List of Famous people who died at 69

Jacques Daoust was a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represented the electoral district of Verdun as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party until his resignation in August 2016.

Kunitarō Sawamura was a Japanese kabuki and film actor.

Leon Festinger was an American social psychologist, perhaps best known for cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. His theories and research are credited with renouncing the previously dominant behaviorist view of social psychology by demonstrating the inadequacy of stimulus-response conditioning accounts of human behavior. Festinger is also credited with advancing the use of laboratory experimentation in social psychology, although he simultaneously stressed the importance of studying real-life situations, a principle he perhaps most famously practiced when personally infiltrating a doomsday cult. He is also known in social network theory for the proximity effect.

Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta, known as Jorge Porcel, was an Argentine comedy actor and television host. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América. Porcel is considered, along with Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic actors of the twentieth century.

Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski, was a Spanish professor, researcher and writer.

Toni Bertorelli was an Italian actor. He performed in over sixty films.

Arthur Lee Hunnicutt was an American actor known for his portrayal of wise, grizzled, and old rural characters. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Big Sky (1952). He was also known for his role in the Western television series Sugarfoot (1957-1961).

Luis Montes Mieza, was a Spanish anesthetist and pro-euthanasia activist. He was the Federal President of the association "Derecho a Morir Dignamente" from 2009 till his death.

Oleg Sergeevich Prokofiev was an artist, sculptor and poet.

Dennis Farina was an American actor, TV presenter, narrator and former police officer. He was a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. He is known for roles such as mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty and Cousin Avi in Snatch. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.