Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1969

Shivaramakrishnan Pancharatnam (1934–1969) was an Indian physicist who did significant work in the field of optics. He is noted for his discovery of a type of geometric phase sometimes known as Pancharatnam phase for polarized beams passing through crystals. He was born in Calcutta in West Bengal, India in 1934. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences at the early age of 25. He was a reader at the Department of studies in Physics, University of Mysore from 1961-1964. From 1964 until his death in 1969 at the age of 35 he was a Research Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, working in association with George William Series. His publications for this period were mainly concerned with the theory of effects found in experiments on optical pumping, e.g. double refraction in a gas due to spin alignment. Professor Series has written an introduction to the life and work of Pancharatnam. He also prepared, for the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the last three papers from notes left by Pancharatnam.

Egil Hjorth-Jenssen was a Norwegian actor and theatre director, playwright, children's writer and translator.

Armand Henning Carlsen was a Norwegian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Cecil Frank Powell fue un destacado físico británico, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Física en 1950 por su desarrollo del método fotográfico de estudiar los procesos nucleares y por el resultante descubrimiento del pion (pi-mesón), una partícula subatómica pesada. Sus colaboradores en el estudio, publicado en 1947, fueron Giuseppe Occhialini, H. Muirhead y el joven físico brasileño César Lattes. El pion demostró ser la partícula hipotética propuesta en 1935 por Yukawa Hideki de Japón en su teoría de física nuclear.

Lejzor Czyz, más conocido como Leonard Chess, fue un ejecutivo de compañía discográfica y cofundador de Chess Records. Fue influyente en el desarrollo del blues eléctrico.

Cecil Edwin Webber was a British television writer and playwright. He is best remembered for his contribution to the creation of the famous science-fiction series Doctor Who while working as a staff writer for the BBC in the early 1960s. Although none of his scripts were eventually used in the programme—producer Rex Tucker felt he was not capable of 'writing down' to the level required—he participated in many crucial early development meetings, and co-wrote the first format document for the series with Donald Wilson and Sydney Newman. His draft script for the proposed first ever episode formed the basis of the broadcast first episode eventually written by Anthony Coburn. Webber received a co-writer's credit on internal BBC documentation for the episode, although not on screen.

Leopold Biberti (1894–1969) was a Swiss actor. Born as French, he got the Swiss citizens rights in 1920.

Lewis Thomas Casson fue un actor y director teatral británico, esposo de Dama Sybil Thorndike.

El mariscal Kliment Efrémovich Voroshílov fue un destacado militar y político soviético.