List of Famous people who died at 69

Michael Lennox Blake was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt (1912-1982) was the younger brother of guitarist Django Reinhardt and played rhythm guitar on most of Django's pre-war recordings, especially those with the Quintette du Hot Club de France between 1934 and 1939. He was a pioneer of the amplified jazz guitar in France and performed for years on a home-made instrument of his own design.

Carlo Bagno was an Italian actor.

Lauro Gazzolo was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Cornelia Wallace was the First Lady of Alabama from 1971–1978 and the second wife of Democratic Governor George C. Wallace.

Vladimir Ivanovich Bogdashin was an officer of the Soviet and Russian navies. He reached the rank of rear admiral.

Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev was a Russian plasma physicist who worked on controlled fusion problems. He developed a theory of transport phenomena in turbulent plasmas and a theory of the so-called anomalous behavior of plasmas in magnetic fields. In 1966, he discovered plasma instability with trapped particles.