List of Famous people who died in 1968

Major-General Sir Robert Edward Laycock was a senior British Army officer, most significant for his service with the British Commandos during the Second World War.

Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950–1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos and served numerous times as a cabinet minister, starting in 1923, in a political career that spanned more than five decades.

José Nasazzi Yarza was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a defender. He captained his country when they won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930.

Francis Daniel Johnson Sr.,, was a Quebec politician and the 20th Premier of Quebec from 1966 to his death in 1968.

Henri Arius (1897–1968) was a French film and stage actor. A character actor he appeared in a large number of films in wartime and post-war France.

Howard Alexander Petrie was an American radio, television, and film actor.

Howard Irving Smith was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theatre, radio, films and television. In 1938 he performed in Orson Welles's short-lived stage production and once-lost film, Too Much Johnson, and in the celebrated radio production, "The War of the Worlds". He portrayed Charley in the original Broadway production of Death of a Salesman and recreated the role in the 1951 film version. On television Smith portrayed the gruff Harvey Griffin in the situation comedy, Hazel.

Jay Dratler was an American screenwriter and novelist.