December 11, 1968

1968Emmanuelle Charpentier, French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, and Nobel laureate^[†]

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing". This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.

1968Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer and manager^[†]

Fabrizio Ravanelli is an Italian football manager and former international player.

1968Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (born 1910)^[†]

Richard Sagrits was an Estonian painter.

1968Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (born 1891)^[†]

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than doubled, reaching 5,200; advertising linage grew from 19 million to 62 million column inches per year; and gross income increased almost sevenfold, reaching $117 million.