List of Famous people who died in 1968
Nahum Nir
Nahum Nir-Rafalkes was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. He was the only Speaker of the Knesset not to have been a member of the ruling party until Benny Gantz in 2020.
Doris Mable Cochran
Doris Mable Cochran was an American herpetologist and custodian of the American Natural Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for many years.
Donough O'Brien, 16th Baron Inchiquin
Donough Edward Foster O'Brien, 16th Baron Inchiquin was an Irish peer and 29th indirect descendant of Brian Boru.
Donald Wolfit
Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE was an English actor-manager, known for his touring wartime productions of Shakespeare. He was especially renowned for his portrayal of King Lear.
Earl D. Eisenhower
Earl Dewey Eisenhower was an American electrical engineer and legislator, as well as the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Francis McDonald
Francis McDonald was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years.
Edric Connor
Edric Esclus Connor was a Caribbean singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Trinidad and Tobago. He was a performer of calypso in the United Kingdom, where he migrated in 1944 and chiefly lived and worked for the rest of his life until he died following a stroke in London, at the age of 55.
Eduardo Cansino, Sr.
Eduardo Cansino Reina was a Spanish-born American dancer and actor, and the father of actress Rita Hayworth.
Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin
Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin, 14th Earl of Kincardine KT, CMG, TD, CD, JP was the son of Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin who became Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary State for the Colonies (1908–11) and a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Bice Valerian
Bice Valerian was an Italian film actress of the silent era. She was the wife of the actor and director Roberto Roberti and the mother of Sergio Leone.