Famous People Who Died at Age 69

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Bowie, David (died of cancer at 69 years 2 days on January 10, 2016)

• Whistler, James McNeill (natural causes at 69 years 6 days on July 17, 1903)

• Sukarno (at 69 years 15 days on June 21, 1970)

• Hurston, Zora Neale (at 69 years 21 days on January 28, 1960)

• Farragut, David Glasgow (at 69 years 40 days on August 14, 1870)

• Knievel, Evel (at 69 years 44 days on November 30, 2007)

• Arendt, Hannah (at 69 years 51 days on December 4, 1975)

• Tyler, Julia Gardiner (at 69 years 67 days on July 10, 1889)

• Neruda, Pablo (died of cancer at 69 years 73 days on September 23, 1973)

• Pope Julius II (at 69 years 78 days on February 21, 1513)

• hooks, bell (at 69 years 81 days on December 15, 2021)

• Ramis, Harold (at 69 years 95 days on February 24, 2014)

• Slayton, Donald K. "Deke" (died of cancer at 69 years 104 days on June 13, 1993)

• Duke, Patty (at 69 years 106 days on March 29, 2016)

• Huxley, Aldous (died of cancer at 69 years 119 days on November 22, 1963)

• Unitas, Johnny (died of heart failure at 69 years 127 days on September 11, 2002)

• Gaddafi, Muammar (was killed in battle at 69 years 135 days on October 20, 2011)

• Pitts, Zasu (died of cancer at 69 years 155 days on June 7, 1963)

• Pirandello, Luigi (at 69 years 165 days on December 10, 1936)

• Ryan, Irene (died of a stroke at 69 years 191 days on April 26, 1973)

• Queen Elizabeth I (at 69 years 198 days on March 24, 1603)

• Kidder, Margot (at 69 years 208 days on May 13, 2018)

• Walsh, Stella (was shot to death at 69 years 245 days on December 4, 1980)

• Hussein, Saddam (was executed by hanging at 69 years 246 days on December 30, 2006)

• Blake, William (at 69 years 257 days on August 12, 1827)

• Wagner, Richard (at 69 years 267 days on February 13, 1883)

• Arnaz, Desi (died of lung cancer at 69 years 275 days on December 2, 1986)

• Feynman, Richard (died of complications from cancer at 69 years 280 days on February 15, 1988)

• Hoover, Lou Henry (at 69 years 284 days on January 7, 1944)

• Birdseye, Clarence (died of a heart attack at 69 years 303 days on October 7, 1956)

• Vinton, Will (died of multiple myeloma at 69 years 321 days on October 4, 2018)

• Rickman, Alan (died of cancer at 69 years 327 days on January 14, 2016)

• Armstrong, Louis (died of a heart attack at 69 years 336 days on July 6, 1971)

• Adamson, Joy (was stabbed to death at 69 years 348 days on January 3, 1980)

• Rachmaninoff, Sergei (melanoma at 69 years 361 days on March 28, 1943)

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