1968 (MCMLXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 2nd millennium , the 68th year of the 20th century , and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
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– FebruaryJanuary 23: North Korea seizes USS Pueblo (AGER-2) January 30: Tet Offensive begins – AprilApril 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated at the Lorraine Motel March 2 – Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country of England.[4] March 6 – Un-recognized Rhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since UDI , prompting international condemnation.March 7 – Vietnam War : The First Battle of Saigon ends.March 8
March 10 –11 – Vietnam War : Battle of Lima Site 85 , the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during the (at this time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War .March 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding .[7] March 12
March 13 – The first Rotaract club is chartered in North Charlotte , North Carolina.March 14 – Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah .March 16
March 18 – Gold standard : The United States Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency.March 19 –23 – Afrocentrism , Black Power , Vietnam War : Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in , laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.March 22 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit ("Danny the Red") and 7 other students occupy the administrative offices of the University of Nanterre , setting in motion a chain of events that lead France to the brink of revolution in May.March 24 – Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford , killing 61 passengers and crew.March 28 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship .March 31 – In a televised address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election.April 2 – Bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main ; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced for arson .April 4
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April 7 – British racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim .April 10 – The ferry TEV Wahine strikes a reef at the mouth of Wellington Harbour , New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, in Cyclone Giselle, which has created the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand.April 11
Josef Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke , leader of the left-wing movement (APO ) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later.German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them Ulrike Meinhof ). April 20 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.[8] April 23
President Mobutu releases captured mercenaries in the Congo .
Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain.
The United Methodist Church is created by the union in Dallas , Texas, of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches. April 23 –30 – Vietnam War : Columbia University protests of 1968 – Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.April 26 – The nuclear weapon "Boxcar" is tested at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie .– JuneMay 2–June 23: Protests in France grow and demonstrators barricade the streets May 2 – The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.May 3 – Braniff Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas , United States, killing all 85 people on board.May 13
May 16 – Ronan Point , a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5.May 17 – The Catonsville Nine enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland , take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with napalm as a protest against the Vietnam War .May 18
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May 22 – The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion Azores .May 29 – Manchester United wins the European Cup Final , becoming the first English team to do so.May 30 – Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 .June 2 – Student demonstrations in Yugoslavia start in Belgrade .June 3 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory ; he survives after a 5-hour operation.June 4 – The Standard & Poor's 500 index in the United States closes above 100 for the first time, at 100.38.June 5 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy : Senator Robert F. Kennedy , a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate , is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles . Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan is arrested.June 7 – Ford sewing machinists strike for equal pay starts at the Ford Dagenham plant in London.June 10 – Italy beats Yugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win the 1968 European Championship in Association football. The original final on June 8 ended 1–1.June 12 – The horror film Rosemary's Baby June 17 – The Malayan Communist Party launches a second insurgency and the state of emergency is again imposed in Malaysia .June 20 – Austin Currie , Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland , along with others, squats in a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.June 21 – A student demonstration in front of the Jornal do Brasil ("JB") building ends with 28 dead and over a thousand arrested.June 23
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– AugustAugust 20–21: Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia July 1 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.July 4 – British yachtsman Alec Rose , 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth , after his 354-day solo round-the-world trip.July 17 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état July 18 – The semiconductor company Intel is founded.July 20 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.July 23 –28 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the Glenville Shootout of Cleveland, Ohio , in the United States.July 25 – Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical Humanae vitae birth control .July 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to 5 years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war .July 29 – Arenal Volcano erupts in Costa Rica for the first time in centuries.August 1 – The Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul is established in São Caetano do Sul , São Paulo .August 2 – The magnitude (Casiguran earthquake affects the Aurora province in the Philippines with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), killing at least 207 and injuring 261.August 5 –8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U.S. president and Spiro Agnew for vice president.August 11 – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return – the journey is known as the Fifteen Guinea Special .August 18 – Two charter buses are forced into the Hida River on National Highway Route 41 in Japan in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed.August 20 –21 – Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia : The 'Prague Spring ' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 6,500 tanks with 800 aircraft invade Czechoslovakia , the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II.August 24 – Canopus (nuclear test) : France explodes its first hydrogen bomb in a test at Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia .August 22 –30 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests : Police clash with anti-Vietnam War protesters in Chicago outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention , which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. president and Edmund Muskie for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the Youth International Party .August 29 – Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen , the commoner he has dated for 9 years.– OctoberOctober 12–27: 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City September 6 – Swaziland (later known as eSwatini) becomes independent of the United Kingdom.September 7 – The crash of Air France Flight 1611 kills 95 people, including French Army General René Cogny , as the Caravelle jetliner plunges into the Mediterranean Sea following a fire while making its approach to Nice following its departure from the island of Corsica .The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is founded.
September 13 – Albania officially withdraws from the Warsaw Pact upon the Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , having already ceased to participate actively in Pact activity since 1962.September 17 – The D'Oliveira affair : The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D'Oliveira , a Cape Coloured , in the side.September 21 – The Soviet's Zond 5 uncrewed lunar flyby mission returns to Earth, with its first-of-a-kind biological payload intact.September 23 – Vietnam War : The Tet Offensive comes to an end in South Vietnam .September 27 – Marcelo Caetano becomes prime minister of Portugal.September 29 – A referendum in Greece gives more power to the military junta.October 2 – Tlatelolco massacre : A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco , Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics . 300-400 are estimated to have been killed.October 3 – In Peru , Juan Velasco Alvarado takes power in a revolution.October 8 – Vietnam War – Operation Sealords : United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta .October 11
October 12 –27 – The 1968 Summer Olympics are held in Mexico City, Mexico.October 12 – Equatorial Guinea receives its independence from Spain.October 14 – Vietnam War : The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will send about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.October 16
October 18 – US athlete Bob Beamon breaks the long jump world record by 55 cm / 213 ⁄ 4 ins at the Olympics in Mexico City . His record stands for 23 years, and remains the second longest jump in history.October 25 – Led Zeppelin make their first live performance, at Surrey University in England[9] October 31 – Vietnam War : Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam " effective November 1 .– DecemberNovember 5: Richard Nixon elected United States President November 5
November 7 – start of 1968 movement in Pakistan , which led to the resignation of General Ayub Khan , and ultimately the split of the country and formation of Bangladesh .November 8 – The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals is signed and ratified.November 11 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives .November 15 – Vietnam War : Operation Commando Hunt is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail , through Laos into South Vietnam . By the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations.[10] [11] November 17
November 19 – In Mali , President Modibo Keïta 's regime is overthrown in a bloodless military coup led by Moussa Traoré .[12] November 20 – The Farmington Mine disaster in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men.November 22 – Japan Air Lines Flight 2 was scheduled to fly from Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND) to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) landed into the water due to pilot error.November 24 – 4 men hijack Pan Am Flight 281 from JFK International Airport , New York to Havana , Cuba .December 9 – Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS , in San Francisco , together with the computer mouse , at what becomes retrospectively known as "The Mother of All Demos ".December 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the never-solved "300 million yen robbery ", occurs in Tokyo.December 11 – The film Oliver! Broadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in the UK. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture .December 13 – Prompted by growing unrest and a perceived proliferation of "pro-communist" violent actions, Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva enacts the so-called AI-5 , the fifth of a series of non-constitutional emergency decrees allegedly to help "stabilize" the country after the turmoils of the early 1960s.December 22 – Mao Zedong advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the countryside . It marks the start of the "Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement .December 24 – Apollo program : The crewed U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon . Astronauts Frank Borman , Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs Earthrise reading from the Book of Genesis .December 28 – Israeli forces fly into Lebanese airspace, launching an attack on the airport in Beirut and destroying more than a dozen aircraft.
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January 6 – John Singleton , African-American film director and writer (d. 2019 )[16] January 11 – Benjamin List , German organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in ChemistryJanuary 12
January 13 – Pat Onstad , Canadian soccer playerJanuary 14 – LL Cool J , African-American rapper and actorJanuary 16 – Atticus Ross , English musician, songwriter, record producer and audio engineerJanuary 17 – Svetlana Masterkova , Russian athleteJanuary 24
January 26 – Novala Takemoto , Japanese author and fashion designerJanuary 27 – Mike Patton , American singerJanuary 28 – Sarah McLachlan , Canadian singerJanuary 29 – Edward Burns , American actorJanuary 30 – King Felipe VI of Spain March
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March 2 – Daniel Craig , British actorMarch 3 – Brian Leetch , American ice hockey playerMarch 4
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March 6 – Moira Kelly , American actressMarch 7 – Jeff Kent , American baseball playerMarch 9
March 11 – Lisa Loeb , American singerMarch 12 – Aaron Eckhart , American actorMarch 13
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Carlos Almeida , Cape Verdean long-distance runnerUltra Naté , American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoterMarch 22 – Euronymous , Norwegian musician (d. 1993 )March 23
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March 27 – Ben Koldyke , American actorMarch 28 – Iris Chang , American author (d. 2004 )[26] March 29 – Lucy Lawless , New Zealand actress and singer[27] March 30 – Celine Dion , Canadian singer[28] March 31 – César Sampaio , Brazilian football player and coach[29] April
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April 7 – Jože Možina , Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalistApril 8
April 9 – Tom Brands , American Olympic wrestlerApril 11 – CB Milton , Dutch electronic music vocalistApril 12 – Ott , English musician and record producerApril 13 – Necrobutcher , Norwegian musicianApril 14 – Anthony Michael Hall , American actor and singerApril 15 – Stacey Williams , American modelApril 16
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April 18 – David Hewlett , English-born Canadian actor, writer and directorApril 19 – Ashley Judd , American actressApril 20
April 23 – Timothy McVeigh , American terrorist (d. 2001 )April 24
April 28 – Howard Donald , British singer (Take That )April 29
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May 10 – Al Murray , English comedianMay 12 – Tony Hawk , American skateboarderMay 13
May 14 – Greg Davies , English actor, comedian and presenterMay 16 – Chingmy Yau , Hong Kong actressMay 17 – Constance Menard , French professional dressage riderMay 18 – Vanessa Leggett , American freelance journalist, author, lecturer and First Amendment advocateMay 19 – Kyle Eastwood , American jazz bass musicianMay 20
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May 23 – John Ortiz , American actorMay 24 – Charles De'Ath , English actorMay 26 – King Frederik X of Denmark May 27
May 28 – Kylie Minogue , Australian actress and singerMay 30 – Zacarias Moussaoui , French-Moroccan 9/11 conspiratorJune
June 1 – Jason Donovan , Australian actor and singerJune 2
June 4 – Scott Wolf , American actorJune 5 – Sandra Annenberg , Brazilian newscaster, previously actress
June 9 – Aleksandr Konovalov , Russian lawyer and politicianJune 10
June 14 – Yasmine Bleeth , American actressJune 16 – Mariana Mazzucato , Italian born-American economist[34] June 20 – Mateusz Morawiecki , Polish banker and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Poland June 24 – Boris Gelfand , Israeli chess grandmasterJune 25 – Albert Fulivai , Tongan rugby league playerJune 26
June 27 – Isabel Saint Malo , Panamian politicianJune 28
June 29 – Theoren Fleury , Canadian ice hockey player[36] June 30 – Phil Anselmo , American heavy metal vocalistAugust
August 1 – Pavo Urban , Croatian photographer (d. 1991 )August 3 – Rod Beck , American baseball player (d. 2007 )August 4
August 5 – Patricia Tarabini , Argentine tennis player
August 6 August 7 – Lynn Strait , American musician (d. 1998 )August 8 – Kimberly Brooks , American actress and voice artistAugust 9
August 11 – Vladimir Kosterin , Ukrainian businessman and foundation president[38] August 12
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August 15 – Debra Messing , American actressAugust 16 – Arvind Kejriwal , Indian politicianAugust 17
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August 25 – Rachael Ray , American television chef and hostAugust 27 – Luis Tascón , Venezuelan politician (d. 2010 )August 28
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September 2 – Francisco Acevedo , American serial killer[39] September 3 – Raymond Coulthard , English actorSeptember 4
September 5 – Thomas Levet , French golferSeptember 7 – Marcel Desailly , French footballerSeptember 9 – Julia Sawalha , English actressSeptember 10
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September 13 – Laura Cutina , Romanian artistic gymnastSeptember 15 – Danny Nucci , American actorSeptember 16 – Marc Anthony , American actor and singerSeptember 17
September 18 – Toni Kukoč , Croatian basketball playerSeptember 20 – Van Jones , African-American authorSeptember 21
September 22 – Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu , 62nd Prime Minister of RomaniaSeptember 23 – Michelle Thomas , American actress (d. 1998 )September 25
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September 30 – Bennet Omalu , Nigerian pathologistOctober
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October 3 – Nadia Calviño , Spanish politicianOctober 7
Luminița Anghel , Romanian dance/pop recording artist, songwriter, television personality and politicianThom Yorke , British singer-songwriterOctober 8
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Troy Davis , American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011 )Pete Docter , American animator, directorOctober 10
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October 16 – Michael Stich , German tennis playerOctober 20 – Damien Timmer , British joint-managing director, television producer, television executive producerOctober 22 – Shaggy , Jamaican singerOctober 24 – Mark Walton , American story artist, actorOctober 27 – Alain Auderset , Swedish writerOctober 28 – Juan Orlando Hernández , 55th President of Honduras October 29
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November 1 – Silvio Fauner , Italian cross-country skierNovember 4
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November 6 – Kelly Rutherford , American actressNovember 7 – Ignacio Padilla , Mexican writer (d. 2016 )November 8
November 9 – Nazzareno Carusi , Italian classical pianistNovember 10 – Tracy Morgan , African-American actor and comedianNovember 12
November 13 – Pat Hentgen , American baseball playerNovember 15
November 16 – Tammy Lauren , American actressNovember 18
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November 21 – Qiao Hong , Chinese table tennis playerNovember 23 – Hamid Hassani , Iranian scholarNovember 24
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November 27 – Michael Vartan , French actorNovember 29
November 30 – Rica Matsumoto , Japanese actress, voice actress and singerDecember
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Lucy Liu , American actress, voice actress, director, singer, dancer, model, and artistRena Sofer , American actressDecember 3
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December 9 – Kurt Angle , American amateur and professional wrestler, 1996 Olympic gold medalistDecember 11
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December 19 – Ken Marino , American actor and comedianDecember 20 – Nadia Farès , Moroccan born-French actressDecember 21 – Khrystyne Haje , American actressDecember 22 – Dina Meyer , American actressDecember 23 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz , American photographerDecember 24 – Choi Jin-sil , South Korean actress and model (d. 2008 )December 25 – Helena Christensen , Danish modelDecember 28 – Lior Ashkenazi , Israeli actorDecember 30 – Fabrice Guy , French Olympic skier
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Mae Marsh Howard Florey February 4
February 7 – Nick Adams , American actor (b. 1931 )February 10 – Pitirim Sorokin , Russian-American sociologist (b. 1889 )February 11 – Howard Lindsay , American playwright (b. 1888 )February 13
February 15 – Little Walter , American blues musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1930 )February 17 – Sir Donald Wolfit , English actor (b. 1902 )February 19 – Georg Hackenschmidt , German strongman and professional wrestler (b. 1877 )February 20 – Anthony Asquith , British director and writer (b. 1902 )[46] February 21 – Howard Florey , Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898 )February 22 – Peter Arno , American cartoonist (b. 1904 )February 25 – Camille Huysmans , Belgian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871 )February 27
February 29 – Hugo Benioff , American seismologist (b. 1899 )March
Yuri Gagarin March 6 – Joseph W. Martin Jr. , American politician (b. 1884 )March 8 – Jerzy Braun , Polish athlete (b. 1911 )March 14 – Erwin Panofsky , German-Jewish art historian (b. 1892 )March 15 – Khuang Aphaiwong , 4th Prime Minister of Thailand , country leader during World War II (b. 1902 )March 16 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Italian composer (b. 1895 )[47] March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer , Danish film director (b. 1889 )[48] March 23 – Edwin O'Connor , American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (b. 1918 )[49] March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché , French filmmaker (b. 1873 )[50] March 27 – Yuri Gagarin , Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (b. 1934 )[51] March 30 – Bobby Driscoll , American child actor (b. 1937 )August
Konstantin Rokossovsky August 3 – Konstantin Rokossovsky , Soviet officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896 )August 5 – Luther Perkins , American guitarist (b. 1928 )August 10 – Ratna Asmara , Indonesian actress and director (b. 1913 )August 19 – George Gamow , Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904 )August 25 – Stan McCabe , Australian cricketer (b. 1910 )August 26 – Kay Francis , American actress (b. 1905 )August 27
August 29 – Ulysses S. Grant III , American soldier and planner (b. 1881 )[58] August 30 – William Talman , American actor (b. 1915 )August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe , American actor (b. 1908 )November
Charles Bacon Upton Sinclair November 1 – Georgios Papandreou , 3-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888 )November 6 – Charles Munch , French conductor (b. 1891 )November 7 – Alexander Gelfond , Soviet mathematician (b. 1906 )November 8 – Wendell Corey , American actor (b. 1914 )November 9
November 11 – Jeanne Demessieux , French composer (b. 1921 )November 14 – Ramón Menéndez Pidal , Spanish philologist and historian (b. 1869 )November 15 – Charles Bacon , American athlete (b. 1885 )November 16
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November 18 – Walter Wanger , American film producer (b. 1894 )November 20 – Helen Gardner , American actress (b. 1884 )November 24 – István Dobi , prime minister of Hungary (b. 1898 )[63] November 25 – Upton Sinclair , American writer (b. 1878 )[64] November 26 – Arnold Zweig , German writer, pacifist and socialist (b. 1887 )November 28 – Enid Blyton , English writer (b. 1897 )November 30 – Charles Henry Bartlett , British cyclist (b. 1885 )
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