List of Famous people who died at 68

Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova was a Soviet artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.

Wilfred Shingleton was an English art director. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the British film industry from his debut in 1937. Some of his early assignments were several George Formby vehicles – hugely popular with wartime audiences.

Leonid Denisovich Kizim was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Predrag Laković was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 1997.

Eleanor Louise Greenwich was an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote "Be My Baby", "Christmas ", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Leader of the Pack", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", and "River Deep – Mountain High", among others.

Rosemarie Said Zahlan was a Palestinian-American Christian historian and writer on the Persian Gulf states. She was a sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, she also wrote for the Financial Times, the Middle East Journal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam.