In the year 1968
498 Notable deaths
Deendayal Upadhyaya
Rss thinker and co-founder of the political party bharatiya jana sangh.
Born September 25th, 1916 in Mathura district.
Died February 11th, 1968 at 51 years old in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.
Charles Chaplin
American actor (1925-1968).
Born May 5th, 1925 in Beverly Hills.
Died March 20th, 1968 at 42 years old in Hollywood (pulmonary embolism).
Neal Cassady
American writer (1926–1968).
Born February 8th, 1926 in Salt Lake City.
Died February 4th, 1968 at 41 years old in San Miguel de Allende (kidney failure, hypothermia).
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968).
Born December 5th, 1886 in De Smet.
Died October 30th, 1968 at 81 years old in Danbury (diabetes).
Nick Adams
American actor and screenwriter (1931-1968).
Born July 10th, 1931 in Nanticoke. [ref]
Died February 7th, 1968 at 36 years old in Beverly Hills (drug overdose). [ref]
Lise Meitner
Austrian-swedish physicist.
Born November 17th, 1878 in Vienna. [ref]
Died October 27th, 1968 at 89 years old in Cambridge.
Franchot Tone
American stage and film actor (1905-1968).
Born February 27th, 1905 in Niagara Falls. [ref]
Died September 18th, 1968 at 63 years old in New York City (lung cancer).
Dan Duryea
American actor (1907–1968).
Born January 23rd, 1907 in White Plains.
Died June 8th, 1968 at 61 years old in Hollywood (cancer).
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968).
Born January 22nd, 1908 in Baku.
Died April 1st, 1968 at 60 years old in Moscow (intestinal disease). [ref]
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Soviet and polish military commander (1896-1968).
Born December 21st, 1896 in Cieliachany. [ref]
Died August 3rd, 1968 at 71 years old in Moscow (cancer).
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot