1969: The Year in People

Generation X · Year of the Rooster 🐓 · Born in 1969 turn 57 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.35

Median home

$15,550

Minimum wage

$1.60/hr

Movie ticket

$1.22

US population

3.63B

US president

Richard Nixon

Top song

"Sugar, Sugar" — The Archies

Top film

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Top TV show

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Best Picture

Midnight Cowboy

In the news: Apollo 11: humans walk on the Moon; Woodstock festival

What happened in 1969

1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.

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Born in 1969

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Javier Bardem

b. 1969 · March 1

Spanish actor

Jennifer Lopez

b. 1969 · July 24

American singer and actress

Anne Heche

1969–2022 · May 25

American actress

Cory Booker

b. 1969 · April 27

American politician

Jay-Z

b. 1969 · December 4

American rapper

Wes Anderson

b. 1969 · May 1

American filmmaker

Chaz Bono

b. 1969 · March 4

American writer, musician and actor

Cate Blanchett

b. 1969 · May 14

Australian actor

Catherine Zeta-Jones

b. 1969 · September 25

Welsh actress

Dave Grohl

b. 1969 · January 14

American rock musician

Donnie Wahlberg

b. 1969 · August 17

American singer and actor

Gerard Butler

b. 1969 · November 13

Scottish actor and film producer

Christian Laettner

b. 1969 · August 17

American basketball player

Darren Aronofsky

b. 1969 · February 12

American filmmaker

Bobby Brown

b. 1969 · February 5

American singer

Christian Slater

b. 1969 · August 18

American actor

Felix Baumgartner

1969–2025 · April 20

Austrian skydiver and extreme sportsman

Alexander McQueen

1969–2010 · March 17

British fashion designer

Amy Landecker

b. 1969 · September 30

American actress

Brett Ratner

b. 1969 · March 28

American filmmaker

Gabriel Batistuta

b. 1969 · February 1

Argentine footballer

Chyna

1969–2016 · December 27

American professional wrestler and bodybuilder

Alexis Arquette

1969–2016 · July 28

American actress

Ben Mendelsohn

b. 1969 · April 3

Australian actor

Died in 1969

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969 · World War II general, U.S. president from 1953 to 1961
Brian Jones1942–1969 · British musician
Boris Karloff1887–1969 · English actor
Allen Dulles1893–1969 · Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961
C. N. Annadurai1909–1969 · Indian politician
Kliment Voroshilov1881–1969 · Soviet military officer and politician
Clarence 13X1928–1969 · Founder of The Nation of Gods and Earths
Leo Gorcey1917–1969 · American actor
Coleman Hawkins1904–1969 · American jazz saxophonist
Allan Lockheed1889–1969 · American aviation engineer and industrialist
Charmian Clift1923–1969 · Australian writer
Alexandra David-Néel1868–1969 · French explorer, spiritualist and writer