Dead at age 68
1,189 Notable deaths
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician.
Born July 3rd, 1897 in New York City.
Died October 7th, 1965 at 68 years old in New York City. [ref]
Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach
German politician (1875-1943).
Born February 9th, 1875 in Wahn.
Died August 25th, 1943 at 68 years old in Linz am Rhein.
F. M. Cornford
British classical scholar (1874–1943).
Born February 27th, 1874 in Eastbourne.
Died January 3rd, 1943 at 68 years old in Cambridge.
Iosif Shklovsky
Soviet astronomer.
Born July 1st, 1916 in Hlukhiv.
Died March 3rd, 1985 at 68 years old in Moscow.
Grigori Kozintsev
Soviet film director (1905-1973).
Born March 23rd, 1905 in Kyiv.
Died May 11th, 1973 at 68 years old in Saint Petersburg. [ref]
Ernst Wollweber
East german stasi officer (1898-1967).
Born October 29th, 1898 in Hann. Münden.
Died May 3rd, 1967 at 68 years old in East Berlin.
Henry Butler
American musical artist (1949–2018).
Born September 21st, 1949 in New Orleans.
Died July 2nd, 2018 at 68 years old in New York City (brain cancer).
Umberto Cassuto
Italian rabbi and scholar (1883-1951).
Born September 16th, 1883 in Florence.
Died December 18th, 1951 at 68 years old in Jerusalem.
Naif bin Abdullah
Younger son of king abdullah i of jordan (1914–1983).
Born November 14th, 1914 in Ta'if.
Died October 12th, 1983 at 68 years old in Amman.
Nini Rosso
Italian recording artist, trumpet player, singer, songwriter (1926–1994).
Born September 19th, 1926 in San Michele Mondovì.
Died October 5th, 1994 at 68 years old in Rome (lung cancer).
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel