March 25, 1969

1969George Chlitsios, Greek conductor and composer^[†]

George Chlitsios is a Greek conductor and composer.

1969Dale Davis, American basketball player^[†]

Elliott Lydell "Dale" Davis is an American former professional basketball player who played center and power forward.

1969Cathy Dennis, English singer-songwriter, record producer and actress^[†]

Catherine Roseanne Dennis is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. She was discovered as a teenager by music manager Simon Fuller, which led to her featuring on the hit dance single "C'mon and Get My Love" with D Mob in 1989.

1969Jeffrey Walker, English singer-songwriter and bass player^[†]

Jeffrey Walker is an English musician, best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of extreme metal band Carcass, for which he is also serves as the primary lyricist. Before Carcass, he played in English thrashcore band Electro Hippies as guitarist and vocalist. After the initial demise of Carcass, he went on to form hard rock band Blackstar with two former Carcass bandmates, and joined American grindcore supergroup, Brujeria. Loudwire placed him at number 22 on their list of Top 25 Extreme Metal Vocalists.

1969Billy Cotton, English singer, drummer, and bandleader (born 1899)^[†]

William Edward Cotton was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, but his musical career had begun in the 1920s. In his younger years, Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer for Brentford, an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth, which he piloted himself. His autobiography, I Did It My Way, was published in 1970, a year after his death.

1969Max Eastman, American poet and activist (born 1883)^[†]

Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.