Data for 1969

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Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in July 1969

Richard Nixon becomes the 37th U.S. President (Jan 20), the Beatles give their last public performance, impromptu on the roof of Apple Records (Jan 30), the Boeing 747 (i.e. Jumbo Jet) makes its maiden flight in the U.S. (Feb 9), in France, the first Concorde test flight is conducted (Mar 2), Golda Meir becomes the prime minister of Israel (Mar 17), the first Moon landing takes place, by Apollo 11 (Jul 20), the first ATMs in the U.S. are installed in Rockville Centre, New York (Sep 2), the first ARPANET link, progenitor of internet, is established (Nov 21), the Vietnam War goes on – and all these fine people were born:

1969-0101 Verne Troyer* actor/(Mini-Me)/comedian – Sturgis, MI USA (2018/49)
1969-0103 Michael Schumacher* racing driver/WC – Hürth, West Germany
1969-0105 Marilyn Manson* singer – Canton, OH USA
1969-0106 Norman Reedus* actor – Hollywood, FL USA
1969-0106 Ari Sulander* hockey goalie/OB – Helsinki, Finland-a
1969-0111 Kyle Richards* actress/memoirist/philanthropist – Hollywood, CA USA-a
1969-0117 Naveen Andrews* actor – Lambeth, London, England
1969-0117 Lukas Moodysson* film director – Lund, Sweden
1969-0118 Jesse L. Martin* actor/singer – Rocky Mount, VA USA
1969-0121 Eduard Hämäläinen* decathlete – Karaganda, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union-a
1969-0123 Brendan Shanahan* hockey player/3GC/hockey executive – Etobicoke, ON Canada
1969-0126 George Tillman Jr* film producer/director – Milwaukee, WI USA-a

1969-0205 Bobby Brown*  singer/songwriter/actor – Boston, MA USA
1969-0211 Jennifer Aniston* actress – Sherman Oaks, CA USA
1969-0211 Hannu-Pekka Björkman* actor – Kannonkoski, Finland
1969-0212 Darren Aronofsky* novelist/film director – Brooklyn, NY USA
1969-0212 Steve Backley* athlete/javelin/OS – Sidcup, England
1969-0218 Alexander Mogilny* hockey player/3GC – Khabarovsk, Russia, Soviet Union-a

1969-0301 Javier Bardem* actor – Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
1969-0301 Gary “Litefoot” Davis* native American actor/spokesman – Upland, CA USA-a
1969-0307 Valentin Kononen* race walker/WC – Helsinki, Finland
1969-0311 Terrence Howard* actor – Chicago, IL USA-a
1969-0329 Kai Nurminen* hockey player – Turku, Finland

1969-0403 Ben Mendelsohn* actor – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1969-0418 Stefan Schwarz* football player – Malmö, Sweden
1969-0420 Felix Baumgartner* skydiver/ daredevil – Salzburg, Austria
1969-0421 Toby Stephens* actor – Fitzrovia, London, England
1969-0422 Harri Syrjänen* chef/television personality – Finland
1969-0425 Renée Zellweger* actress – Katy, TX USA

1969-0503 Amy Ryan* actress – New York, NY USA-a
1969-0510 Dennis Bergkamp* football player/manager – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1969-0513 Petri Varis* hockey player – Varkaus, Finland
1969-0514 Cate Blanchett* actress – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1969-0516 Tucker Carlson* political commentator – San Francisco, CA USA -a
1969-0516 Ari-Pekka Nikkola* ski jumper/OG – Kuopio, Finland
1969-0525 Anne Heche* actress – Aurora, OH USA
1969-0528 Justin Kirk* actor – Salem, OR USA

1969-0607 Brandon Jenkins* singer-songwriter/ philanthropist – Tulsa, OK USA(2018/48)
1969-0610 Svante Thunberg* actor/producer/author – Boo Parish, Sweden-a
1969-0614 Steffi Graf* tennis player – Mannheim, West-Germany
1969-0614 Rain Pryor* actress/comedian – Los Angeles, CA USA
1969-0615 Sheldon Kennedy* hockey player – Brandon, MB Canada
1969-0615 Oliver Kahn* football goalie – Germany-a
1969-0617 Paul Tergat* long distance runner – Riwo, Baringo District, Kenya
1969-0630 Jim Montgomery* hockey player/coach – Montreal, QC Canada

1969-0703 Shawnee Smith* actress/singer – Orangeburg, SC USA
1969-0707 Joe Sakic* hockey player/3GC/executive – Burnaby, BC Canada
1969-0724 Jennifer Lopez* actress – The Bronx, NY USA
1969-0728 Dana White* UFC-organizer – Manchester, CT USA

1969-0813 Midori Ito* figure skater – Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1969-0817 Donnie Wahlberg* actor – Boston, MA USA
1969-0818 Edward Norton* actor – Boston, MA USA
1969-0818 Christian Slater* actor – New York, NY USA
1969-0819 Matthew Perry* actor – Williamstown, MA USA
1969-0820 Santeri Kinnunen* actor – Helsinki, Finland
1969-0828 Jack Black* actor – Santa Monica, CA USA
1969-0831 Jonathan La Paglia* actor – Adelaide, Australia

1969-0907 Rudy Galindo* figure skater – San Jose, CA USA
1969-0910 Chris Joseph* hockey player – Burnaby, BC Canada
1969-0913 Tyler Perry* actor – New Orleans, LA USA
1969-0917 Keith Flint* singer/musician – Redbridge, London, England (2019/49)-a
1969-0919 Jóhann Jòhansson* composer – Reykjavik, Iceland
1969-0922 Tuomas Kantelinen* composer – Kankaanpää, Finland
1969-0925 Catherine Zeta-Jones* actress/wife of Michael Douglas/philanthropist – Swansea, Wales-a
1969-0928 Piper Kerman* writer (of OITNB) – Boston, MA USA

1969-1007 Karen Nyberg* mechanical engineer/astronaut – Parkers Prairie, MN USA
1969-1009 Steve McQueen* film director/screenwriter – London, England
1969-1013 Mikko Hyppönen* computer security expert – Finland
1969-1013 Nancy Kerrigan* figure skater – Stoneham, MA USA
1969-1015 Dominic West* actor – Sheffield, England-a
1969-1023 Sanjay Gupta* neurosurgeon, medical reporter – Novi, MI USA
1969-1023 Sanjay Gupta* (or 1966?) film director/producer – Bombay, India

1969-1104 Matthew McConaughey* actor – Uvalde, TX USA
1969-1116 Janne Virtanen* athlete/strongman/WC – Espoo, Finland
1969-1120 Meredith Whitney* businesswoman – Summit, NJ USA
1969-1125 Jani Hirvinen* computer specialist/drone pioneer – Helsinki, Finland
1969-1128 Colman Domingo* actor/playwright/director – Philadelphia, PA USA-a

1969-1210 Rob Blake* hockey player/3GC/executive – Simcoe, ON Canada
1969-1214 Archie Kao* actor – Washington, D.C. USA
1969-1215 Ralph Ineson* actor – Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
1969-1217 Laurie Holden* actress – Los Angeles, CA USA
1969-1227 Joan “Chyna” Laurer* wrestler/model/actress – Rochester, NY USA (2016/46)
1969-1228 Linus Torvalds* software engineer/creator of Linux – Helsinki, Finland
1969-1229 Pontus Edgren* screenwriter/producer – Sweden-a
1969-1229 Jennifer Ehle* actress – Winston-Salem, NC USA

Updated 15.6.2019

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