List of Famous people who died in 1968
Walter Nash
Sir Walter Nash was a New Zealand politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand in the Second Labour Government from 1957 to 1960. He is noted for his long period of political service, having been associated with the New Zealand Labour Party since its creation.
Henry Hallett Dale
Sir Henry Hallett Dale was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.
Antonio Pesenti
Antonio Pesenti was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1932 Giro d'Italia. He also placed third and fourth overall in the 1931 and 1932 Tour de France, respectively.
Roberto Montenegro
Roberto Montenegro Nervo was a painter, muralist and illustrator, who was one of the first to be involved in the Mexican muralism movement after the Mexican Revolution. His most important mural work was done at the former San Pedro and San Pablo monastery but as his work did not have the same drama as other muralists, such as Diego Rivera, he lost prominence in this endeavor. Most of his career is dedicated to illustration and publishing, portrait painting and the promotion of Mexican handcrafts and folk art.
Ralph Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys
Ralph Francis Julian Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys was an English Aristocrat and Lord of Stonor Park who married an American heiress.
Carlo Montuori
Carlo Montuori was an Italian cinematographer and cameraman.
Charles Chaplin
Charles Spencer Chaplin III was an American actor. He was a son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey. He is known for appearing in 1950s films such as The Beat Generation and Fangs of the Wild.
Ramón Novarro
José Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino.
Reginald Bridgeman
Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman CMG, MVO was a British diplomat and politician.
Berthold Bartosch
Berthold Bartosch was a film-maker, born in Polaun, in the Bohemia region of Austria-Hungary.