Famous Deaths for December 1968
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◀ 1967 1968 1969 ▶ | ||||||
Months in 1968: January February March April May June July August September October November
Deaths 1 - 23 of 23
1st - Hugo Haas, actor/director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66
1st - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
5th - Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54
10th - Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82
10th - Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65
10th - Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
10th - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
11th - Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59
12th - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65
12th - Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies
13th - Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52
15th - Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
15th - Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
19th - Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
20th - Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84
20th - John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66
20th - Max Brod, writer, dies at 84
22nd - Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73
29th - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
Author John Steinbeck (20th)
30th - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
31st - Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85
31st - George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16
31st - Sabin V Dragoi, composer, dies at 74
