1969 in England
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Events from 1969 in England:
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
- 21 September – Police evicts squatters of the London Street Commune from 144 Piccadilly
- 26 September – The Beatles release their Abbey Road album which is an enormous commercial success and, although receiving mixed reviews at this time, comes to be viewed by many as the group's best.
October
November
- 19 November – Ken Loach's film Kes is released at the London Film Festival.
December
Births
- 15 October – Dominic West, actor
- 19 December – Richard Hammond, English TV presenter
Deaths
January – June
- 4 January – Violet and Daisy Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (born 1908)
- 8 January – Albert Hill, British athlete (born 1889)
- 11 January – Richmal Crompton, fiction writer (born 1890)
- 2 February – Boris Karloff, English actor (born 1887)
- 11 March – John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (born 1903)[1]
- 4 May – Sir Osbert Sitwell, English writer (born 1892)
- 23 May – Sir Owen Williams, civil engineer (born 1890)
July – December
- 3 July – Brian Jones, British musician (The Rolling Stones) (born 1942)
- 9 August – Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
- 27 August – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (born 1884)
- 5 December – Princess Alice of Battenberg, wife of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1885)
- 7 December – Eric Portman, actor (born 1901)
See also
References
- ↑ Seed, David (9 June 2008). A Companion to Science Fiction. John Wiley & Sons. p. 387. ISBN 978-0-470-79701-3. Search this book on
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