Historical figures in 1968
The atlas holds 78 people and 117 moments here, in 1968. The most recorded lives are Martin Luther King Jr., Indira Gandhi and Umm Kulthum. Among them Writers, Performers and Political Leaders.
Notable people
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
in 1968
1 moment here
Algerian politician, diplomat, and president. Born in Oujda, he joined the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War, served as Algeria's…
Abebe Bikila
in 1968
3 moments here
Ethiopian marathon runner and Imperial Guard officer who won Olympic marathon gold in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964, both in world-record time.…
Ada Yonath
in 1968
1 moment here
Israeli crystallographer whose work on ribosome structure and function earned her a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.…
Akira Kurosawa
in 1968
1 moment here
Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, editor, and painter. Kurosawa directed 30 feature films between 1943 and 1993, including Rashomon, Seven…
Alexander Prokhorov
in 1968
1 moment here
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…
Andy Warhol
in 1968
2 moments here
American artist and filmmaker whose work helped define Pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied there before moving to New York in 1949.…
Anwar Sadat
in 1968
1 moment here
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…
Aretha Franklin
in 1968
3 moments here
American singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil-rights activist known as the “Queen of Soul.” Her documented movements span childhood relocations…
Audrey Hepburn
in 1968
1 moment here
British actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Ruston) was born in Brussels, raised across Belgium, England and the Netherlands,…
Augusto Pinochet
in 1968
2 moments here
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer who led the 11 September 1973 coup and ruled Chile as head of the military junta and then…
Bob Marley
in 1968
1 moment here
Jamaican singer, songwriter and guitarist whose work with the Wailers made reggae an international musical force.…
Brigitte Bardot
in 1968
1 moment here
French actress, singer, model, and animal-rights activist. Born and raised in Paris, Bardot became an international film star in the 1950s and 1960s…
Carl Sagan
in 1968
2 moments here
American astronomer, planetary scientist, educator, author, and science communicator. Sagan studied at the University of Chicago, held appointments…
Charles de Gaulle
in 1968
1 moment here
French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…
Chinua Achebe
in 1968
1 moment here
Nigerian novelist, poet, critic, editor, educator, and Biafran representative whose life moved between southeastern Nigeria, Lagos, East Africa,…
Christiaan Barnard
in 1968
2 moments here
South African cardiac surgeon who led the team that performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape…
Claude Simon
in 1968
1 moment here
French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…
Dalida
in 1968
1 moment here
Dalida, born Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was an Egyptian-born Italian-French singer, actress and model.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1968
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Elvis Presley
in 1968
1 moment here
American singer and actor Elvis Aaron Presley, widely known as the “King of Rock and Roll.” Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, he grew up in Memphis,…
Eusébio
in 1968
1 moment here
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira (1942–2014) was a Portuguese footballer, born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), who became Benfica's record goalscorer and…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
in 1968
3 moments here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
Garrincha
in 1968
1 moment here
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, known as Garrincha, was a Brazilian right winger. He spent most of his club career with Botafogo and won the FIFA World…
Gherman Titov
in 1968
1 moment here
Soviet Air Force pilot, cosmonaut, and later Russian politician. Titov flew Vostok 2 on 6–7 August 1961, becoming the second human to orbit Earth and…
Moments
- 1968 OAU Council of Ministers presidency Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- 1968 Olympic-team training Abebe Bikila
- 1968 PhD at the Weizmann Institute Ada Yonath
- 1968 Moderna Museet appearance Andy Warhol
- 1968 First overseas tour appearance Aretha Franklin
- 1968 Second Army Division staff posting Augusto Pinochet
- 1968 Sixth Division command Augusto Pinochet
- 1968 Jam session in the Bronx Bob Marley
- 1968 Meeting John Lennon at the May Fair Hotel Brigitte Bardot
- 1968 Move to Cornell Carl Sagan
- 1968 First visit to New York Claude Simon
- 1968 Graduation from Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy Gherman Titov
- 1968 Visit to Rio de Janeiro Indira Gandhi
- 1968 Arrest during the May 1968 strikes Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1968 Conversation with Huston Smith Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 1968 Amsterdam concert collapse Jim Morrison
- 1968 LLM at the London School of Economics John Atta Mills
- 1968 Move to Buffalo John Eccles
- 1968 Eldoret Agricultural Show Jomo Kenyatta
- 1968 Continuation of Norton Lectures Jorge Luis Borges
- 1968 Move to Poole in retirement J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1968 The Lion in Winter filming at Montmajour Abbey Katharine Hepburn
- 1968 Visiting professor at Göttingen Lars Onsager
- 1968 Lobbying British leaders over military withdrawal Lee Kuan Yew
- 1968 Return flight to Hanoi Lê Đức Thọ
- 1968 Second Broadway engagement Marlene Dietrich
- 1968 Walk through Harlem after King's assassination Marlon Brando
- 1968 Latin American University Theatre Festival Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1968 Relocation to Guinea Miriam Makeba
- 1968 Travel in the Bahamas Miriam Makeba
- 1968 Awka-sector posting Muhammadu Buhari
- 1968 Tet visit to his wife's family Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
- 1968 Refuge in Paris after resignation Octavio Paz
- 1968 Al-Thager Model School attendance Osama bin Laden
- 1968 K-5 base at Naga's Tail Pol Pot
- 1968 Settles in Delhi after marriage Rajiv Gandhi
- 1968 Arrival in Perth Robin Warren
- 1968 Royal Perth Hospital pathology post Robin Warren
- 1968 Philadelphia Black Power conference Rosa Parks
- 1968 Begins Homestead High School Steve Jobs
- 1968 Medical treatment in Hungary Võ Nguyên Giáp
- 1968 Homosexual Wedding happening Yayoi Kusama
- 1968 Performance at Fillmore East Yayoi Kusama
- 1968 Beginning service as ambassador to the United States Yitzhak Rabin
- 1968 House arrest in Larkana Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1968 Speech at Malvern Town Hall Gough Whitlam
- 1968 Death at the provost's lodgings Howard Florey
- 1968 Arrival for Rishikesh retreat John Lennon
- 1968 Meditation retreat at Maharishi's ashram John Lennon
- 1968 Meeting with President Johnson U Thant