List of Famous people who died in 1968

Bernard Rogers was an American composer.

Hjalmar Petersen was an American politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Minnesota.

Egon Hilbert was an Austrian opera/theatre director.

Friedrich Burmeister was minister for post and telecommunication in the DDR.

Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR.

Rudolf Forster was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 106 films between 1914 and 1968. His autobiography Das Spiel, mein Leben was published by Propyläen Verlag in 1967. He was born in Gröbming, Austria, and died in Bad Aussee, Austria.

Walter Tollmien was a German fluid dynamics engineer.

Carl Balhaus was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as director for the East German state-owned studio DEFA. He was an uncle of the Academy Award nominated cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.

George Chauncey Sparks, known as Chauncey Sparks, was an attorney and Democratic American politician who served as the 41st Governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947. He made improvements to state education of whites and expanded the state schools and centers for agriculture. He campaigned for passage of the Boswell Amendment to the state constitution, which was designed to keep blacks disfranchised following the US Supreme Court ruling Smith v. Allwright (1944) against use of white primaries by the Democratic Party in the states.