1968 deaths

The list 1968 deaths includes Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Keller, Kay Francis, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. The list consists of 5,230 members and 3 sublists.

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1968

Calendar year

1968 suicides
46T
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1968 murders
3L, 2T
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- Murder of Roy Tutill
- Monster of Florence
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1968
15T
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Tallulah Bankhead

American, Actress

Overview: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was a member of the Brockman Bankhead family, a prominent Alabama political ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1902

Date of death: 12 December 1968

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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American bisexual actresses 158T

American bisexual women 291T

American women autobiographers 199T
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Helen Keller

American author and activist

Overview: Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after ...

Date of birth: 27 June 1880

Date of death: 1 June 1968

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century memoirists 804T

American women memoirists 620T

Connecticut socialists 3T
3.

Kay Francis

American actress (1905–1968)

Overview: Katherine Edwina "Kay" Francis (née Gibbs, January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved ...

Date of birth: 13 January 1905

Date of death: 26 August 1968

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Hollywood Walk of Fame 369T

People with speech impediment 48T

Actresses from Oklahoma City 29T
4.

Martin Luther King

Political activist

Overview: Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until ...

Date of birth: 15 January 1929

Date of death: 4 April 1968

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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World Constitutional Convention call signatories 102T

People involved with the civil rights movement 27T

Political prisoners in the United States 21T
5.

Robert F. Kennedy

American politician and lawyer (1925–1968)

Overview: Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th ...

Date of birth: 20 November 1925

Date of death: 6 June 1968

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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American nonviolence advocates 145T

1960s assassinated American politicians 3T

Assassinated United States Senate members and candidates 3T
6.

Frankie Lymon

American singer (1942–1968)

Overview: Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968) was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York Cit ...

Date of birth: 30 September 1942

Date of death: 28 February 1968

Age: 25 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

20th-century male singers 5,297T

Burials at Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx) 32T
7.

Mercedes de Acosta

20th-century American poet, playwright, and novelist (1892–1968)

Overview: Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, chiefly notable as a social figure of Manhattan, conducting openly lesbian relationships with many prominent artists and theatre personalities ...

Date of birth: 1 March 1893

Date of death: 9 May 1968

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
8.

Ramon Novarro

Actor

Overview: José Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 ...

Date of birth: 6 February 1899

Date of death: 30 October 1968

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Mexican

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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LGBT actors from Mexico 25T

American gay actors 617T

20th-century LGBT people 3,272T
9.

Scotty Beckett

Actor

Overview: Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.

Date of birth: 4 October 1929

Date of death: 10 May 1968

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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1968 suicides 39T

American male actors who committed suicide 118T

Male actors from Oakland, California 56T
10.

Nick Adams

American actor, screenwriter (1931–1968)

Overview: Nick Adams (born Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock, July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968) was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during ...

Date of birth: 10 July 1931

Date of death: 7 February 1968

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century American screenwriters 2,110T

American male television writers 2,169T

United States Coast Guard enlisted 120T
11.

Joan Tabor

American actor

Overview: Joan Tabor (September 16, 1932 – December 18, 1968) was an American film and television actress.

Date of birth: 16 September 1932

Date of death: 18 December 1968

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Los Angeles 1,304T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T

American television actresses 7,677T
12.

Franchot Tone

Actor

Overview: Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s ...

Date of birth: 27 February 1905

Date of death: 18 September 1968

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Male actors of English descent 380T

Film producers from New York (state) 581T
13.

Enoch L. Johnson

American mobster

Overview: Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson (January 20, 1883 – December 9, 1968) was an Atlantic City, New Jersey, political boss; a sheriff of Atlantic County, New Jersey; a businessman; and a crime boss who ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1883

Date of death: 9 December 1968

Age: 85 (age at death)

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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American bootleggers 37T

Politicians from Atlantic City, New Jersey 22T

New Jersey politicians convicted of crimes 51T
14.

Mireille Balin

French actor

Overview: Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin 20 July 1909 in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Clichy, France) was a French-Italian actress. Considered one of the finest actresses ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1909

Date of death: 9 November 1968

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century French actresses 730T

French film actresses 1,170T

French actresses 348T
15.

Helen Walker

American actor

Overview: Helen Walker (July 17, 1920 – March 10, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.

Date of birth: 17 July 1920

Date of death: 10 March 1968

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Worcester, Massachusetts 12T

Actors from Worcester, Massachusetts 29T

Actresses from Massachusetts 176T
16.

Kitty Kelly

American actress (1902–1968)

Overview: Kitty Kelly (born Sue O'Neil, April 27, 1902 – June 29, 1968), was an American stage and film character actress.

Date of birth: 27 April 1902

Date of death: 28 June 1968

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

20th-century American singers 5,176T

Actresses from New York 471T
17.

Charles K. Feldman

American attorney, film producer and talent agent

Overview: Charles K. Feldman (April 26, 1905 – May 25, 1968) was a Hollywood attorney, film producer and talent agent who founded the Famous Artists talent agency. According to one obituary, Feldman disdained p ...

Date of birth: 26 April 1904

Date of death: 25 May 1968

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Female

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Film producers from New York (state) 581T

Lawyers from New York City 662T

20th-century American lawyers 5,617T
18.

Bobby Driscoll

American actor (1937–1968)

Overview: Robert Cletus Driscoll (March 3, 1937 – circa March 30, 1968) was an American child actor and artist, known for his film and TV performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney S ...

Date of birth: 3 March 1937

Date of death: 30 March 1968

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

People associated with The Factory 56T

Actors from Cedar Rapids, Iowa 14T
19.

Wes Montgomery

Jazz Musician

Overview: John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. One of the most influential guitarists of the twentieth century, Montgomery was known for an unusual technique ...

Date of birth: 6 March 1925

Date of death: 15 June 1968

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Jazz Musician

Gender: Male

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CTI Records artists 69T

Montgomery Brothers members 3T

Guitarists from Indiana 58T
20.

Sally O'Neil

Actor

Overview: Sally O'Neil (born Virginia Louise Concepta Noonan, October 23, 1908 – June 18, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1920s. She appeared in more than 40 films, often with her name above the ...

Date of birth: 23 October 1908

Date of death: 18 June 1968

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Deaths from pneumonia in Illinois 73T

WAMPAS Baby Stars 142T

Actors from Bayonne, New Jersey 17T