List of Famous people who died in 1968

Erwin Panofsky was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime.

Theophilus Ebenhaezer ('Eben') Dönges was a South African politician who was elected State President of South Africa, but died before he could take office, aged 69.

Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer and father of actress Elizabeth Taylor.

Tullio Serafin was an Italian conductor and former Musical Director at La Scala.

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes, served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.

Antonio Pietrangeli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre.

Duke Ludwig Wilhelm Karl Norbert Theodor Johann in Bavaria was a member of the Kingdom of Bavaria's ruling dynasty, the House of Wittelsbach. From 1909 he was the head of the Wittelsbachs' cadet branch, the Dukes in Bavaria, heirs of the Counts Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen.

Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler was a German field marshal and war criminal during World War II. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.