List of Famous people who died at 69

Assaf Yaguri

First Name Assaf
Last Name Yaguri
Born on February 13, 1931
Died on March 18, 2000 (aged 69)

Assaf Yaguri was an Israeli soldier and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Democratic Movement for Change and Ya'ad between 1977 and 1981.

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Alain Bertrand

Alain Émile Auguste Bertrand
First Name Alain
Born on February 23, 1951
Died on March 3, 2020 (aged 69)
Born in France, Occitania

Alain Bertrand was a French politician. Born in Saint-Juéry, Tarn, he was originally a member of the Socialist Party before switching to LREM. At the time of his death, Bertrand had served as the Senate's representative of the Lozère department since 2012. He was mayor of Mende, Lozère from 2008 to 2016. He also previously served as the vice-president of the regional council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2004 to 2011.

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Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza

First Name Duarte
Last Name Braganza
Born on September 23, 1907
Died on December 24, 1976 (aged 69)

Dom Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza was the claimant to the defunct Portuguese throne, as both the Miguelist successor of his father, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, and later as the head of the only Brigantine house, after the death of the last Legitimist Braganza, King Manuel II of Portugal. In 1952, when the Portuguese Laws of Banishment were repealed, the Duke moved his family to Portugal, thus returning the Miguelist Braganzas to their homeland and becoming the first of the former Portuguese royal dynasty to live in Portugal since the deposition of the monarchy, in 1910.

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Djibo Leyti Kâ

First Name Djibo
Born on February 21, 1948
Died on September 14, 2017 (aged 69)
Born in Senegal, Louga

Djibo Leyti Kâ was a Senegalese politician and the Secretary-General of the Union for Democratic Renewal (URD). He was a prominent minister under President Abdou Diouf from 1981 to 1995 and founded the URD in 1998 after splitting from Diouf's Socialist Party (PS). From 2004 to 2012, he again served in the government under President Abdoulaye Wade, initially as Minister of State for Maritime Economy and then as Minister of State for the Environment beginning in 2007.

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Ahmed Brahim

First Name Ahmed
Last Name Brahim
Born on June 14, 1946
Died on April 14, 2016 (aged 69)

Ahmed Brahim was a Tunisian politician. He was the First Secretary of Ettajdid Movement and the leader of the Democratic Modernist Pole until April 2012, when his party merged into the Social Democratic Path of which he became the president. He was the Ettajdid Movement's candidate for President of Tunisia in the 2009 presidential election. A linguist by profession, he was a professor of French at Tunis University; his area of study was comparative linguistics.

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Jacques Benveniste

First Name Jacques
Last Name Benveniste
Born on March 12, 1935
Died on October 3, 2004 (aged 69)

Jacques Benveniste was a French immunologist born in Paris. In 1979, he published a well-known paper on the structure of platelet-activating factor and its relationship with histamine. He was head of allergy and inflammation immunology at the French biomedical research agency INSERM.

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Abba Kovner

First Name Abba
Last Name Kovner
Born on March 14, 1918
Died on September 25, 1987 (aged 69)

Abba Kovner was a Jewish Hebrew and Yiddish poet, writer and partisan leader. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed, but he fled into the forest, became a Soviet partisan, and survived the war. After the war, Kovner led a secretive organization that aimed to take revenge for the Holocaust by killing six million Germans, but he was arrested by the British before he could carry out his plan. He made aliyah in 1947. Considered one of the greatest poets of modern Israel, he received the Israel Prize in 1970.

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Shmuel Gogol

First Name Shmuel
Born on November 30, 1923
Died on May 13, 1993 (aged 69)

Shmuel Gogol (1924–1993) was a Holocaust survivor, musician, and founder of the Ramat Gan harmonica band.

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María Luisa Bombal

María Luisa Bombal Anthes
First Name María
Last Name Bombal
Born on June 8, 1910
Died on May 6, 1980 (aged 69)

María Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean author. Her work is now highly regarded, incorporating themes of eroticism, surrealism and feminism, and she ranks among a small number of Latin American female authors whose works received worldwide acclaim. She was a recipient of the Santiago Municipal Literature Award.

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Gérard Boulanger

First Name Gérard
Last Name Boulanger
Born on October 14, 1948
Died on June 8, 2018 (aged 69)
Born in France, Normandy

Gérard Boulanger was a French lawyer and human rights activist. He was close to the Left Front.

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