List of Famous people who died in 1969

Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids, and, as adults, The Bowery Boys. Gorcey was famous for his use of malapropisms, such as "I depreciate it!" instead of "I appreciate it!"

Dan Bullock was a United States Marine and the youngest U.S. serviceman killed in action during the Vietnam War, dying at the age of 15.

Alice Jacqueline Perry was a poet, a feminist and the first woman in Europe to graduate with a degree in engineering.

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

Matsutarō Shōriki was a Japanese journalist and media mogul, also known as the father of Japanese professional baseball.

Robert Taylor was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of cinema.

George Preston Marshall was an American businessman who was the founder of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He founded the team in 1932 as the Boston Braves and was its controlling owner until his death in 1969. Marshall, a supporter of racial segregation, was the last NFL owner to integrate African Americans onto a roster, only doing so in 1962 under pressure from the federal government who threatened to block the use of D.C. Stadium, which they owned, unless he did.

Charles Hollis "Chuck" Taylor was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman/product marketer who is best known for his association with the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote.

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He is a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.

Michael Ronald Taylor was a British jazz composer, pianist and co-songwriter for the band Cream.