List of Famous people who died at 69
Mohammed ibn Salman Al Khalifa
Mohammed ibn Salman Al Khalifa (Arabic: محمد بن سلمان آل خليفة; was the youngest of three sons of the hakim of Bahrain, Salman ibn Hamad Al Khalifa. His eldest brother, Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, succeeded as hakim, and his other late brother, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, was the prime minister. Mohammed was uncle to the reigning king, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa.
Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton
Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, Baron Acton of Bridgnorth was a British Labour Party politician and peer.
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleontologist Mary Leakey. Having established a program of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of Leakey's family became prominent scholars themselves.
Sir James Denby Roberts, 2nd Bt.
Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She was born in Philadelphia and moved to Los Angeles in 1958 with her family; L.A. is the focus for much of her writing.
Shozo Uchii
Shōzō Uchii was a Japanese architect and academic authority on the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. Known for the design of landmark structures such as the Setagaya Art Museum, Oita City Museum of Art, and the Fukiage Palace, the residence on the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace for the Emperor of Japan..
Johan Arend Godard de Vos van Steenwijk
Claude Pelly
Air Chief Marshal Sir Claude Bernard Raymond Pelly, was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the middle of the 20th century.
Herman Tarnower
Herman Tarnower was an American cardiologist and co-author of the bestselling diet book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (1978), which promoted a high-protein low-carbohydrate fad diet known as the Scarsdale diet. On March 10, 1980, just eight days before his 70th birthday, Tarnower was shot dead by Jean Harris. Harris was convicted of his murder at trial in White Plains, New York in 1981.
Michael Havers, Baron Havers
Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, Baron Havers, was a British barrister and Conservative politician. From his knighthood in 1972 until becoming a peer in 1987 he was known as Sir Michael Havers.