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('''
MCMLXVIII ''') was a
Leap Year Starting On Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar).
- 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 .
- - United States and South Vietnamese forces launched a new operation in the Mekong Delta .
- launches Apollo 7 , the first manned Apollo mission, with Astronaut s 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 coupe d`etat became president and leader.
- 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 .
- 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 .
- March 1 - Kunjarani Devi , Indian weightlifter
- March 4 - Patsy Kensit , English actress
- March 11 - Lisa Loeb , American singer
- March 15 - Mark McGrath , American musician ( Sugar Ray )
- March 23 - Mike Atherton , English cricketer
- March 23 - Damon Albarn , English musician ( Blur and Gorillaz )
- March 26 - Kenny Chesney , American musician
- 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
- 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 25 - Will Smith , American rapper and actor
- September 26 - James Caviezel , American actor
- September 28 - Naomi Watts , English-born 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 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
- 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 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 )
- 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 12 - Tommy Armour , Scottish golfer (b. 1894 )
- October 1 - Valota Paolo, Italian Empreneur (b. 1968)
- 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 )
- 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 )
- Mark Kurlansky (2004), ''1968: the year that rocked the world'', Jonathan Cape
