A tribute to the famous celebrities, legends, and icons we lost in 1968.
From civil rights leaders to Hollywood stars, space pioneers to music icons — we remember those who left us that year.

⬇️ PEOPLE FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO ⬇️

🗓️ JANUARY
Duke Kahanamoku – Father of Modern Surfing & Olympic Swimmer
Bill Masterton – NHL Player (Minnesota North Stars)
Bert Wheeler – Comedian & Actor (Wheeler & Woolsey)
Bob Jones Sr. – Founder of Bob Jones University
Ray Harroun – 1st Indy 500 Winner
John Ridgely – Character Actor (The Big Sleep)
Howard Smith – Actor (Death of a Salesman)

🗓️ FEBRUARY
Frankie Lymon – Rock and Roll Pioneer (The Teenagers)
Nick Adams – Academy Award-Nominated Actor
Little Walter – Blues Harmonica Legend
Mae Marsh – Silent Film Actress
Howard Florey – Nobel Laureate (Isolated Penicillin)
Juanita Hall – First African American Tony Award Winner
Fannie Hurst – Best-Selling Novelist

🗓️ MARCH
Yuri Gagarin – First Human in Space
Bobby Driscoll – Disney Child Star (Peter Pan)
Alice Guy-Blaché – World's First Female Film Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer – Danish Film Director
Syd Nathan – Founder of King Records
Edwin O'Connor – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist
Joseph Martin Jr. – Speaker of the House

🗓️ APRIL
Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Rights Leader & Nobel Laureate
Jim Clark – 2-Time F1 World Champion
Edna Ferber – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist
Fay Bainter – Academy Award-Winning Actress
Steve Sholes – Record Producer (Signed Elvis Presley)
Lev Landau – Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist
Bobby Hutton – Black Panther Party's First Treasurer

🗓️ MAY
Jack Adams – Hockey Hall of Famer (Detroit Red Wings)
Albert Dekker – Character Actor & Politician
Craig Wood – Masters & U.S. Open Golf Champion
Lurleen Wallace – 46th Governor of Alabama
Marion Lorne – Actress (Bewitched)
Harold Gray – Creator of Little Orphan Annie
Little Willie John – R&B Singer ("Fever")

🗓️ JUNE
Robert F. Kennedy – U.S. Senator & Former Attorney General
Helen Keller – Author & Political Activist
Wes Montgomery – Jazz Guitar Legend
Dan Duryea – Hollywood Screen Villain
Dorothy Gish – Silent Film Pioneer
Tony Hancock – English Comedian
Sam Crawford – Baseball Hall of Famer

🗓️ JULY
Otto Hahn – Nobel Laureate, Father of Nuclear Chemistry
Bumpy Johnson – Godfather of Harlem
Ruth St. Denis – Modern Dance Pioneer
Charles William Mayo – Surgeon (Mayo Clinic)
Virginia Weidler – Child Actress (The Philadelphia Story)
Sir Henry Dale – Nobel Laureate Physiologist
Lillian Harvey – British-German Actress & Singer

🗓️ AUGUST
George Gamow – Big Bang Theory Physicist
Kay Francis – Leading Lady of the 1930s
William Talman – Actor (Perry Mason)
Luther Perkins – Johnny Cash's Guitarist
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent – British Royal
Dennis O'Keefe – Film Actor & Writer
Ulysses S. Grant III – Major General & Historian

🗓️ SEPTEMBER
Padre Pio – Italian Priest & Mystic
Chester Carlson – Inventor of Xerography
Red Foley – Country Music Singer
Franchot Tone – Academy Award Nominee
Tommy Armour – Professional Golfer
Cornell Woolrich – Crime Novelist (Rear Window)
Norman Brookes – Australian Tennis Champion

🗓️ OCTOBER
Marcel Duchamp – Revolutionary French-American Artist
Bea Benaderet – Actress (Petticoat Junction; The Flintstones)
Ramon Novarro – Silent Film Star (Ben-Hur)
Lise Meitner – Co-Discoverer of Nuclear Fission
Lee Tracy – Academy Award-Nominated Actor
Rose Wilder Lane – Journalist & Author
Malcolm Hale – Musician (Spanky and Our Gang)

🗓️ NOVEMBER
Upton Sinclair – Author & Social Reformer (The Jungle)
Enid Blyton – Children's Author (The Famous Five)
Charles B. McVay III – Commander of the USS Indianapolis
Wendell Corey – Actor (Rear Window; The Searchers)
Vern Stephens – 8-Time MLB All-Star
Charles Münch – Conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Walter Wanger – Film Producer (Cleopatra)

🗓️ DECEMBER
John Steinbeck – Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
Tallulah Bankhead – Stage & Screen Actress
Thomas Merton – Trappist Monk & Author
Jess Willard – World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Norman Thomas – 6-Time Presidential Candidate
Trygve Lie – 1st UN Secretary-General
Fred Clark – Character Actor (Auntie Mame)

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