1968
1968 (
MCMLXVIII) was a
leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar).
January
*
January 5 -
Alexander Dubček elected as the leader of the
Czechoslovakian Communist Party - the "
Prague Spring" begins in
Czechoslovakia.
*
January 15 - An
earthquake occurs in Sicily - 231 dead, 262 injured.
*
January 21 - US
B-52 Stratofortress crashes in
Greenland and in the process discharges four
nuclear bombs.
*
January 23 -
North Korea seizes the
USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
*
January 25 - The
Israeli Submarine
Dakar sinks in the Mediterranean Sea - 69 dead.
*
January 27 - French submarine sinks in the Mediterranean with 52 men.
*
January 30 -
Vietnam War: The
Tet Offensive begins, as
Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across
South Vietnam.
*
January 31 -
Viet Cong soldiers attack the
United States embassy in
Saigon.
*
January 31 -
Nauru's president
Hammer DeRoburt declares independence from
Australia.
February
* February - Color
TV available in
Canada for the first time.
*
February 1 -
Vietnam War: A
Viet Cong officer is executed by
Nguyen Ngoc Loan a
South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed and helped sway public opinion against the war.
*
February 8 -
Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.
*
February 8 -
American civil rights movement: A
civil rights protest staged at a white-only
bowling alley in
Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students.
*
February 11 -
Israeli-
Jordan border clashes.
*
February 11 -
Madison Square Garden III closes,
Madison Square Garden IV opens in
New York.
*
February 13 - Civil rights disturbances at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
*
February 17 - Administrative reform in
Romania, divided in 39
counties .
*
February 18 -
British Standard Time introduced.
*
February 24 -
Vietnam War: The
Tet Offensive is halted -
South Vietnam recaptures
Hué.
*
February 28 - Ex-
The Teenagers singer
Frankie Lymon is found dead from
heroin overdose.
March
*
March 7 -
Vietnam War: The
First Battle of Saigon begins.
*
March 12 -
Mauritius achieves independence from British Rule.
*
March 12 - President
Lyndon B. Johnson barely defeats antiwar candidate
Eugene J. McCarthy in the
New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, as well as the party, over
Vietnam.
*
March 14 -
Nerve gas leaks from US Army
Dugway Proving Ground near
Skull Valley,
Utah.
*
March 15 -
George Brown, British
Foreign Secretary, resigns.
*
March 16 -
Vietnam War:
My Lai massacre American troops kills scores of civilians.
*
March 16 - Senator
Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the
Democratic Party presidential nomination.
*
March 17 - A demonstration in
London's
Grosvenor Square against US involvement in the
Vietnam War leads to violence - 91 police injured, 200 demonstrators arrested.
*
March 18 -
Gold standard: The
U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a
gold reserve to back US currency.
*
March 26 - Greek American Author
Dennis Syrmis Author of IT and helpdesk interest books.
*
March 27 - Russian space pioneer
Yuri Gagarin killed in a crash during a training flight.
*
March 31 - American President
Lyndon Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.
April
* April -
Carl Brashear, the first
African American United States Navy diver, becomes the first amputee certified to make diving missions, after a long battle which started with the accident which amputated his leg in
1966.
*
April 2 - Bombs placed by
Andreas Baader and
Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in two department stores in
Frankfurt-am-Main. Culprits are later arrested and sentenced for
arson.
*
April 4 -
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated at the
Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward.
*
April 4 -
Apollo 6 Test of the
Saturn V booster
*
April 7 - Racing driver
Jim Clark killed in a
Formula 2 race at
Hockenheim.
*
April 11 -
London Bridge sold to
Robert McCullough for £1 million. It is later re-erected in
Arizona.
*
April 11 -
Joseph Bachmann tries to assassinate
Rudi Dutschke, leader of a left-wing movement (
APO) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards " failing in both.
*
April 11 - German left-wing students blockade the
Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested - one of them is
Ulrike Meinhof.
*
April 11 - Pres. Johnson signs the
Civil Rights Act of 1968.
*
April 20 -
Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes
Canada's fifteenth
prime minister.
*
April 20 - English politician
Enoch Powell makes controversial
Rivers of Blood Speech.
*
April 23-
April 30 -
Vietnam War: Student protesters at
Columbia University in
New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
*
April 23 -
Mobutu releases captured
mercenaries in
Congo.
*
April 23 - Surgeons at the
Hopital de la Pitie,
Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant on
Clovis Roblain.
*
April 29 - Official opening of the musical
Hair on
Broadway.
May
* May -
"May of 68" is a symbol of the resistance of that generation. Agitations and strikes in Paris leads many young to believe that a
revolution is starting. Student and worker strikes sometimes referred to as the
French May nearly bring down the
French government.
*
May 1 - Professor
Giorgios Rosas declares independence of his platform nation
Isle of the Roses off
Rimini,
Italy. Italian troops demolish it two months later.
*
May 2 - The
Israel Broadcasting Authority commence television broadcasts.
*
May 15 - An outbreak of severe thunderstorms produces tornadoes causing massive damage and heavy casualties in
Charles City, Iowa,
Oelwein, Iowa, and
Jonesboro, Arkansas.
*
May 19 -
General elections in
Italy.
*
May 22 - The US nuclear-powered
submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the
Azores.
June
*
June 1 -
Helen Keller dies in her sleep in
Connecticut.
*
June 3 -
Valerie Solanas shoots
Andy Warhol as he enters his studio, wounding him.
*
June 5 - U.S. presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles, California by
Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died from his injuries the next day.
*
June 8 -
James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of
Martin Luther King Jr.
*
June 10 -
Italy beat
Yugoslavia 2-0 in a replay to win the
1968 European Championship. The original final on
June 8 ended 1-1.
*
June 20 -
Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at
Stormont in
Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
*
June 23 -
Soccer stampede in
Buenos Aires - 74 dead, 150 injured.
*
June 29 -
Pope Paul VI announces an
encyclical entitled "
Humanae Vitae", condemning
birth control.
July
* July 1 - The
Central Intelligence Agency's
Phoenix Program is officially established.
*
July 4 - 59-year-old yachtsman
Alec Rose received a hero's welcome as he sailed into
Portsmouth after his 354-day round-the-world trip.
*
July 5 - Birth of
mangaka Ken Akamatsu.
*
July 15 - The
soap opera One Life to Live premieres on the
ABC network.
*
July 17 -
Saddam Hussein becomes the Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in
Iraq after a
coup d'état.
*
July 21 -
Náutico wins the Pernambucano Championship for the sixth time in a row.
*
July 23-
July 28 - African-American militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the
Glenville Shootout of
Cleveland, Ohio.
*
July 26 - Vietnam War:
South Vietnamese opposition leader
Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five 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 for centuries.
August
*
August 11 - The last steam passenger train service ran in Britain. A
British Rail steam
locomotive made the 314-mile journey from
Liverpool to
Carlisle and returned to Liverpool before being dispatched to the
Wrecking yard.
*
August 20 - 200,000
Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000
tanks invade
Czechoslovakia to end the "
Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
*
August 22-
August 30 - Police clash with antiwar protesters in Chicago, Illinois outside the
1968 Democratic National Convention.
September
*
September 6 -
Swaziland becomes independent.
*
September 17 - the
D'Oliveira Affair -
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 27 -
Marcelo Caetano becomes
prime minister of
Portugal.
*
September 29 - A
referendum in
Greece gives more power to the military junta.
October
*
October 2 - A student demonstration ends in a Tlatelolco at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in
Tlatelolco,
Mexico City,
Mexico ten days before the inauguration of the
1968 Summer Olympics.
*
October 5 - A civil rights march in
Derry, (of the six counties of northern) Ireland, which included several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the
Royal Ulster Constabulary.
*
October 8 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Sealords -
United States and
South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the
Mekong Delta.
*
October 11 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches
Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, with
astronauts
Wally Schirra,
Donn Eisele and
Walter Cunningham aboard. Goals for the mission include the first live
television broadcast from
orbit and testing the
lunar module docking maneuver.
*
October 12 - The
Games of the XIX Olympiad in
Mexico City,
Mexico is inaugurated. The games concludes October 27th.
Equatorial Guinea receives its independence from
Spain. In
Panama Gen.
Omar Torrijos with a coup d`etat became president and leader.
*
October 14 -
Vietnam War: The
United States Department of Defense announces that the
United States Army and
United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to
Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
*
October 16 -
Tommie Smith and
John Carlos, two African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200 meter run, raise their arms in a
black power salute after winning the gold and bronze medals for first and third place.
*
October 16 -
Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the
Rodney Riots, inspired by the banning of
Walter Rodney from the country.
*
October 20 -
Aristotle Onassis and
Jacqueline Kennedy marry on the Greek island of
Skorpios.
*
October 31 -
Vietnam War: Citing progress with the
Paris peace talks, US 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.
November
*
November 5 -
U.S. presidential election, 1968: In one of the closest elections in US history,
Republican challenger
Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President
Hubert Humphrey and
American Independent Party candidate
George C. Wallace.
*
November 5 -
Luis A. Ferre is elected
Governor of Puerto Rico.
*
November 11 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Commando Hunt 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.
*
November 11 - A second
republic is declared in the
Maldives.
*
November 14 -
Yale University announced it is going co-educational.
*
November 26 -
Vietnam War:
United States Air Force 1st Lt. and
Bell UH-1F helicopter pilot
James P. Fleming rescues an Army
Special Forces unit pinned down by
Viet Cong fire, earning a
Medal of Honor for his bravery.
December
*
December 6 -
Donald Crowhurst leaves to sail around the globe in hopes of winning the
Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
*
December 9 -
Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering
hypertext system,
NLS, in
San Francisco.
*
December 13 -
Nichols Hall on the campus of
Kansas State University in
Manhattan, Kansas burns to the ground precipitating the use of the
Wabash Cannonball as a KSU fight song.
*
December 24 - US spacecraft
Apollo 8 enters orbit around the moon. Astronauts
Frank Borman,
Jim Lovell and
William A. Anders become the first humans to see the
far side of the
Moon and planet
Earth as a whole. The crew also
reads from Genesis.
January-February
*
January 2 -
Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
*
January 5 -
Andrzej Gołota, Polish boxer
*
January 6 -
John Singleton, American film director and writer
*
January 9 -
Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
*
January 14 -
LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
*
January 24 -
Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
*
January 27 -
Mike Patton, American singer
*
January 28 -
Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer
*
January 29 -
Edward Burns, American actor
*
February 1 -
Lisa Marie Presley, American singer
*
February 5 -
Roberto Alomar, baseball player
*
February 5-
Eypor Guojonsson, Icelandic actor
*
February 8 -
Gary Coleman, American actor
*
February 10 -
Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
*
February 14 -
Jules Asner, American model and television personality
*
February 14 - Nelson
Viscera Frazier, American professional wrestler
*
February 18 -
Tommy Scott, British musician and frontman of 1990s' Britpop group
Space*
February 22 -
Brad Nowell, American musician (d.
1996)
*
February 22 -
Jeri Ryan, American actress
*
February 25 -
Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
*
February 27 -
Matt Stairs, baseball player
March-April
*
March 1 -
Kunjarani Devi, Indian weightlifter
*
March 4 -
Patsy Kensit, English actress
*
March 6 -
Moira Kelly, American actress
*
March 11 -
Lisa Loeb, American singer
*
March 15 -
Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
*
March 15 -
Mark McGrath, American musician (
Sugar Ray)
*
March 18 -
Shinichiro Miki, Japanese
seiyu (voice actor)
*
March 23 -
Mike Atherton, English cricketer
*
March 23 -
Damon Albarn, English musician (
Blur and
Gorillaz)
*
March 23 -
Mitch Cullin, American novelist
*
March 26 -
Kenny Chesney, American musician
*
March 26 -
Spyros Dennis Syrmis, American Author/Musician - Information Technology Books/Solo
*
March 26 -
James Iha, American musician (
Smashing Pumpkins)
*
March 28 -
Iris Chang, American author (d.
2004)
*
March 28 -
Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
*
March 29 -
Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
*
March 30 -
Céline Dion, Canadian singer
*
April 1 -
Andreas Schnaas, German director
*
April 3 -
Sebastian Bach, West Indian-born musician (
Skid Row)
*
April 8 -
Patricia Arquette, American actress
*
April 15 -
Stacey Williams, American model
*
April 19 -
Ashley Judd, American actress
*
April 20 -
J.D. Roth, American television host
*
April 23 -
Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d.
2001)
May-June
*
May 1 -
D'Arcy Wretzky, American musician
*
May 7 -
Traci Lords, American actress
*
May 9 -
Marie-José Perec, French athlete
*
May 12 -
Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
*
May 17 -
Constance Menard, professional Dressage Rider
*
May 26 -
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark*
May 27 -
Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
*
May 27 -
Frank Thomas, baseball player
*
May 28 -
Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
*
June 1-
Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
*
June 2 -
Beetlejuice, member of the
Wack Pack from radio's
The Howard Stern Show*
June 2 -
John Culshaw, English comedian and impressionist
*
June 4 -
Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
*
June 10 -
The D.O.C. , rapper
*
June 20 -
Peter Paige, American actor
*
June 26 -
Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
*
June 28 -
Adam Woodyatt, British actor
*
June 29 -
Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
*
June 30 -
Philip Anselmo, American musician
July-August
*
July 7 -
Jorja Fox, American actress
*
July 7 -
Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
*
July 8 -
Akio Suyama, Japanese
seiyu (voice actor)
*
July 10 -
Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
*
July 15 -
Stan Kirsch, American actor
*
July 16 -
Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
*
July 16 -
Barry Sanders, American football player
*
July 16 -
Robert J. Sherman, American film producer and songwriter
*
July 24 -
Kristin Chenoweth, American soprano and actress.
*
July 27 -
Julian McMahon, Australian actor
*
July 30 -
Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker
*
August 9 -
Gillian Anderson, American actress
*
August 9 -
Eric Bana, Australian actor
*
August 11 -
Charlie Sexton, American guitarist, singer and songwriter
*
August 12 -
Andras Jones, American actor
*
August 14-
Darren Clarke, Northern Irish professional drunkard
*
August 15-
Debra Messing, Professional Actress best known for Will & Grace
*
August 17 -
Ed McCaffrey, American football player
*
August 17 -
Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist
*
August 25 -
Rachael Ray, American television chef and host
*
August 31 -
Todd Carty, British actor
September-October
*
September 1 -
Mohamed Atta al Sayed, Egyptian terrorist
*
September 4 -
Mike Piazza, baseball player
*
September 7 -
Marcel Desailly, French footballer
*
September 11 -
Kay Hanley, American musician
*
September 12 -
John Stutz, American photographer
*
September 18 -
Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
*
September 20 -
Darrell Russell, race car driver (d.
2004)
*
September 20 -
Phillipa Forrester, British TV presenter
*
September 25 -
Will Smith, American rapper and actor
*
September 26 -
James Caviezel, American actor
*
September 28 -
Naomi Watts, English-born actress
*
October 3 -
Paul Crichton, English footballer
*
October 7 -
Toni Braxton, American singer
* October 7 -
Thom Yorke, British singer/songwriter
*
October 8 -
CL Smooth, American rapper
*
October 10 -
Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountainbiker
*
October 11 -
Jane Krakowski, American actress
*
October 12 -
Hugh Jackman, Australian actor
*
October 15 -
Didier Deschamps, French footballer
*
October 18 -
Basil White, American comedian
*
October 20 -
James C. Cooley III , American
*
October 24 -
Sal the Stockbroker, American comedian and radio writer for
The Howard Stern Show*
October 29 -
Tsunku, Japanese singer, music producer, and song composer
*
October 31 -
Vanilla Ice, American rapper
November-December
*
November 3 -
Debbie Rochon, Canadian actress
*
November 4 -
Lee Germon, New Zealand cricketer
*
November 8 -
Zara Whites, Dutch actress
*
November 9 -
Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
*
November 10 -
Steve Brookstein, British singer
*
November 10 -
Petra Liebetanz, Germanan-American Photographer
*
November 12 -
Sammy Sosa, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
*
November 13 -
Pat Hentgen, baseball player
*
November 15 -
Jennifer Charles, American singer
*
November 15 -
Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d.
2004)
*
November 18 -
Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
*
November 18 -
Owen Wilson, American actor
*
November 23 -
Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar
*
November 27 -
Michael Vartan, French actor
*
December 2 -
Lucy Liu, American actress
*
December 5 -
Margaret Cho, Korean-American actress and comedian
*
December 7 -
Mark Geyer, Australian
rugby league player
*
December 8 -
Mike Mussina, baseball player
*
December 8 -
Michael Cole,
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Commentator
*
December 9 -
Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler,
1996 Olympic Gold Medalist
*
December 17 -
Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
Unknown dates
*
George Henry Smyth, Irish artist
January-March
*
January 19 -
Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b.
1879)
*
January 21 -
Will Lang Jr., American journalist (b.
1914)
*
January 22 -
Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b.
1890)
*
January 26 -
Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (b.
1883)
*
February 4 -
Neal Cassady, American writer (b.
1926)
*
February 11 -
Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b.
1888)
*
February 20 -
Anthony Asquith, British director and writer (b.
1902)
*
February 21 -
Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b.
1898)
*
February 22 -
Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b.
1904)
*
February 28 -
Frankie Lymon, American singer (b.
1942)
*
February 29 -
Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b.
1886)
*
March 16 -
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b.
1895)
*
March 20 -
Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (b.
1925)
*
March 23 -
Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (b.
1918)
*
March 27 -
Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (b.
1934)
April-June
*
April 1 -
Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1908)
*
April 4 - Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b.
1929)
*
April 7 -
Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b.
1936)
*
April 10 -
Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b.
1899)
*
April 14 -
Al Benton, baseball player (b.
1911)
*
April 22 -
Stephen H. Sholes, American record executive (b.
1911)
*
April 25 -
John Tewksbury, American athlete (b.
1876)
*
May 7 -
Mike Spence British race car driver (b.
1936)
*
May 9 -
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b.
1893)
*
May 14 -
Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b.
1882)
*
June 1 -
Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for deaf and blind (b.
1880)
*
June 6 -
Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator and
U.S. Attorney General (assassinated) (b.
1925)
*
June 14 -
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
*
June 15 -
Sam Crawford, baseball player (b.
1880)
*
June 24 -
Tony Hancock, British comedian (b.
1924)
July-December
*
July 18 -
Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1892)
*
July 23 -
Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1875)
*
July 28 -
Otto Hahn, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879)
*
August 19 -
George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b.
1904)
*
August 27 -
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b.
1906)
*
August 29 -
Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b.
1881)
*
September 8 -
Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
*
September 12 -
Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b.
1894)
*
October 2 -
Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b.
1887)
*
October 13 -
Bea Benaderet, American actress (b.
1906)
*
October 30 -
Rose Wilder Lane, American author and reporter (b.
1886)
*
October 30 -
Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b.
1899)
*
November 4 -
Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b.
1892)
*
November 6 -
Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b.
1891)
*
November 25 -
Upton Sinclair, American writer (b.
1878)
*
November 26 -
Arnold Zweig, German writer (b.
1887)
*
December 2 -
Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (b.
1902)
*
December 10 -
Karl Barth, German protestant theologian (b.
1888)
*
December 10 -
Thomas Merton, American author (b.
1915)
*
December 12 -
Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b.
1902)
*
December 19 -
Norman Thomas, American politician (b.
1884)
*
December 20 -
John Steinbeck, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
*
December 30 -
Trygve Lie, first
United Nations Secretary General (b.
1896)
*
December 30 -
Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (b.
1904)
Month/day unknown
*
Berthold Bartosch, Czech animator (b.
1893)
*
Robert Wood Johnson, American business leader and philanthropist (b.
1893)
*
Jouett Shouse, American politician (b.
1879)
*
Physics -
Luis Walter Alvarez*
Chemistry -
Lars Onsager*
Physiology or Medicine -
Robert W. Holley,
Har Gobind Khorana,
Marshall W. Nirenberg*
Literature -
Yasunari Kawabata*
Peace -
René Cassin* Mark Kurlansky (2004),
1968: the year that rocked the world, Jonathan Cape
