List of Famous people who died at 68

Louis Pinton was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Indre department. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Lucien Rebatet was a French author, journalist, and intellectual. He is known as an exponent of fascism and virulent antisemite but also as the author of Les Deux étendards, regarded by some as one of the greatest novels of the post-war era.

Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She was awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets and won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. A play Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.

Stanley Greene was an American photojournalist.

Margrit Rainer born as Margrit Rosa Sandmeier was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Bruno Coquatrix was a French music producer, the owner and manager of the Olympia Hall in Paris from 1954 until his death in 1979.

Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin was a Russian mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1984).

Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor.

Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983).

Ingolf Gorges (1940–2008) was a German stage, film and television actor. Based in East Germany, he appeared in a number of DEFA films during the 1960s.