page_title: 1968
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1968 / Deaths / July
caption_attribution_description: Otto Hahn
context_page_description: 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
  The year was defined by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
context_section_description: July 1 – Virginia Weidler, American actress (b. 1927)
  July 3 – Emanoil Bârzotescu, Romanian general (b. 1888)
  July 6 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (b. 1906)
  July 18 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
  July 21 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (b. 1878)
  July 28
  Otto Hahn, German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
  Ángel Herrera Oria, Spanish journalist, Roman Catholic politician, cardinal and servant of God (b. 1886)
  July 31 – Jack Pizzey, Premier of Queensland, Australia (b. 1911)
caption: Otto Hahn
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