Famous People Who Died In 1968
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1968. This list includes people like Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Yuri Gagarin, John Steinbeck and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, novelists, military leaders and directors who died in 1968. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Martin Luther King Jr.15 January 1929, American
Civil Rights Activist
Helen Keller27 June 1880, American
Writer, Member of Socialist Party of America,
Robert F. Kennedy20 November 1925, American
Brother of President John F. Kennedy
Yuri Gagarin09 March 1934, Russian, Russian
Soviet Cosmonaut
John Steinbeck27 February 1902, American
Author
Marcel Duchamp28 July 1887, French, American
Artist
Enid Blyton11 August 1897, British
Writer
Tallulah Bankhead31 January 1902, American
Actress
Upton Sinclair20 September 1878, American
American writer
Randolph Churchill28 May 1911, British
Journalist, Politician
Bea Benaderet04 April 1906, American
Actress
Thomas Merton31 January 1915, French, Thai, American
Writer
Frankie Lymon30 September 1942, American
Singer
Bobby Driscoll03 March 1937, American
Actor
Neal Cassady08 February 1926, American
Lev Landau22 January 1908, Russian
Physicist
Dan Duryea23 January 1907, American
Actor
Lise Meitner07 November 1878, Austrian
Physicist
Karl Barth10 May 1886, Swiss
Theologian
Otto Hahn08 March 1879, German
Chemist
Norman Thomas20 November 1884, American
Howard Florey24 September 1898, Australian
Pathologist and Pharmacologist
George Gamow04 March 1904, Russian
Physicist
Trygve Lie16 July 1896, Norwegian
First Secretary General of the U.N
Pitirim Sorokin21 January 1889, American, Russian
Sociologist
Salvatore Quasimodo20 August 1901, Italian
Author & Poet
Henry Hallett Dale09 June 1875, British
Physiologist & Pharmacologist
Robert Z. Leonard07 October 1889, American
Film Director, Actor, Producer
Jim Clark04 March 1936, British
Formula One driver, Farmer
Wes MontgomeryAmerican
Guitarist
Duke Kahanamoku24 August 1890, American
Swimmer, Surfer, Actor, Water polo player
Konstantin Rokossovsky21 December 1896, Polish, Russian
Soviet officer
Little Walter01 May 1930, American
Guitarist, Street artist, Singer, Songwriter
Tony Hancock12 May 1924, British
Comedian, Actor
Jogendra Nath Mandal29 January 1904, Pakistani
Politician
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Harold Nicolson21 November 1886, British
Horticulturist, Politician, Diplomat, Diarist,
Alice Guy-Blaché01 July 1873, French
Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter
Weegee12 June 1899, American
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
George Papandreou13 February 1888, Greek
Greek Politician
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan02 April 1902, Indian
Singer
Edna Ferber15 August 1885, American
playwright, novelist, writer,screenwriter
Stewart Menzies30 January 1890, British
Intelligence officer
Carl Theodor Dreyer03 February 1889, Danish
Film director, Screenwriter, Film editor
Robert Kennedy1925 AD
Government Official
John Heartfield19 June 1891, German
Photographer, Painter, Poster artist
Max Brod27 May 1884, Czech, Israeli
Linguist, Composer, Pianist, Novelist, Translator,
Georg von Küchler30 May 1881, German
Military commander
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst17 January 1885, German
Military personnel, Diplomat
Georgios Papandreou13 February 1888, Greek
Politician, Economist, Diplomat, Lawyer
Tsuguharu Foujita27 November 1886, French, Japanese
Painter, Artist
Herbert Read04 December 1893, British
Art historian, Poet, Writer, Philosopher,
Francis Biddle09 May 1886, American
lawyer, judge, screenwriter
Charles Becker24 November 1887, German
actor
Pio of Pietrelcina25 May 1887, Italian
Kees van Dongen26 January 1877, French
Painter
Kirill Meretskov07 June 1897, Russian
Military commander
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco03 April 1895, Italian, American
Composer, Pianist, Film score composer
Romano Guardini17 February 1885, German
Catholic priest, Writer, Theologian, University
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke24 January 1889, German
Officer
Vasily Sokolovsky21 July 1897, Russian
Military commander
Fannie Hurst18 October 1885, American
Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer
R. Norris Williams29 January 1891, American
Tennis player
Ryszard Siwiec07 March 1909, Polish
Accountant
Nat Hiken23 June 1914, American
Film director, Screenwriter, Songwriter
Alexander Gettler13 August 1883, American
Toxicologist, University teacher
Bob Jones, Sr.30 October 1883, American
Stan McCabe16 July 1910, Australian
Cricketer
Henry Beston01 June 1888, American
Writer, Children's writer
Corneille Heymans28 March 1892, Belgian
Physiologist
Howard Walter Florey24 September 1898, British
Australian pharmacologist
Douglas Horton27 July 1891, American
Protestant, Academic leader
Arthur Mitchell22 December 1883, American
U.S. Representative
Charles Reginald Jackson06 April 1903, American