List of Famous people who died in 1968

Chrysostomos II was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 14 February 1962 to 11 May 1967.

Arthur Owen Marshall was an American composer and performer of ragtime music.

Benedict Bogeaus, was an independent film producer and former owner of General Service Studios.

José Maurer was an Israeli-Argentine actor. He was regarded as one of the greatest figures in Yiddish theatre.

Paula Ben-Gurion was the wife of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

Francis Edward Hyland was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia from 1956 to 1961.

Zvi Lurie was a Jewish political figure in Mandatory Palestine. A member of the Jewish National Council, he was amongst the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.

Yaacov Ben-Dov was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine.

Tauno Heikki Hannikainen was a Finnish cellist and conductor.

Karl Rankl was a British conductor and composer who was of Austrian birth. A pupil of the composers Schoenberg and Webern, he conducted at opera houses in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia until fleeing from the Nazis and taking refuge in England in 1939.