List of Famous people who died at 68

Mohammed Daoud Khan

First Name Mohammed
Last Name Khan
Born on July 18, 1909
Died on April 28, 1978 (aged 68)
Born in Afghanistan, Kabul

Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan, also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan was an Afghan statesman who served as the 5th Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and as President of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. Born into the Musahiban royal family, Khan started as a provincial governor in the 1930s and later a commander before he was chosen as prime minister in the monarchy of his first cousin, Mohammed Zahir Shah. Ten years after his resignation as prime minister, Khan overthrew the monarchy with the backing of Afghan Army officers and declared himself as the first President of the Afghan republic in 1973, renouncing his royal title.

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Corazon Soliman

First Name Corazon
Last Name Soliman
Born on January 27, 1953
Died on September 19, 2021 (aged 68)

Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman was a Filipina politician, activist and social worker who served as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development twice under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 2001 to 2005 and President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 to 2016.

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Pape Diouf

First Name Pape
Last Name Diouf
Born on December 18, 1951
Died on March 31, 2020 (aged 68)

Mababa Diouf, known as Papa Diouf or Pape Diouf,, is a Franco-Senegalese football personality who was sports journalist, agent for football players, and later president of Olympique de Marseille from 2005 to 2009.

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Michael Gudinski

First Name Michael
Last Name Gudinski
Born on August 22, 1952
Died on March 1, 2021 (aged 68)

Michael Solomon Gudinski AM was an Australian entrepreneur and businessman based in Melbourne who was a leading figure in the Australian music industry. Born and raised in Melbourne to Jewish Russian immigrants, Gudinski was mostly known for forming the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through which he signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers ranging from MacKenzie Theory, the Skyhooks, The Choirboys, Kylie Minogue, and New Zealand's Split Enz to newer artists such as Eskimo Joe, Evermore and others, forging a string of successful releases by local artists.

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Werner Liebrich

First Name Werner
Last Name Liebrich
Born on January 18, 1927
Died on March 20, 1995 (aged 68)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Werner Liebrich was a German footballer who played in the centre back position. He is notable for his role in West Germany's triumph in the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and spending his entire playing career of almost twenty years with hometown club Kaiserslautern, with whom he also briefly coached.

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Aleksei Zharkov

First Name Aleksei
Born on March 27, 1948
Died on June 5, 2016 (aged 68)
Born in Russia

Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia (1994).

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Big Daddy Graham

First Name Big
Last Name Graham
Born on May 29, 1953
Died on September 8, 2021 (aged 68)

Big Daddy Graham was a comedian, writer, actor, recording artist, and sports radio personality on 94 WIP-FM in Philadelphia.

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Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz Bolaños

José Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños Cacho
First Name Gustavo
Last Name Bolaños
Born on March 12, 1911
Died on July 15, 1979 (aged 68)
Born in Mexico, Puebla

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.

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Ed King

Edward Calhoun King
First Name Ed
Last Name King
Born on September 14, 1949
Died on August 22, 2018 (aged 68)

Edward Calhoun King was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1987 to 1996.

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Robert Preston

First Name Robert
Last Name Preston
Born on June 8, 1918
Died on March 21, 1987 (aged 68)

Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and film actor and singer of Broadway and cinema, best known and remembered for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards.

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