List of Famous people who died in 1968

Sir Stanley Unwin, KCMG was a British publisher, who founded the Allen & Unwin publishing firm.

Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov was a Russian Empire and Soviet chemist who discovered the Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction.

James Leonard Brierley Smith, known more commonly as "J. L. B. Smith",, was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct.

Carl Krauch was a German chemist, industrialist and Nazi war criminal. He was an executive at BASF ; during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was a key implementer of the Reich’s Four-Year Plan to achieve national economic self-sufficiency and promote industrial production. He was Plenipotentiary of Special Issues in Chemical Production, a senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, and an honorary professor at the University of Berlin. He was convicted in the IG Farben trial after World War II and sentenced to six years in prison.

Paul Friedländer was a German philologist specializing in classical literature.

Guido Karl Heinrich Hoheisel was a German mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Cologne.

Hamilton Somers Luske was an American animator and film director. He joined the Walt Disney Productions animation studio in 1931 and he was soon trusted enough by Walt Disney to be made supervising animator of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.