page_title: 1969
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1969 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Español: Francisco J. Orlich, Presidente de Costa Rica 1962-1966
context_page_description: 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini 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.
  The year is associated with the first manned landing on the Moon, the creation of the internet, and the commencement of the LGBT Rights Movement.
context_section_description: October 3 – Skip James, American blues singer (b. 1902)
  October 4 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
  October 6 – Walter Hagen, American golf champion (b. 1892)
  October 7
  Natalya Lisenko, Russian actress (b. 1884)
  Johnnie Morris, American actor (b. 1887)
  October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, Italian actor and singer (b. 1889)
  October 9 – Mathew Kavukattu, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic archbishop and servant of God (b. 1904)
  October 12 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
  October 14
  Arnie Herber, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1910)
  August Sang, Estonian poet and literary translator (b. 1914)
  October 15 – Rod La Rocque, American actor (b. 1898)
  October 21
  Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922)
  Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
  October 29
  Paul Bailliart, French ophthalmologist (b. 1877)
  Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, British commander (b. 1893)
  Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
  Pavel Mironov, Russian general (b. 1900)
  Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, 34th President of Costa Rica (b. 1907)
  October 31 – Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador, leader of the World War II (b. 1893)
caption: Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich
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