About the day » Wednesday October 15, 1969Calender converter

• Marcel Soutekouw, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2017)
• Peter Daniels, Turnhout († 1988)
• Marcel Soetekouw, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2017)
• Claude DOMMANGE, Hermalle-sous-Argenteau,4681,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1994)
• Wim van Hulst († 1971)
• John William van der Zyden, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan († 2005)
• Sandra Kesting († 2010)
• Hendrikje Hillegon (Hieke) Klaassen, Stieltjeskanaal, Nederland († 2015)
• Rosane Conceição Natal, Jacarezinho, Paraná, Brasil († 1969)
• Alex Wedekind († 1969)

• Adriana Rood (84), Akersloot
• Andries Scholte (65), Drachten
• Andrew Coleman (77), Point Pleasant, Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America
• Albertus Johannes Hendriks (82), Cuijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arlette Hélène FROGIN (27), Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Anna Jacobs Pijlman (85), Grouw
• Agnes Strick (97), Zeeland, Ottawa, Michigan, United States
• Adriana Cornelia Nijssen (80), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arizona M King **** (85), Eufaula, McIntosh, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Kornelis Lingsma (79)

• 1967 » Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
• 1968 » Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
• 1968 » Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
• 1968 » Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
• 1968 » Vanessa Marcil, American actress
• 1969 » Dominic West, English actor and director
• 1969 » Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
• 1970 » Eric Benét, American musician
• 1970 » Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1970 » Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier

• 1959 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
• 1960 » Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1963 » Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1966 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
• 1968 » Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1976 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1978 » W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
• January 5 » The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
• January 17 » Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
• May 15 » People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by the University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot.
• July 30 » Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
• August 21 » Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.
• September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.

The temperature on October 15, 1969 was between 7.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.