List of Famous people who died at 68

James Goldstone was an American film and television director whose career spanned over thirty years.

Angelo Drossos was the owner of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team from 1973 to 1988, from its time in the American Basketball Association through the ABA-NBA merger and into its years in the National Basketball Association. Drossos received the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 1978 and was instrumental in bringing the three-point field goal to the NBA. He died at age 68 in 1997 after battling supranuclear palsy.

George Lennox Barrow (1921–1989) was a colonial administrator, Irish historian, philosopher, geographer, archaeologist, economist and writer. In the 1970s his name was circulated in the media as academician.

Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald MC DL, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

Barbara Jo Allen was an actress also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!"

Richard Allen Markowitz was an American film and television composer. He was the father of singer Kate Markowitz.

Aksel Schiøtz was a Danish tenor and later baritone, who was considered one of Europe's leading lieder singers of the post-World War II period.

Michel Brunet was a Quebec historian and essayist. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Université de Montréal and received his Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.