List of Famous people who died in 1969
Dave O'Brien
Dave O'Brien was an American film actor, director, and writer.
Camille Marbo
Marguerite Borel known as Camille Marbo née Marguerite Appell, was a 20th-century French writer, president and laureate of the Prix Femina in 1913 and president of the Société des gens de lettres.
Charles Judels
Charles Judels was a Dutch-born, American film actor.
Charles Leslie Wrenn
Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) was an English scholar. He became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford in 1945, the successor in the chair of J.R.R. Tolkien, and held the position until 1963. Wrenn was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was also a member of the Oxford literary discussion group known as the "Inklings", which included C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, and met for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. Some of the work published by Wrenn includes The English Language (1949), A Study of Old English Literature (1967), and An Old English Grammar, written with Randolph Quirk. His literary interests were primarily comparative literature and later poets including T. S. Eliot.
Wacław Sierpiński
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books.
Claire Bertrand
Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz, also known as Claire Bertrand, was a French expressionist artist born in Sèvres on 22 June 1890. She died on 8 December 1969. She was the wife of the painter Willy Eisenschitz, also a French painter and draftsman.
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson Sr. (1896–1969) was a politician in Liberia. He was Secretary of State during much of World War II (1934–1943) under President Edwin Barclay. He also served as ambassador to the United States.
Claude Renoir
Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin was a French novelist, poet and journalist.