List of Famous people who died at 69

Franz-Josef Röder was a German politician of the CDU and from 1959 to 1979 Minister President of Saarland. He had been a member of the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945.

James Samuel Pilafian was an American tuba player.

Pierre Michael was a French actor.

Tracy Reed was an English film and television actress.

Leon Klinghoffer was an American man who was shot, killed and thrown overboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro by members of the terrorist group known as the Palestine Liberation Front who hijacked the ship in 1985.

Harry Guardino was an American actor whose career spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1990s.

Bolat Atabaev was a Kazakhstani theater director who in 2012 was charged with "inciting social discord" for his role in the 2011 Mangystau riots. Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience. He was released on 3 July 2012.

Irene Chirwa Mambilima was the Chief Justice of Zambia from 2015 until her death in 2021. She also served as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia and presided over the 2006 and 2011 general elections and the January 2015 presidential by-election. She was part of several election observer missions including in Liberia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Seychelles. Her other international assignments included serving as Sessional Judge of the Supreme Court of The Gambia in 2003. Mambilima sat on the International Board of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) as a Director of the Africa Region. She was also a member of several professional associations including the Zambia Association of Women Judges, the Editorial Board Council of Law Reporting, the Child Fund (Zambia), Women in Law Southern Africa, and the Council of the Institution of Advanced Legal Education.

Eugen V. Witkowsky was a Russian fiction and fantasy writer, literary scholar, poet, and translator.

Ernst von Salomon was a Weimar-era national-revolutionary German writer and right-wing Freikorps member.