Sports year 1969
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badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1969 was the Uber Cup 1969 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open , the Denmark Open , the Southeast Asian Games and the French Open . For the first time, Asian championships were held.
International events
Bandy
- February 16 - World Bandy Championship in Sweden : The Soviet Union wins the World Cup ahead of Sweden and Finland.
athletics
- April 27th - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 13.0 seconds.
- May 11 - Paola Pigni , Italy , ran the women's 5000 meters in 16.44 minutes.
- May 20 - Jaroslava Jehličková , Czechoslovakia , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 10.7 minutes.
- May 30 - Derek Clayton , Australia , ran the men's marathon in 2:08:34 hours.
- June 12 - Irma Hansson , Sweden , walked 1: 51.1 hours in the women's 20,000 meter walk.
- June 12 - Anatolij Bondarchuk , Russia , reached 75.48 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- June 19 - Ervin Hall , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds.
- June 30 - Derek Clayton , Australia , ran the men's marathon in 2:08:34 hours.
- July 2 - Paola Pigni , Italy , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 12.4 minutes.
- July 13 - Nadezhda Tschischowa , Soviet Union , hit 20.09 meters in the women's shot put.
- July 18 - Liesel Westermann , Germany , reached 62.7 meters in the women's discus throw.
- July 18 - Jorma Kinnunen , Finland , reached 92.7 meters in the men's javelin throw.
- July 20 - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 13.3 seconds.
- July 20 - Teresa Sukniewicz , Poland , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 13.3 seconds.
- July 21 - John Pennel , USA , reached 5.44 meters in the men's pole vault.
- August 4th - Willie Davenport , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds.
- August 11 - Bill Toomey , USA , scored 8,417 points in the men's decathlon.
- August 19 - Vladimiras Dudinas , Soviet Union , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 22.2 minutes.
- September 2 - Paola Pigni , Italy , ran the women's 5000 meters in 15: 53.6 minutes.
- September 5th - Waltraud Pöhland , GDR , ran the women's 1000 meters in 2: 42.1 minutes.
- September 5th - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the women's 100 meter hurdles for 12.9 seconds.
- September 18 - Vladimiras Dudinas , Soviet Union , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 22.2 minutes.
- September 27th - Liesel Westermann , Germany , threw 63.96 meters in the women's discus throw.
- October 18 - Nicole Duclos , France , ran the women's 400 meters in 51.7 seconds.
- October 27th - Liesel Westermann , Germany , reached 63.96 meters in the women's discus throw.
- November 5th - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.9 seconds.
- December 11th - Bill Toomey , USA , scored 8309 points in the men's decathlon.
- December 12 - Paola Pigni , Italy , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 12.4 minutes.
tennis
In 1969 Rod Laver won the second Grand Slam of his career after 1962 .
- Grand Slam tournament winners (men):
- Grand Slam tournament winners (women):
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1969 April 17th to 27th in Munich (Germany)
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European League
- January 25: Moscow: D. - USSR 2: 5 (women + men)
- February 26: Kassel: D. - Sweden 4: 3 (women + men)
- March 18: Prague: D. - ČSSR 3: 4 (women + men)
- April 12th: Schleswig: D. - Romania 6-1 (women + men)
- October 19: Berlin: D. - England 3: 4 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 2nd : Chalid al-'Aid , Saudi Arabian show jumper
- January 2nd : Glen Johnson , Jamaican boxer
- January 2nd : Willi Tesch , German ice hockey player
- January 3rd : Michael Schumacher , German Formula 1 racing driver
- January 5th : Petra Behle , German biathlete
- January 6 : Nicholas A'Hern , Australian walker
- January 6th : Stephan Harlander , German basketball coach
- January 10 : Andreas Reinke , German soccer player
- January 12 : Eduardo Hurtado , Ecuadorian soccer player
- January 12 : Robert Prosinečki , Croatian football player
- January 13th : Stefania Belmondo , Italian cross-country skier
- January 13th : Stephen Hendry , Scottish snooker player
- January 14th : Sergio Zárate , Argentinian football player
- January 15 : Wita Pavlysch , Ukrainian athlete
- January 16 : Axel Britz , German soccer player
- January 16 : Roy Jones Jr. , American-Russian boxer
- January 17th : Arseni Alawkin , Russian chess master
- January 18 : Dave Bautista , American wrestler
- January 19 : Predrag Mijatović , Serbian football player
- January 20th : Emil Anka , Hungarian chess grandmaster and referee
- January 21 : Mike Arnold , German ski jumper
- January 21 : Birgit Peter , German handball player
- January 22nd : Santiago Aguilera , Spanish beach volleyball player
- January 22nd : Markus Eggler , Swiss curler
- January 23 : Thomas Askebrand , Swedish football coach
- January 23 : Stefano Zanini , Italian cyclist
- January 24th : Carlos Soca , Uruguayan soccer player
- January 26th : Maarten den Bakker , Dutch cyclist
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- January 28th : Edi Glieder , Austrian soccer player
- January 28th : Giorgio Lamberti , Italian swimmer
- January 28th : Steffen Menze , German soccer player and coach
- January 29th : Lara Magoni , Italian ski racer
- January 29th : Saša Obradović , Serbian basketball player and coach
- January 30th : Alexei Drejew , Russian chess player
- January 31 : Katjuša Pušnik , Slovenian ski racer
February
- February 1 : Gabriel Batistuta , Argentine soccer player
- February 1 : Nino Salukvadze , Soviet-Georgian sports shooter and Olympic champion
- February 2nd : Knut Kircher , German soccer referee
- February 2 : Igor Shalimov , Russian soccer player and head coach of the Russian women's national soccer team
- February 3rd : Julija Djomina , Russian chess player
- February 7th : Viktor Maigurov , Russian biathlete
- February 12th : Steve Backley , British athlete
- February 13 : Patrícia Amorim , Brazilian swimmer
- February 13 : Kate Pace , Canadian ski racer
- February 13th : Frédéric Sausset , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- February 14th : Adriana Behar , Brazilian beach volleyball player; two-time world champion
- February 15th : Anja Andersen , Danish handball player and trainer
- February 15 : Sergio Martínez , Uruguayan soccer player
- February 15th : Fulvio Valbusa , Italian cross-country skier
- February 16 : Fermín Cacho , Spanish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
- February 16 : Dimas Teixeira , Portuguese soccer player
- February 17th : Željko Mavrović , Croatian boxer
- February 18 : Alexander Mogilny , Russian ice hockey player
- February 20 : Siniša Mihajlović , Serbian football player and coach
- February 21 : William David , French racing car driver
- February 21 : Petra Kronberger , Austrian ski racer
- February 22nd : Brian Laudrup , Danish football player
- February 22nd : Marc Wilmots , Belgian football player and coach
- February 23 : Michael Campbell , New Zealand golfer
- February 24th : Katrin Schreiter , German athlete
- February 25 : Paul Trimboli , Australian soccer player
- February 26 : Hendrik Ochel , German handball player
- February 27 : Frank Arens , German handball player
- February 27 : Gareth Llewellyn , Welsh rugby player
- February 28 : Butch Leitzinger , American racing car driver
March
- March 4th : Matthias Kahle , German rally driver
- March 4th : Pierluigi Casiraghi , Italian football player and coach
- March 4th : Henrik Rödl , German basketball player
- March 7th : Hideki Noda , Japanese racing car driver
- March 8th : Martina Accola , Swiss ski racer
- March 9 : Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf , American basketball player
- March 10 : Hany Guda Ramzy , Egyptian soccer player
- March 10 : Ximena Restrepo , Colombian athlete
- March 13 : Luca Bucci , Italian football goalkeeper
- March 14th : Axel Hager , German volleyball player
- March 16 : Alina Ivanova , Russian walker and long-distance runner
- March 16 : Valery Nikulin , Russian ice hockey player
- March 17 : Vjačeslavs Fanduls , Latvian ice hockey player
- March 18th : Vasyl Ivanchuk , Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- March 19 : Tuulikki Laesson , Estonian chess player
- March 21 : Ali Daei , Iranian soccer player
- March 21 : Michael Weiner , German football referee
- March 23 : Franz Stocher , Austrian track cyclist
- March 24th : Stephan Eberharter , Austrian ski racer
- March 24th : Luís Oliveira , Brazilian-Belgian soccer player
- March 27 : Gianluigi Lentini , Italian football player
- March 28th : Ilke Wyludda , German athlete
- March 28th : Ingrid Stöckl , Austrian ski racer
- March 29 : Kim Batten , American athlete
- March 30th : Troy Bayliss , Australian motorcycle racer
- March 30th : Yayoi Urano , Japanese wrestler
- March 31 : Frédéric Chassot , Swiss football player
- March 31 : Francesco Moriero , Italian football player and coach
April
- April 1st : Jean-Michel Bayle , French motorcycle racer
- April 1st : Urs Lehmann , Swiss ski racer
- April 5 : Tomislav Piplica , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football goalkeeper
- April 6th : Philipp Peter , Austrian racing car driver
- April 7th : Vadim Naumow , Russian figure skater
- April 9th : Linda Kisabaka , German athlete
- April 10th : Jochen Lettmann , German canoeist
- April 11 : Timo Aaltonen , Finnish shot putter
- April 11th : Carsten Arriens , German tennis player
- April 11th : Michael von Grünigen , Swiss ski racer
- April 12 : Lucas Radebe , South African soccer player
- April 14 : Dave Archibald , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- April 15 : Craig Foster , Australian soccer player
- April 15 : Jimmy Waite , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 16 : Germán Burgos , Argentinian soccer player
- April 16 : Marcus Jehner , German ice hockey player
- April 17th : Wadym Kulabuchow , Ukrainian ice hockey player
- April 18 : Thorsten Ehrig , German handball player
- April 18 : Anja Greb , German Taekwondo fighter and inline hockey and ice hockey player
- April 19 : Stefanie Schuster , Austrian ski racer
- April 19 : Zsuzsa Polgár , Hungarian-American chess player
- April 24th : Jan Stankiewicz , Swedish handball player
- April 28th : Carl Rosenblad , Swedish racing car driver
- April 28 : Olga Slyusareva , Russian cyclist and Olympic champion
May
- May 7th : Katerina Maleewa , Bulgarian tennis player
- May 8 : Akebono Taro , Japanese sumo wrestler
- May 8th : Jelena Timina , Russian-Dutch table tennis player
- May 9 : Jelena Andrejewa , Russian athlete
- May 10 : Dennis Bergkamp , Dutch soccer player
- May 10 : Hilary Lindh , American ski racer
- May 11th : Yasutaka Hinoi , Japanese racing car driver
- May 11th : Simon Vroemen , Dutch obstacle runner
- May 14th : Stéphan Grégoire , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- May 15 : Emmitt Smith , American football player
- May 16 : Marco Kurz , German soccer player and coach
- May 16 : Steve Lewis , American athlete
- May 17 : José Chamot , Argentinian soccer player
- May 18 : Sybille Gruner , German handball player
- May 18 : Thekla Krause , German soccer player
- May 19 : Dmitri Filippov , Russian handball player and coach
- May 19 : Lee Myung-hee , South Korean badminton player
- May 20th : Simon Dolan , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- May 20th : Laurent Dufaux , Swiss cyclist
- May 20th : Alberto Mancini , Argentine tennis player
- May 22nd : Jörg Roßkopf , German table tennis player
- May 23 : Laurent Aïello , French racing car driver
- May 23 : Jelena Schuschunowa , Soviet-Russian gymnast and Olympic champion († 2018 )
- May 24th : Paolo Coloni , Italian racing driver and motorsport manager
- May 25th : Mariano Aguerre , Argentine polo player
- May 27 : Vladimir Pronin , Russian obstacle and long distance runner
June
- June 1st : Miranda Graf , 1st world champion in mini golf
- June 2nd : Alexander Leipold , German wrestler
- June 2nd : Túlio Humberto Pereira da Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- June 6 : Len Barrie , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 6 : Fernando Redondo , Argentinian soccer player
- June 7th : Álex Aguinaga , Ecuadorian soccer player
- June 7th : Alina Astafei , German athlete
- June 8 : Dariusz Wosz , German soccer player and coach
- June 11 : Matthias Maucksch , German football player and coach
- June 13 : Svetlana Kriweljowa , Russian shot putter and Olympic champion
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- June 14th : Steffi Graf , German tennis player
- June 14th : Jackson Richardson , French handball player
- June 15 : Oliver Kahn , German soccer player
- June 17th : Paul Tergat , Kenyan athlete
- June 17 : Ilya Zymbalar , Ukrainian-Russian football player and coach († 2013 )
- June 19 : Tobias Barnerssoi , German ski racer
- June 20 : MaliVai Washington , American tennis player
- June 21 : Harun Isa , Albanian football player
- June 21 : Gabriella Paruzzi , Italian cross-country skier
- June 23 : Fernanda Ribeiro , Portuguese athlete
- June 28th : Stéphane Chapuisat , Swiss football player
- June 28 : Phil Masinga , South African football player († 2019 )
- June 30th : Volker Mudrow , German handball player and coach
- June 30th : Uta Rohländer , German athlete
July
- July 1st : Sven Liesegang , German handball player and coach
- July 3rd : Stephan Zünd , Swiss ski jumper
- July 5th : Glenn Magnusson , Swedish cyclist
- July 7th : Johan Furhoff , Swedish chess player
- July 7th : Sylke Otto , German toboggan runner
- July 7 : Joe Sakic , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 8 : Lisa Arce , American beach volleyball player
- July 8 : François-Xavier Houlet , French handball player
- July 9th : Munkhbayar Dorjsuren , German-Mongolian sports shooter
- July 10 : Dirk Adorf , German racing driver
- July 11 : Jyri Aalto , Finnish badminton player
- July 14th : Thomas Ambrosius , Danish football player
- July 17th : Jean-Bernard Bouvet , French racing car driver
- July 17th : Jaan Kirsipuu , Estonian cyclist
- July 18 : Hege Riise , Norwegian soccer player
- July 18 : Lazaros Voreadis , Greek referee
- July 19 : Sabine Bau , German foil fencer
- July 21 : Klaus Graf , German racing driver
- July 21 : Isabell Werth , German dressage rider
- July 22nd : Ronny Weller , German weightlifter
- July 23 : Marco Bode , German soccer player
- July 24th : Maxim Michailowski , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- July 25th : Mike Hezemans , Dutch racing driver
- July 25th : Artur Partyka , Polish athlete
- July 27 : Pavel Hapal , Czech football player
- July 27 : Paul Levesque , American Wrestler (Triple H)
- July 31 : Antonio Conte , Italian football player and coach
August
- August 1st : Matthias Bleyer , Austrian soccer player
- August 1st : Tomasz Łapiński , Polish football player
- August 1st : Ibrahim Okyay , Turkish racing driver
- August 1st : Torsten Raspe , German soccer player
- August 1st : Naoki Yasuzaki , Japanese ski jumper
- August 1st : Rodin Younessi , American racing car driver
- August 2nd : Erik Meijer , Dutch football player
- August 2nd : Fernando Couto , Portuguese soccer player
- August 6th : Sören Lausberg , German cyclist
- August 11th : Vanderlei de Lima , Brazilian marathon runner
- August 15 : Yoshiyuki Abe , Japanese cyclist
- August 15 : Carlos Roa , Argentinian soccer goalkeeper
- August 16 : Joaquim Andrade , Portuguese cyclist
- August 16 : Yvan Muller , French racing car driver
- August 17th : Markus Gisdol , German soccer player and coach
- August 17 : Jelena Kononova , Russian football player († 2014 )
- August 17 : Christian Laettner , American basketball player
- August 17th : Massimo Strazzer , Italian cyclist
- August 19 : Olapade Adeniken , Nigerian sprinter
- August 25 : Enrico Poitschke , German cyclist
- August 26 : Nicole Arendt , American tennis player
- August 30 : Vladimir Jugović , Serbian football player
- August 31 : Justo Ruiz , Andorran football player
September
- September 1st : Enric Masip , Spanish handball player and official
- September 3 : Jörg Müller , German automobile racing driver
- September 4th : Alex Hicks , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 8 : Eusebio Di Francesco , Italian football player and coach
- September 11 : Leonardo Ramos , Uruguayan football player and coach
- September 12 : Ángel Cabrera , Argentine professional golfer
- September 12 : Mika Myllylä , Finnish cross-country skier († 2011 )
- September 13 : Daniel Fonseca , Uruguayan soccer player
- September 13 : Shane Warne , Australian cricketer
- September 14th : Francesco Antonioli , Italian football goalkeeper
- September 14th : Grigory Serper , American chess player
- September 15 : Revas Arveladze , Georgian football player
- September 17th : Ken Doherty , Irish snooker player
- September 17th : Bismarck Barreto Faria , Brazilian soccer player
- September 18 : Juha Ahokas , Finnish wrestler
- September 18 : Nezha Bidouane , Moroccan athlete
- September 19 : Jan "Fege" Fegter , German handball player
- September 20th : Emiliano González , Andorran football player
- September 22nd : Junko Asari , Japanese marathon runner
- September 22nd : Nicole Bradtke , Australian tennis player
- September 22nd : Daniela Georgiewa , Bulgarian sprinter
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- September 22nd : Pawel Kolobkow , Russian sword fencer and Olympic champion 2000
- September 23 : Tapio Laukkanen , Finnish rally driver
- September 23 : Michael Rich , German racing cyclist
- September 24 : Hussain Ghulum Abbas , United Arab Emirates football player
- September 24th : Miyoko Asahina , Japanese long-distance runner
- September 27 : Claudia Mandrysch , German soccer player
- September 29 : Jürgen Oelschläger , German motorcycle racer († 2004 )
- September 29 : Ivica Vastić , Austrian football player
October
- October 1st : Marcus Stephen , Nauruan weightlifter and Member of Parliament
- October 2nd : Peter Gerfen , German handball trainer and handball player
- October 3rd : Massimiliano Papis , Italian racing driver
- October 3 : Gerhard Schebler , German chess player
- October 6 : Byron Black , Zimbabwean tennis player
- October 6th : Peter Sippel , German soccer referee
- October 10 : Brett Favre , American football player
- October 10 : Robert Quiroga , American boxer († 2004 )
- October 11th : Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova , Ukrainian athlete
- October 12 : Cary Mullen , Canadian ski racer
- October 13 : Andrei Buschkow , Russian figure skater
- October 14 : Karsten Baumann , German soccer player
- October 14 : PJ Brown , American basketball player
- October 15th : Vítor Baía , Portuguese football player
- October 15th : Markus Freiherr von Rotberg , German soccer player
- October 16 : Reinhold Daschner , German soccer player
- October 17 : Ernie Els , South African golfer
- October 19 : Dieter Thoma , German ski jumper
- October 20th : Guillermo Pérez Roldán , Argentine tennis player
- October 21 : Dariusz Adamczuk , Polish football player
- October 21 : Richard Balandras , French racing car driver
- October 21 : Lucio Cecchinello , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 21 : Richard Esponda , Uruguayan boxer
- October 23 : Christian Schwarzer , German handball player
- October 25 : Simone Koch , German figure skater
- October 25 : Oleg Salenko , Russian football player
- October 27 : Michael Tarnat , German soccer player
- October 30 : Ilija Gruew , Bulgarian football player and coach
- October 31 : Dieter Ramusch , Austrian soccer player
November
- November 3rd : Fabio Babini , Italian racing driver
- November 4th : Jan Apell , Swedish tennis player
- November 4th : Alexander Moskalenko , Russian trampoline gymnast and Olympic champion
- November 10 : Faustino Asprilla , Colombian soccer player
- November 10 : Bruce Goodin , New Zealand show jumper
- November 10 : Jens Lehmann , German soccer player
- November 12th : Harry Attison , football referee from Vanuatu
- November 14 : Greg Andrusak , Canadian ice hockey player
- November 15th : Harry Koch , German soccer player
- November 19 : Philippe Adams , Belgian racing driver
- November 19 : Richard virusesque , French cyclist
- November 20 : Wolfgang Stark , German football referee
- November 22nd : Katrin Krabbe , German short-distance runner
- November 23 : Olivier Beretta , Monaco racing car driver
- November 23 : Byron Moreno , Ecuadorian football referee
- November 24th : Robert Andersson , Swedish handball player and coach
- November 26 : Shawn Kemp , American basketball player
- November 28th : Sonia O'Sullivan , Irish athlete
- November 29 : Kasey Keller , American soccer player
- November 30th : Tomas Axnér , Swedish handball player
- November 30th : Marc Goossens , Belgian racing driver
December
- December 3 : Halvard Hanevold , Norwegian biathlete
- December 5th : Ramón Ramírez , Mexican soccer player
- December 6th : Christophe Agnolutto , French cyclist
- December 6th : Jörg Heinrich , German soccer player
- December 8 : Bernd Hollerbach , German football player
- December 9th : Horst Heldt , German football player and official
- December 9th : Bixente Lizarazu , French football player
- December 10 : Rob Blake , Canadian ice hockey player
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- December 11th : Viswanathan Anand , Indian chess player
- December 11th : Asanowaka Takehiko , Japanese sumo wrestler
- December 12th : Michael Möllenbeck , German athlete
- December 13th : Dragan Adžić , Montenegrin handball player and coach
- December 13 : Sergei Fyodorov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 15 : Peter Müller , German soccer player
- December 16 : Henning Bürger , German soccer player
- December 16 : Michelle Smith , Irish swimmer
- December 17th : Inna Lassowskaja , Russian triple jumper
- December 17 : Scott Player , American football player
- December 18 : Santiago Cañizares , Spanish football player
- December 18th : Christophe Tinseau , French racing driver
- December 19th : Lucilla Andreucci , Italian long distance runner
- December 20 : Michael Fellmann , German sailor
- December 20th : Serhiy Holubyzkyj , Ukrainian fencer
- December 22nd : Myriam Bédard , Canadian biathlete and two-time Olympic champion
- December 22nd : Dagmar Hase , German swimmer
- December 22nd : Martin Schmidt , German handball player
- December 23 : John Bickerton , English professional golfer on the European Tour
- December 23 : Angelika Neuner , Austrian toboggan athlete
- December 23 : Günter Perl , German football referee
- December 24th : Milan Blagojevic , Australian soccer player
- December 24th : Leavander Johnson , American professional boxer († 2005 )
- December 26th : Thomas Linke , German soccer player
- December 29th : Allan McNish , Scottish racing car driver
- December 30th : Emmanuel Clérico , French racing car driver
- December 30th : Jens Eriksen , Danish badminton player
Died
January to March
- January 8 : Albert Hill , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1889 )
- January 19 : Carlo Salamano , Italian racing driver (* 1890 )
- January 20 : Ilse Thouret , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver, athlete and sports journalist (* 1897 )
- January 28th : Louis Villeneuve , French racing car driver (* 1889 )
- February 18 : Gisela Arendt , German swimmer (* 1918 )
- March 3 : Fred Alexander , American tennis player (* 1880 )
- March 30th : Lucien Bianchi , Belgian racing driver and Le Mans winner (* 1934 )
April to June
- April 4 : Alphonse Auclair , French racing car driver (* 1898 )
- May 6th : Lajos Czeizler , Hungarian football coach (* 1893 )
- May 11 : Jim Bowdoin , American football player (born 1904 )
- May 24th : Hans Weber , German motor sportsman (* 1941 )
- June 4th : Rafael Osuna , Mexican tennis player (* 1938 )
- June 16 : Walter Risse , German football player (* 1893 )
- June 21 : Maureen Connolly , American tennis player (born 1934 )
- June 23 : Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish athlete, two-time Olympic champion (* 1907 )
July to September
- July 12 : Bill Ivy , British motorcycle racer (* 1942 )
- July 16 : Max Gablonsky , German soccer player and athlete (* 1890 )
- July 19 : Carl Jörns , German automobile racing driver (* 1875 )
- July 26 : Léon Dernier , Belgian racing driver (* 1912 )
- July 27 : Moisés Solana , Mexican racing driver (* 1935 )
- August 1st : Gerhard Mitter , German racing driver (* 1935 )
- August 20 : Marty Barry , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1904 )
- August 31 : Rocky Marciano , American boxer (born 1923 )
- September 2 : Willy Mairesse , Belgian racing driver (* 1928 )
- September 6 : Arthur Friedenreich , Brazilian soccer player (* 1892 )
October to December
- October 1 : Gunnar Andersson , Swedish football player (* 1928 )
- October 7th : Léon Scieur , Belgian cyclist and winner of the Tour de France 1921 (* 1888 )
- October 9 : Elsa Rendschmidt , German figure skater (* 1886 )
- October 12 : Sonja Henie , Norwegian figure skater (* 1912 )
- October 13 : Pierre Meyrat , French racing driver (* 1916 )
- November 9 : Clifford Gray , American bobsledder (* 1892 )
- November 14 : Fanny Rosenfeld , Canadian athlete and Olympic champion (* around 1904 )
- November 27 : László Székely , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1910 )
- December 18 : Charles Dvorak , American athlete and Olympic champion 1904 (* 1878 )
- December 22nd : August Momberger , German racing car driver and engineer (* 1905 )
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- December 27 : Alexei Sokolski , Soviet chess player (* 1908 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1969 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
