Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1968
Jack Rhodes
Andrew Jackson 'Jack' Rhodes was an American country music producer and songwriter, with songwriting credits on over 625 released songs. Several of his songs became hit records, including "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty", "The Waltz of the Angels", "Beautiful Lies", and "Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall". Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 (posthumously), he is most recently celebrated as one of the founding fathers of Rockabilly, having written specifically for Gene Vincent and Capitol Records. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2009. Jack Rhodes memorabilia is currently on exhibit at the Mineola Historical Museum in Mineola, Texas and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in Nashville.
Luis de Hesse-Darmstadt
Príncipe Luis de Hesse-Darmstadt fue el hijo menor de Ernesto Luis, gran duque de Hesse y su segunda esposa Eleonora de Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. Sucedió a su hermano Jorge Donato como gran duque titular de Hesse-Darmstadt, después de su muerte.
James Burke
James Michael Burke was an Irish-American film and television character actor born in New York City.
Cornell Woolrich
Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, más conocido por sus seudónimos William Irish o George Hopley, fue un escritor estadounidense de novelas policíacas y de misterio, el más adaptado al cine y la televisión y, según su biógrafo Francis Nevins Jr., «el cuarto mejor escritor de crímenes de su época tras Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner y Raymond Chandler».
Elmer Jacob Schnackenberg
Elmer Jacob Schnackenberg was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Jess Willard
Jess Willard,, fue un boxeador estadounidense campeón mundial de peso completo.
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer fue un director de cine y guionista danés, considerado uno de los mayores directores del cine europeo.
Muthulakshmi Reddi
Muthulakshmi Reddy, spelled Reddi in some British Indian sources, was an Indian medical practitioner, social reformer and Padma Bhushan award recipient.
Vasili Sokolovski
Vasili Danílovich Sokolovski fue un mariscal soviético.
Augustus Agar
Commodore Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, was a Royal Navy officer in both the First and the Second World Wars. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for sinking a Soviet cruiser during the Russian Civil War.