Famous People Who Died In 1948
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1948. This list includes people like Mahatma Gandhi, Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Zelda Fitzgerald, Hideki Tojo and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include soldiers, political leaders, artists and military leaders who died in 1948. This list includes people from United States, Germany, Japan & India and many more countries.
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Hugo Boss
08 July 1885
German
John J. Pershing(Officer, Lawyer, Politician)
13 September 1860
American
Sergei Eisenstein(Film director)
22 January 1898
Russian
Osamu Dazai(Writer, Novelist)
19 June 1909
Japanese
Manuel Roxas(Politician, Autobiographer, University teacher)
01 January 1892
Filipino
Edith Roosevelt(Former First Lady of the United States)
06 August 1861
American
Walther von Brauchitsch(Military personnel)
04 October 1881
German
Theodor Morell(Physician)
22 July 1886
German
Edvard Beneš(Lecturer, Politician, Association football player)
28 May 1884
Czech
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria(Ruler)
26 February 1861
German
Maria Mandl(Prison officer, Torturer)
10 January 1912
Austrian
Folke Bernadotte(Politician, Diplomat, Military personnel)
02 January 1895
Swedish
Kurt Schwitters(Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Graphic designer, Writer)
20 June 1887
German
Ruth Benedict(Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher, Poet, Sociologist, Biographer)
05 June 1887
American
Guillermo Kahlo(Photographer)
26 October 1871
Mexican
Harry Dexter White(Economist)
09 October 1892
American
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan(Author, Poet)
16 August 1904
Indian
Johannes Blaskowitz(Military personnel)
10 July 1883
German
Iwane Matsui(Soldier, Military personnel)
27 July 1878
Japanese
Karl Gebhardt(Surgeon, Torturer, University teacher)
23 November 1897
German
Weston Price(dentist, nutritionist)
06 September 1870
American
Andrei Zhdanov(politician, military personnel)
14 February 1896
Russian
Franz Lehár(Composer)
30 April 1870
Austrian,Hungarian
Charles A. Beard(Historian of the modern age, Historian, University teacher)
27 November 1874
American
George Beurling(Aviator, Military personnel)
06 December 1921
Canadian
Malcolm Campbell(Journalist, Racecar driver)
11 March 1885
British
Yellapragada Subbarow(Biochemist)
12 January 1895
Indian
Viktor Brack(Torturer)
09 November 1904
German
Irmfried Eberl(Physician, Psychiatrist)
08 September 1910
Austrian,German
Otto Rasch(Politician, Lawyer)
07 December 1891
German
Wolfram Sievers(Politician)
10 July 1905
German
Gregg Toland(Cinematographer)
29 May 1904
American
Kenji Doihara(Military personnel)
08 August 1883
Japanese
Sigrid Hjertén(Painter)
27 October 1885
Swedish
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma(Military personnel)
11 September 1891
German
Mitsumasa Yonai(Politician,Prime Minister)
02 March 1880
Japanese
Isaac Isaacs(Judge, Politician, Barrister)
06 June 1855
Australian
D.W. Griffith(Film Actor, Theater Actor, Director)
1875 AD
Monteiro Lobato(Linguist, Journalist, Writer, Publisher, Children's writer, Novelist, Translator)
18 April 1882
Brazilian
Umberto Giordano(Composer)
28 August 1867
Italian
Umberto Giordano(Composer)
28 August 1867
Italian
Laura Wheeler Waring(American artist)
16 May 1887
American
Sonny Boy Williamson(Singer)
1914 AD
Ann Macbeth(painter)
1875 AD
British
Janie Porter Barrett(American educator)
09 August 1865
American
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.(Officer)
01 October 1874
American
Thomas Peacock(Officer)
18 February 1920
American
Kōki Hirota(Politician, Diplomat)
14 February 1878
Japanese
Władysław T. Benda(Painter)
15 January 1873
Polish