Famous Deaths for Year 1968

Months in Year 1968: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 292

Jan 2nd - Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies
Jan 4th - Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
Jan 5th - Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79
Jan 6th - Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81
Jan 7th - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
Jan 9th - Kokichi Tsuburaya, Jap marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide
Jan 9th - Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), dies at 90
Jan 10th - Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73
Jan 10th - Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74
Jan 10th - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85
Jan 10th - Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90
Jan 13th - Bill Masterson, NHL player for the Minnesota Northstars checked into the boards, dies two days later
Jan 14th - Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
Jan 15th - Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during a game (Jan 13), dies
Jan 15th - John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
Jan 15th - Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
Jan 15th - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
Jan 16th - Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84
Jan 17th - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
Jan 18th - Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72
Jan 18th - John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58
Jan 18th - Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69
Jan 19th - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
Jan 21st - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
Jan 22nd - Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77
Jan 25th - Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31
Jan 26th - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
Jan 26th - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
Jan 29th - Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India), dies
Jan 30th - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
Feb 1st - Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
Feb 4th - Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70
Feb 4th - Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
Feb 4th - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
Feb 5th - Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80
Feb 6th - C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85
Feb 7th - Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
Feb 7th - Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
Feb 8th - J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
Feb 9th - Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
Feb 9th - Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78
Feb 10th - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79
Feb 11th - Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
Feb 13th - Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87
Feb 13th - Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
Feb 15th - Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37
Feb 16th - Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87
Feb 17th - Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65
Feb 18th - Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79
Feb 19th - Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
Feb 19th - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
Feb 20th - Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65
Pathologist and Nobel Laureate Howard Florey (Feb 21st) Feb 21st - Howard Florey, pharmacologist/Pathologist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 69
Feb 22nd - Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71
Feb 22nd - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
Feb 23rd - Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
Feb 25th - Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
Feb 26th - Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55
Feb 27th - Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85
Feb 27th - Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46
Feb 27th - Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer (The Teenagers), dies at 25 of a heroin overdose
Feb 28th - Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41
Feb 28th - Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66
Feb 29th - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
Mar 1st - G v d Vring, writer, dies
Mar 1st - Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
Mar 4th - Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84
Mar 6th - Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63
Mar 6th - Joseph Martin Jr, Speaker of the House, dies at 83
Mar 7th - Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31
Mar 10th - Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47
Mar 14th - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies
Mar 16th - June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
Mar 16th - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72
Mar 18th - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85
Mar 20th - Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
Mar 23rd - Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49
Mar 24th - Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
Mar 24th - Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
Mar 24th - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
Mar 25th - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
Cosmonaut & First Man in Space Yuri Gagarin (Mar 27th) Mar 27th - Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
Mar 30th - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
Mar 31st - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
Apr 1st - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
Apr 4th - Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39
Apr 5th - Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44
Apr 6th - Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death
Apr 7th - Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
Apr 10th - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
Apr 12th - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899)
Apr 14th - Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
Apr 15th - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73
Apr 16th - Edna Ferber, American author (American Beauty), dies at 82
Apr 16th - Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
Apr 17th - Margaret Seddon, dies at 95
Clergyman and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, (Apr 4th) Apr 19th - Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
Apr 20th - Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81
Apr 21st - Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
Apr 21st - Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
Apr 22nd - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
Apr 24th - Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
Apr 24th - Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45
Apr 25th - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
May 1st - Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71
May 1st - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895)
May 2nd - Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
May 3rd - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86
May 5th - Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62
May 7th - Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
May 9th - Finlay Currie, dies at 90
May 9th - Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
May 9th - Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
May 9th - Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58
May 9th - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
May 10th - Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
May 10th - Philippa Bevans, dies at 55
May 10th - Scotty Beckett, dies at 38
May 14th - Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
May 20th - Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
May 20th - Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91
May 21st - Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
May 23rd - James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81
May 23rd - Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
May 24th - Bernard Rogers, composer (Warrior, Passion), dies at 75
May 25th - Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
May 26th - William E "Little Willie" John, US R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30)
May 27th - Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30
May 28th - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
Author Helen Keller (Jun 1st) Jun 1st - Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
Jun 1st - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
Jun 2nd - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
Jun 4th - Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70
Jun 6th - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
Jun 6th - Robert Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42
Jun 6th - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
Jun 7th - Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60
Jun 9th - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
Jun 10th - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
Jun 12th - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
Jun 14th - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51
Jun 14th - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66
Jun 15th - Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88
Jun 15th - Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48
Author/Poet Salvatore Quasimodo (Jun 14th) Jun 17th - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
Jun 19th - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
Jun 21st - Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
Jun 25th - Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43
Jun 27th - Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies
Jun 29th - Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66