Celebrity Deaths in 1968
102 notable figures died in 1968. Listed below in order of date of death.
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Brooks Benedict
1896 – 1968 · Actors Jan 1 -
Ed Cassidy
1893 – 1968 · Actors Jan 1 -
John Davidson
1886 – 1968 · Actors Jan 1 -
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Leonard Foujita
1886 – 1968 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
Robert Bice
1914 – 1968 · Actors Jan 1 -
Robert Wood Johnson, II
1893 – 1968 Jan 1 -
Barbara Mary Everest
1890 – 1968 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Edwin Baker
1897 – 1968 · Actors Feb 2 -
Juanita Long Hall
1901 – 1968 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Peter Arno
1904 – 1968 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
Walter J. Biggs
1886 – 1968 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
William Gerhard Mennen
1884 – 1968 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
Neal Cassady
1926 – 1968 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Feb 4 -
Nick Adams
1931 – 1968 · Actors Feb 7 -
Mae Marsh
1894 – 1968 · Actresses Feb 13 -
Anthony Asquith
1902 – 1968 · Director, Film Director Feb 20 -
Howard Florey
1898 – 1968 · Politicians Feb 21 -
Juanita Hall
1901 – 1968 · Actresses, Singer, Theater Actor Feb 28 -
Blanche Mehaffey
1908 – 1968 · Actresses Mar 3 -
Bobby Driscoll
1937 – 1968 · Actors Mar 3 -
Douglas Evans
1904 – 1968 · Actors Mar 3 -
Helen Walker
1920 – 1968 · Actresses Mar 3 -
Ralph Chambers
1892 – 1968 · Actors Mar 3 -
June Collyer
1906 – 1968 · Actresses Mar 16 -
Carl Theodor Dreyer
1889 – 1968 · Celebrities, Film Director Mar 20 -
Yuri Gagarin
1934 – 1968 · Politicians Mar 27 -
Lev Landau
1908 – 1968 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 1 -
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John Heartfield
1891 – 1968 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
Margaret Seddon
1872 – 1968 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Martin Luther King Jr
1929 – 1968 · Politicians Apr 4 -
Lois Andrews
1924 – 1968 · Actresses Apr 5 -
Jim Clark
1936 – 1968 · Actors, Celebrities Apr 7 -
Iris Tree
1897 – 1968 · Actresses, Model, Poet Apr 13 -
Edna Ferber
1885 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Apr 16 -
Tommy Noonan
1921 – 1968 · Actors Apr 24 -
Jack Adams
1894 – 1968 · Athletes, Sports Figures May 1 -
Albert Dekker
1905 – 1968 · Actors, Politicians May 5 -
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Harold Lincoln Gray
1894 – 1968 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
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Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace
1926 – 1968 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 5 -
Phil Arnold
1909 – 1968 · Actors May 5 -
George Dewey Hay
1895 – 1968 · Founder, Radio Performers May 8 -
Finlay Currie
1878 – 1968 · Actors May 9 -
Marion Lorne
1883 – 1968 · Actresses May 9 -
Scotty Beckett
1929 – 1968 · Actors May 10 -
Doris Lloyd
1896 – 1968 · Actresses May 21 -
Helen Keller
1880 – 1968 · Authors and Writers, Social Reformers, Suffragists Jun 1 -
Dorothy Gish
1898 – 1968 · Actresses Jun 4 -
Dan Duryea
1907 – 1968 · Actors Jun 6 -
Harry Cheshire
1891 – 1968 · Actors Jun 6 -
John Gough
1894 – 1968 · Actors Jun 6 -
Robert F. Kennedy
1925 – 1968 · Politicians Jun 6 -
Robert Kennedy
1925 – 1968 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers, Senator Jun 6 -
Ernest Stoneman
1893 – 1968 · Country Music Jun 14 -
Wes Montgomery
1923 – 1968 · Musicians and Composers Jun 15 -
Alexander Engel
1902 – 1968 · Actors Jul 7 -
Edgar Monsanto Queeny
1897 – 1968 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
Virginia Weidler
1927 – 1968 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Joseph Keilberth
1908 – 1968 · Musicians and Composers Jul 20 -
Babe Adams
1882 – 1968 · Athletes, Sports Figures Jul 27 -
Lilian Harvey
1906 – 1968 · Actresses Jul 27 -
Nick Castle
1910 – 1968 · Actors Aug 8 -
Rodney Mabrey Bell
1915 – 1968 · Actors Aug 8 -
Tom May
1883 – 1968 · Business Magnates Aug 8 -
William Metcalf
1894 – 1968 · Military Figures Aug 8 -
George Gamow
1904 – 1968 · Scientists and Inventors Aug 19 -
Kay Francis
1905 – 1968 · Actresses Aug 26 -
William Talman
1915 – 1968 · Actors Aug 30 -
Beth Lockerbie
1915 – 1968 · Actresses Sep 9 -
Dudley H. Dickerson
1906 – 1968 · Actors Sep 9 -
Georgia Cooper
1882 – 1968 · Actresses Sep 9 -
Tommy Armour
1895 – 1968 · Golfer, Sports Figures Sep 9 -
Red Foley
1910 – 1968 · Country Music Sep 19 -
Cornell Woolrich
1903 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Sep 25 -
Jay Dratler
1911 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Sep 25 -
Bea Benaderet
1906 – 1968 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Eleanor Edwards
1884 – 1968 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Freddie Frinton
1911 – 1968 · Actors Oct 10 -
Harvey Fruehauf
1893 – 1968 Oct 10 -
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Marcel Duchamp
1887 – 1968 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
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Michael A. Musmanno
1897 – 1968 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10 -
Lise Meitner
1878 – 1968 · Scientists and Inventors Oct 27 -
Pert Kelton
1907 – 1968 · Actresses Oct 30 -
Wendell Corey
1914 – 1968 · Actors Nov 8 -
Enid Blyton
1898 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Nov 11 -
Estelle Hemsley
1887 – 1968 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Mireille Balin
1909 – 1968 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Walter Wagner
1894 – 1968 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Nov 18 -
Paul Siple
1908 – 1968 · Explorers and Adventurers Nov 25 -
Upton Sinclair
1878 – 1968 · Politicians Nov 25 -
Enid Blyton
1897 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Nov 28 -
Fred Clark
1914 – 1968 · Actors Dec 5 -
Eduardo Cansino
1895 – 1968 · Actors Dec 12 -
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Mabel Lillian Rea
1932 – 1968 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Mabel Rea
1932 – 1968 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Marguerite F Bertrandias
1891 – 1968 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Max Brod
1884 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Paul Hyde Bonner
1893 – 1968 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Tallulah Bankhead
1902 – 1968 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Dorothy Abbott
1920 – 1968 · Actresses Dec 15 -
Jess Willard
1881 – 1968 · Boxers Dec 15 -
Trygve Lie
1896 – 1968 · Politicians Dec 30 -
Vera Fuller Mellish
1901 – 1968 · Actresses