Famous People Who Died in 1968

1968 Calendar

Deaths 1 - 200 of 314

Jan 15 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, writer (The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta (with Albert Einstein); Whom the Gods Love: The Story of Évariste Galois), and peace activist, dies at 69
Jan 16 John Davidson, American stage and silent and sound screen actor (The Bronze Bell; Dick Tracy vs Crime, Inc; Chinese Cat), dies at 81
Jan 16 Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84
Jan 17 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
Jan 18 Bert Wheeler, American vaudevillian (Wheeler & Woolsey), and comic actor (Brave Eagle; The Nitwits; Hold 'em Jail; High Flyers; Rainmakers), dies of emphysema at 72
Jan 18 John Ridgely, American actor (Northern Pursuit; They Died with Their Boots On; Air Force), dies from a heart ailment at 58
Jan 19 Ray Harroun, American auto racer (inaugural Indianapolis 500 1911; Motorsports Hall of Fame of America 2000), dies at 89
Jan 21 Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
Jan 22 Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, surfer (Olympic gold 100m freestyle 1912, 20; 4x200m freestyle relay 1920), dies of a heart attack at 77
Jan 25 Virginia Maskell, English actress (Only Two Can Play), dies after an overdose at 31
Jan 26 Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
Jan 26 Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
Jan 29 Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, Indian cricket batsman (1 Test; captain Bombay in inaugural Ranji Trophy win 1935), dies at 66
Jan 30 Tsugouharu Foujita, Japanese-French painter and printmaker, dies at 81
Feb 1 Lawson Little, American golfer (US Open 1940), dies at 57

Feb 4 Eddie Baker, American actor (A Man About Town, Collars and Cuffs), dies of emphysema at 70
Feb 4 Gerard den Brabander [Jan G Jofriet], Dutch poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
Feb 4 Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
Feb 5 (Charles Luckyth) "Luckey" Roberts, stride pianist and composer, dies at 80-ish [various sources dispute birth year, 1887 to 1895] [1]
Feb 6 C. Montague Shaw, Australian actor (Buck Rogers; Zorro's Fighting Legion), dies at 85
Feb 7 Nick Adams [Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock], American actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), dies of a drug overdose at 36
Feb 7 Stuart Foster, American singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
Feb 9 Barbara Everest, English actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
Feb 9 Frederik M. baron van Asbeck, Dutch lawyer and legal scholar (League of Nations), dies at 78
Feb 10 Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist (Social mobility), dies at 79
Feb 11 Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), dies at 78
Feb 13 Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87
Feb 13 Mae Marsh, American actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
Feb 15 Little Walter [Marion Walter Jacobs], American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player, dies as the result of a fight at 37
Feb 16 (James) Healey Willan, British-Canadian organist, composer, and educator, dies at 87

Feb 17 Donald Wolfit, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed), dies of heart ailment at 65
Feb 18 Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79
Feb 19 Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler, dies at 89
Feb 19 Ralph Dunn, American actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 67
Feb 20 Anthony Asquith, British film director (Court Martial), dies at 65

Feb 21 Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified penicillin (Nobel 1945), dies at 69

Feb 22 Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71
Feb 22 Peter Arno, American cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 64
Feb 23 Fannie Hurst, American novelist (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
Feb 25 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
Feb 26 Eric Feldary, Hungarian actor (Hold Back the Dawn, 16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55
Feb 27 Frankie Lymon, American pop singer (The Teenagers - "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"), dies of a heroin overdose at 25
Feb 27 Johannes Tralow, German writer (Ottoman tetralogy), dies at 85
Feb 27 Ludvik Podest, Czech composer, music journalist, and conductor dies at 46
Feb 28 Doretta Morrow, American actress (Because You're Mine), dies from cancer at 41
Feb 28 Juanita Hall (née Long), American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress and singer (South Pacific; Flower Drum Song), dies from complications of diabetes at 66 [some sources give date as Feb. 29]
Feb 29 Lena Blackburne, American baseball infielder, manager, coach (Chicago White Sox; discovered rubbing clay to take the shine off baseballs), dies at 81
Feb 29 Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
Mar 1 Georg von der Vring, German painter and writer (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
Mar 4 Alexandre Eugène Cellier, French organist and composer, dies at 84
Mar 6 Frans Hin, Dutch yachtsman (Olympic gold 12' Dinghy 1920; aged 14 years 163 days), dies at 62
Mar 6 Isa Krejci, Czech composer, dies at 63
Mar 6 Joseph Martin Jr., American politician (Rep-R-Massachusetts 1925-67, Speaker of the House, 1947-49, 1953-55), dies at 83
Mar 10 Helen Walker, American actress (Brewster's Million, Lucky Jordan), dies of cancer at 47
Mar 14 Erwin Panofsky, German-American Jewish art historian and iconologist (Early Netherlandish Painting), dies at 75
Mar 16 June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
Mar 16 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer, dies at 72
Mar 18 Manuel Gómez Carrillo, Argentine composer, dies at 85
Mar 20 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies at 79
Mar 23 Edwin O'Connor, American writer (The Edge of Sadness - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1962), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 49
Mar 23 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch religious sect leader, dies at 70
Mar 24 Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director who was the first woman to direct a film (The Fairy of the Cabbages), dies at 94
Mar 24 Howard Petrie, American actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
Mar 24 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
Mar 25 Douglas Evans, American actor (At War with the Army, South Pacific Trail), dies at 64

Mar 30 Bobby Driscoll, American Academy Juvenile Award-winning actor (Song Of The South; The Window), dies of heart failure at 31 [date reflects discovery of his body in a deserted NYC tenement]
Mar 31 Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
Apr 1 Lev Landau, Russian physicist (1962 Nobel Prize for Physics for superfluidity theory), dies from injuries from an earlier car accident at 60

Apr 4 American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964), assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee at 39

Apr 5 Lois Andrews [Lorraine Gourley], American actress (Dixie Dugan, Meet Me After the Show, The Desert Hawk), dies of lung cancer at 44
Apr 6 Robert "Bobby" Hutton, American Black Panther leader and treasurer, shot to death by Oakland police at 17

Apr 7 Scottish auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1965, World F1 Champion 1963, 65; 25 x F1 GP wins), dies in race accident at Hockenheim, Germany at 32

Apr 10 Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
Apr 12 Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899)
Apr 15 Borys Lyatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher, known as the father of modern Ukrainian music, dies at 73
Apr 16 Edna Ferber, American author and playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron), dies at 82
Apr 16 Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
Apr 17 Margaret Seddon, American stage and screen actress (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), dies at 95
Apr 19 Tommy Bridges, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
Apr 20 Mabel Stark, American tiger trainer "crazy Mabel", found dead after her suicide at 79
Apr 20 Marion Weeks, American silent film actress, and Ziegfield Follies singer and dancer, dies of stroke at 81
Apr 21 Norman Demuth, British composer and musicologist specializing in French works, dies at 69
Apr 22 Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (Elvis) and label executive (RCA Victor, 1929-68), dies of a heart attack at 57
Apr 24 Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
Apr 24 Tommy Noonan, American actor, screenwriter and producer (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises), dies of a brain tumor at 46
Apr 25 Walter Tewksbury, American track and field athlete (Olympics, 1920 - 2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), and dentist, dies at 92 [1]
May 1 Harold Nicolson, English diplomat and author (Good Behaviour), dies at 71
May 1 Jack Adams, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (Vancouver Millionaires, Toronto St. Patricks; Ottawa Senators) and coach / general manager (Detroit Red Wings), dies at 72 [1]
May 2 Donald L Hall, American airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
May 3 Leonid Sabaneyev, Russian composer, dies at 86
May 5 Albert Dekker, American stage and screen character actor (Dr. Cyclops; Beau Geste; The Wild Bunch), and politician, dies of accidental suffocation at 62

May 7 Lurleen Wallace, American politician (46th Governor of Alabama, 1967-68), dies at 41
May 9 Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (Quo Vadis, Avengers), dies at 90
May 9 Harold Gray, American comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
May 9 Marion Lorne [MacDougall] American stage and Emmy Award-winning screen actress (Bewitched - "Aunt Clara"; Mister Peepers - "Mrs. Gurney"; The Graduate), dies of a heart attack at 84
May 9 Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite, dies at 75
May 9 Phil Arnold, American actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees), dies from a heart attack at 58
May 10 Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
May 10 Philippa Bevans, British actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient), dies at 55
May 10 Scotty Beckett, American actor (Our Gang, Listen Darling, Battleground), dies from either an overdose, or as a result from a beating at 38
May 14 Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
May 20 Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
May 20 Kees van Dongen, Dutch-French painter (Fauves style), dies at 91
May 21 Doris Lloyd, English American actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
May 23 James Burke, American actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81
May 23 Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
May 24 Bernard Rogers, American composer (The Warrior; Three Japanese Dances; To The Fallen), and pedagogue (Eastman School, 1929-67), dies at 75
May 25 Charles K. Feldman, American producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
May 25 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal and WWII war criminal, dies at 86
May 26 William "Little Willie" John, American R&B singer ("Fever"; "Leave My Kitten Alone"), dies in prison while serving a sentence for manslaughter at 30
May 28 Corbett Davis, American football fullback (#1 overall pick NFL Draft 1938 Cleveland Rams), dies of a ruptured spleen in a boating accident at 53
May 28 Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
May 29 Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame), dies at 84

Jun 1 American political activist, author (The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, dies at 87

Jun 1 [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
Jun 2 André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (Concerto de Québec), dies at 39

Jun 2 American tennis player (US National C'ship 1914, 16; survived sinking of RMS Titanic), dies of emphysema at 77

Jun 4 Dorothy Gish [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70
Jun 6 Franklin Clark Fry, American minister (World Rad of Church), dies at 67
Jun 6 Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)

Jun 7 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at 61
Jun 9 Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
Jun 10 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, Russian composer, dies at 65
Jun 12 Fidelio Friedrich Finke, Bohemian German composer, dies at 76
Jun 14 (Ernest) "Pop" Stoneman, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and autoharp player ("Sinking of the Titanic"; The Stoneman Family), dies at 75
Jun 14 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish composer (Facettes; Aniara), dies at 51
Jun 14 Ken Errair, American pop-jazz singer (Four Freshmen, 1953-55 - "Graduation Day"), dies in a chartered plane crash at 42

Jun 15 (John) "Wes" Montgomery, American influential jazz guitarist and Grammy Award winner, dies of a heart attack at 45
Jun 15 (Patrick) "Buddy" Attaway, American country and Cajun fiddler, and songwriter ("I'm Sitting On Top Of The World"), dies at 45
Jun 15 Sam Crawford, American Baseball HOF outfielder (MLB HR leader 1901, 08; AL RBI leader 1910, 14, 15; MLB record 309 career triples; Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers), dies at 88
Jun 17 José Nasazzi, Uruguayan soccer defender (41 caps; captain FIFA World Cup 1930; CA Bella Vista 322 games), dies at 67
Jun 19 James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate, dies at 70

Jun 26 Ziggy Elman [Harry Finkelman], American big band jazz trumpeter (Benny Goodman - "And The Angels Sing"; Tommy Dorsey), bandleader, and klezmer musician, dies at 54
Jun 27 Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for South Africa), dies at 87
Jun 29 Kitty Kelly, American actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
Jun 29 Paddy Driscoll, American NFL quarterback and coach (Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears), dies at 73
Jun 30 John Gough, American actor (Smooth as Satin, In the Land of the Tortilla, Circus Kid), dies at 73
Jul 1 Virginia Weidler, American child actress (Babes on Broadway, All This & Heaven Too), dies of heart disease at 42
Jul 2 Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74
Jul 6 John Indrisano, American welterweight boxer, stunt man, and bit-part actor (O.K.. Crackerby!), dies of apparent suicide at 61

Jul 7 American crime boss, dies at 62

Jul 7 Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver dies in a crash during the French Grand Prix at Rouen at 40
Jul 7 Leo Sowerby, American organist and composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1946), dies at 73
Jul 9 Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53
Jul 9 Vardis Fisher, American writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73
Jul 14 Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (Kara-Bugaz), dies at 76
Jul 14 Westbrook Van Voorhis, American announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
Jul 15 Lura Anson, American silent film actress dies at 76
Jul 18 Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist (Nobel 1938), dies at 76
Jul 20 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies at 60
Jul 21 Ruth St. Denis, American modern dance pioneer and teacher (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
Jul 22 Giovannino Guareschi, Italian author (Don Camillo, Peppone, dies at 60
Jul 23 Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist (1938 Noble Prize for Medicine or Physiology for work on acetylcholine), dies at 93
Jul 27 Anton van Duinkerken [Willem Jan Marie Anton Asselbergs], Dutch poet and academic, dies at 65
Jul 27 Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
Jul 27 Lillian Harvey [Pape], British actress (Invitation to the Waltz; Congress Dance), dies of liver failure at 62
Jul 28 Charles William Mayo, American surgeon (Mayo Clinic), dies in a car accident on his 70th birthday
Jul 28 Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist (Nobel 1944, radiothorium/actinium), dies at 89
Jul 30 Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
Jul 31 Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66
Aug 3 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
Aug 5 Luther Perkins American country and rockabilly guitarist (The Tennessee Three), dies as a result of a house fire at 40
Aug 6 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician (Communist Party of Belgium (PCB)), dies at 60
Aug 8 Orovida Camille Pissarro, British painter and etcher, dies at 74
Aug 11 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian New Testament scholar, dies at 85
Aug 12 Esther Forbes, American novelist (Johnny Tremain), dies at 76
Aug 12 Pieter Oud, Dutch politician and Mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81
Aug 15 Edward Kilenyi, Sr. [Ede Kilényi], Hungarian-American composer and teacher (Clipped Wings; Outside the Law), dies at 84
Aug 16 (Robert) "Cutty" Cutshall, American jazz trombonist (Benny Goodman Orchestra; Eddie Condon), dies at 66
Aug 16 Luis Gianneo, Argentine pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and teacher, dies at 71
Aug 18 Arthur Marshall, American ragtime piano player and composer ("Swipesy Cakewalk" with Scott Joplin; "The Peach"), dies at 86
Aug 18 Cy Walter, American jazz pianist (Three's Company), dies of cancer at 52
Aug 19 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist (Big Bang Theory, DNA), dies at 64
Aug 19 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
Aug 20 Channing H. Cox, American politician (49th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 88

Aug 20 American HOF jockey (Triple Crown 1930 Gallant Fox; 3 x Kentucky Derby; 5 x Belmont Stakes; 1 x Preakness Stakes; 3 x US Champion Jockey by earnings; US Champion Trainer by earnings 1938), dies at 69

Aug 21 Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
Aug 24 (Edmond) "Doc" Souchon, American jazz guitarist, music journal writer and editor, and New Orleans jazz historical preservationist, dies at 70
Aug 24 Cyril Vincent, South African cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies at 66

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