List of Famous people who died at 69

David Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton JP DL was a British peer and politician.

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was a French actor, critic, screenwriter, and director. In 1951, Doniol-Valcroze was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma, along with André Bazin and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. The magazine was initially edited by Doniol-Valcroze between 1951-1957. As critic, he championed numerous filmmakers including Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, and Nicholas Ray. In 1955, then 23-year-old François Truffaut made a short film in Doniol-Valcroze's apartment, Une Visite. Jacques's daughter Florence played a minor part in it.

Patricia "Pat" Gage was a Scottish actress.

René Féret was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. His film Solemn Communion, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. In The Man Who Wasn't There, his 1987 film adaption of Roderick MacLeish's novel, he played alongside Claude Jade in the leading role of Charles Elaine.

David Robert Jones, was a British born zoologist and biologist.

Boris Gavriilovich Shpitalny was a Soviet designer of aircraft guns and cannons and one of the first people awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.