List of Famous people who died at 69

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serdyuk, also known as Les Serdyuk ; October 14, 1940 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR – May 26, 2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996).

José Rodrigues Neto was a Brazilian football fullback and manager.

Carlos Apolinar Lemos Simmonds was the sixth Vice President of Colombia.

Carlos José Barisio was a professional goalkeeper, born in San Fernando, Buenos Aires. He retired from football in 1987, after amassing 271 appearances in the Argentinian Primera.

Antoine Abel was a poet from Seychelles born on November 27, 1934 in Anse Boileau, and died on October 19, 2004 in Mahé, Seychelles. He is considered the father of Seychelles literature.

Francis "Frank" Murphy was an Irish athlete, who specialised in middle-distance running. He earned a silver medal by finishing in second place in the 1500 metres event at the 1969 European Athletics Championships. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 1968 and 1972. He was also a 1500 m runner-up to Henryk Szordykowski at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He died on 5 January 2017 at the age of 69.

José María Romero de Tejada Gómez, was a Spanish conservative jurist who was the Attorney General of Catalonia from 2013 until his death in 2017.

John Heysham Gibbon, AB, MD, was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century. He was the son of Dr. John Heysham Gibbon Sr., and Marjorie Young Gibbon, and came from a long line of medical doctors including his father, grandfather Robert, great-grandfather John and great-great grandfather.

Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole, CMG OBE was a Sierra Leonean politician. He served as Governor-general and President of Sierra Leone for 1 day in 1971. Cole was appointed officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965 for "Public services as minister without portfolio" and inducted as a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1973.