionately call him Kalaguru. He is also called by Marxists as Sainik Silpi for his active participation in the armed struggle, led by the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI).

Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), en japonés 植芝 盛平, fue un artista marcial japonés de renombre, fundador del arte marcial del Aikidō. Los practicantes de este arte o aikidōkas también lo llaman Ō-sensei en señal de admiración y respeto.

Tukaram Bhaurao Sathe, popularly known as Annabhau Sathe, was a social reformer, folk poet, and writer from Maharashtra, India. Sathe was a Dalit born into the untouchable Mang community, and his upbringing and identity were central to his writing and political activism. Sathe was a Marxist-Ambedkarite mosaic, initially influenced by the communists but he later became an Ambedkarite. He is credited as a founding father of 'Dalit Literature'.

Shu Xiuwen, fue una actriz china de cine y de teatro, además de la primera actriz de voz de China. Creció en situación de pobreza, pero alcanzó éxito en la industria cinematográfica de Shanghái antes de la Segunda Guerra Sino-Japonesa. Protagonizó numerosas películas, incluyendo la más aclamada Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu.