List of Famous people who died at 68

Rudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born inventor, physicist and architect, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT).

Manfred Durniok was a German film producer, director and screenwriter. He produced 27 films between 1961 and 2003. He was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival in 1970.

Heinz Kähler was an ancient art historian and archaeologist.

Ennio De Giorgi was an Italian mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics.

Charles Willard Moore was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991. He is often labeled as the father of "postmodernism." His status as an educator was important for a generation of American architects who read his books or studied with him at one of several universities.