List of Famous people who died at 68

Thelma Kingsbury (1911-1979), was an English-born, naturalised American sportswoman who won major badminton titles in the British Isles and then in the USA from the early 1930s to the early 1950s.

John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Michigan and the 42nd Governor of Michigan.

Carlo Mollino was an Italian architect, designer and photographer.

Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis. Following a PhD in 1956 from the University of Manchester, he undertook postdoctoral research with Har Gobind Khorana at the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Subsequently, Smith worked at the Fisheries Research Board of Canada Laboratory in Vancouver before being appointed a professor of biochemistry in the UBC Faculty of Medicine in 1966. Smith's career included roles as the founding director of the UBC Biotechnology Laboratory and the founding scientific leader of the Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence (PENCE). In 1996 he was named Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology. Subsequently he became the founding director of the Genome Sequencing Centre at the BC Cancer Research Centre.

Michel Crépeau was a French centre-left politician.