Deaths Date 1948 | History by KabAstro

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)

Jan 21 Italian light opera composer, dies at 72

Jan 24 Arthur Liebehenschel, Polish Commandant at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, executed for war crimes at 48
Jan 24 Maria Mandl, Austrian Nazi concentration camp worker (Lichtenburg; Ravensbrück) extermination camp official (Auschwitz II-Birkenau), and convicted war criminal, executed by hanging at 36
Jan 26 Ignaz Friedman, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 65
Jan 29 Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
Jan 30 Herb Pennock, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 × World Series; Philadelphia A's, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees), dies at 53

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Jan 30 Indian independence activist and spiritual leader, assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu extremists at 78

Orville Wright (1871-1948)

Jan 30 American aviator (Wright Brothers), dies at 76

Feb 2 Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (Olympic gold 400m 1920), dies at 53
Feb 2 Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
Feb 5 Johann Blaskowitz, German general (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
Feb 7 Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies at 48
Feb 9 Karl Valentin, Bavarian comedian and film producer, dies at 65
Feb 10 Ewart Astill, England cricket all-rounder (9 Tests, Leicestershire), dies at 59
Feb 11 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
Feb 14 Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1907, 08; NL wins leader 1909; MLB ERA leader 1906; Chicago Cubs), dies at 71
Feb 19 Bob Groom, American baseball pitcher (Washington Senators; no-hitter 1917 St. Louis Browns), dies at 63
Feb 21 Frederick Lamond, Scottish pianist and composer, dies at 80
Feb 23 John Robert Gregg, Irish-American inventor of a shorthand system Gregg Shorthand, dies at 80
Mar 3 Antonin Artaud, French songwriter and director (Theatre Seraphin), dies at 51
Mar 4 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
Mar 5 Charles Prince, cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies
Mar 6 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
Mar 8 Emily Bissell, American welfare worker and founder of Christmas Seals, dies at 86
Mar 10 Jan Masaryk, Czech statesman and Minister to London (1918-35), commits suicide or is murdered at 61
Mar 10 Zelda Fitzgerald [née Sayre], American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 47
Mar 13 Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the U.K., dies at 77
Mar 24 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter, dies at 62
Mar 25 Warren Hymer, American actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob), dies from a stomach ailment at 42
Mar 26 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
Mar 27 Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64
Mar 28 Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon, dies at 77
Mar 29 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian 'Functionalist' architect (Pärnu Beach Hotel), dies at 66
Mar 31 Egon Kisch, Austrian-Czech writer and journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
Apr 2 Sabahattin Ali, Turkish poet, author and journalist (Esirler, Içimizdeki Şeytan), killed at 41
Apr 8 Josef Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40
Apr 9 George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 75
Apr 9 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)

Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)

Apr 15 5th President of the Philippines (1946-48), dies of a heart attack at 56

Apr 15 Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician, dies at 56
Apr 17 Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat (Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1916-21), dies at 75
Apr 17 Percy Sherwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper and captain (13 Tests, 1 x 100, 36 dismissals; Transvaal), dies at 67
Apr 21 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, Argentine composer, dies at 66
Apr 24 Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer, dies at 84
Apr 24 Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
Apr 24 Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
May 1 Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered
May 6 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
May 8 Alfred Holy, Czech composer and harpist, dies at 81
May 8 U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900)
May 12 Isidor Achron, American composer, dies of a heart attack at 55
May 15 Edward Flanagan, Irish-American Catholic priest and founder of Boys Town, dies of a heart attack at 61
May 22 Carlo Perrier, Italian mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element technetium, dies at 61
May 22 Claude McKaye, Jamaican-American author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57
May 24 Alfred Kastner, Austrian-American harpist and composer, dies at 78
May 24 Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)

Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)

May 25 Polish WWII resistance fighter (volunteered to go to Auschwitz, Witold's Report), executed by communist secret police after a show trial at age 47

May 26 Theodore Morell, German doctor, Hitler's personal physician, dies at 61
May 28 Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer and one of the Mitford sisters, dies from the effects of a bullet in her head at 33
May 29 May Whitty, English actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82
May 31 José Vianna da Motta, Portuguese composer, dies at 80
Jun 1 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
Jun 1 Sonny Boy Williamson I [John Lee], American blues musician (Down & Out Blues), dies at 34
Jun 2 Karl Brandt, German Nazi physician of Adolf Hitler, executed by hanging for war crimes at 44
Jun 2 Karl Gebhardt, German Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates), executed by hanging at 50
Jun 2 Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal, executed by hanging at 43
Jun 2 Waldemar Hoven, German Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates at Buchenwald), executed by hanging at 43
Jun 2 Wolfram Sievers, German Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for atrocities while director of the SS), executed by hanging at 42
Jun 6 Louis Lumière, French inventor, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, dies at 83
Jun 7 Georges Hüe, French composer, dies at 90
Jun 8 Franz Carl Bornschein, American composer, dies at 69
Jun 8 Sammy Carter, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 65 dismissals; NSWCA), dies at 70
Jun 13 Osamu Dazai [pseudonym of Tsushima Shūji, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human), commits suicide at 38
Jun 14 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, Swedish composer, dies at 79
Jun 14 John Blackwood McEwen, Scottish classical composer, dies at 80
Jun 18 Edward Brooker, British politician (interim Premier of Tasmania, Dec 1947-Feb 1948), dies of a pulmonary edema at 57
Jun 20 George Frederick Boyle, Australian-American composer, dies at 61
Jun 21 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist and classicist (On Growth & Form), dies at 88
Jun 25 William C. Lee, U.S. general 'Father of the US Airboure', dies at 53
Jun 26 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (Sa Kabukiran), murdered by former co-star Narding Anzures at 24
Jun 27 George Templeton Strong, American composer, dies at 92
Jun 30 Karl Wolfskehl, German Jewish writer, dies at 78
Jul 1 Achille Varzi, Italian auto racer (14 Grand Prix wins), dies in practise crash at 43
Jul 3 Quintin McMillan, South African cricket spin bowler (13 Tests, 36 wickets; Transvaal), dies at 44
Jul 4 Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
Jul 5 Carole Landis [Frances Ridste], American actress (I Wake Up Screaming; One Million BC; Topper Returns), allegedly commits suicide at 29
Jul 5 Georges Bernanos, French writer (The Diary of the Country Priest), dies at 60
Jul 5 Piet Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25), dies at 77
Jul 8 Dave Nourse, South African cricket all-rounder (45 Tests, 1 x 100, 41 wickets; Natal, Transvaal, Western Province), dies at 69
Jul 8 George Mehnert, American wrestler (Olympic gold flyweight 1904, bantamweight 1908), dies at 66
Jul 9 James Baskett, American actor (Song of the South) 1st African American male to receive an Oscar, dies from diabetes at 44
Jul 11 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist (Die Oden Salomons), dies at 59
Jul 11 King Baggot, American actor and director (Tumbleweeds), dies at 68

John J. Pershing (1860-1948)

Jul 15 American army general and World War I commander known as "Black Jack", dies of coronary artery disease at 87

Jul 18 Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
Jul 21 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American abstract painter, dies at 43
Jul 21 Donald Nichols Tweedy, American composer, dies at 58

D. W. Griffith (1875-1948)

Jul 23 American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73

Jul 26 Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies
Jul 27 Francesco Spetrino, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 91
Jul 27 Joe Tinker, American Baseball HOF shortstop (World Series 1907, 08 Chicago Orphans/Cubs) and manager (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs), dies of complications from diabetes at 68
Jul 27 Woolf Barnato, British financier and racing driver, dies at 52
Jul 30 Sophonisba Breckenridge, American professor, teacher and social activist (1st woman to graduate from Chicago Uni Law School), dies at 82 [1]
Jul 31 Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70
Aug 3 Albert Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
Aug 3 Tommy Ryan, American boxer (World Welterweight, Middleweight champion), dies at 78
Aug 6 Cyril Walker, English golfer (US Open 1924), dies of pleural pneumonia at 55
Aug 9 Hugo Boss, German fashion designer (Hugo Boss), dies at 63
Aug 10 Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
Aug 10 Emmy Hennings-Ball [Emma Cordsen], German poet and performer dies at 63
Aug 10 Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian, writer, and peace activist, dies at 74
Aug 10 Lucille Bogan, American blues singer and songwriter ("Sweet Petunia"; "Black Angel Blues"), dies from coronary sclerosis at 51
Aug 10 Montague Summers, English clergyman and writer (Malleus Maleficarum), dies at 68
Aug 12 Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
Aug 13 Edwin Maxwell, Irish actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62
Aug 13 Elaine Hammerstein, American stage and silent film actress, dies in a Tijuana car crash at 51

Aug 16 American Baseball Hall of Fame slugger (MLB All-Star 1933, 34; 7 x World Series champion; 12 × AL home run leader 1918–21, 23-24, 1926–31; Boston RS, NY Yankees), dies of Nasopharynx cancer at 53

Aug 17 Nico J. Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60
Aug 20 David John de Lloyd, Welsh musician composer, dies at 65
Aug 26 Oscar L. Fernandez, Brazilian conductor and composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
Aug 27 Charles Evans Hughes, American statesman, Republican politician and 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41), dies at 86
Aug 27 Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), dies at 74
Aug 27 Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, Brazilian conductor and composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
Aug 28 Eleni Gatzoyiannis, Greek heroine (subject of "Eleni" by son Nicholas Gage about how she saved her children), shot and killed by communists at 41
Aug 31 Andrei Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52
Aug 31 Billy Laughlin, American child actor (Froggy- Our Gang), dies in a car accident at 16
Sep 1 Charles A. Beard, American historian (American Continentalism), dies at 73
Sep 2 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy, dies at 65

Edvard Beneš (1884-1948)

Sep 3 Czech politician, statesman, and 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (1935-38, 1945-48), dies at 64

Sep 5 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
Sep 6 Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
Sep 7 Henricus Andreas Poels, Dutch Roman Catholic theologist and social foreman, dies at 80
Sep 8 Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
Sep 10 Ferdinand I, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18), dies at 87
Sep 11 Albert Powell, South African cricketer and Rugby player (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies at 75

Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)

Sep 11 Founder of Pakistan who led the All-India Muslim League (1913-47) until he achieved his dream of Pakistan and became its 1st Governor-General (1947-48), dies of tuberculous at 71

Sep 13 Paul Wegener, German actor and director (The Golem, The Student of Prague), dies at 73
Sep 16 Ferdinand I MKLM, prince of Saxony-Coburg/tsar of Bulgaria, dies
Sep 17 Ferruccio Giannini, Italian-American operatic tenor (one of the first to be recorded), teacher, and impresario (Verdi Opera House, Philadelphia), dies at 79
Sep 17 Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (Red Cross; UN mediator for Palestine), assassinated by a Zionist group at 53
Sep 17 Lillian Braithwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75
Sep 17 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture), dies at 61
Sep 21 Bokke R. S. Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist, poet, and author (Lok en Lijen (Happiness and Suffering)), dies at 65
Sep 24 Warren William [Krech], American actor (The Wolf Man, Cleopatra), dies of multiple myeloma at 53
Sep 27 Frank Cellier, British actor (Quiet Wedding;, Big Blockade), dies from ill health at 64
Sep 28 E. J. Ratcliffe, English stage and screen actor, dies at 85
Sep 28 Gregg Toland, American influential cinematographer (Citizen Kane, Wuthering Heights), dies of coronary thrombosis at 44

Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)

Sep 30 US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, dies at 87

Oct 4 Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator (first nonstop airplane crossing of the Atlantic with John W. Alcock), dies at 62
Oct 8 Sven Holger Körling, Swedish organist, music teacher, and composer of children's songs, dies at 69
Oct 12 Alfred Kerr, German-British writer, dies at 80
Oct 12 Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist and psychoanalyst, dies at 63
Oct 13 Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73
Oct 15 Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
Oct 16 Henry Foley, New Zealand cricket batsman (1 Test; NZ's first Test match; Wellington CA), dies at 42
Oct 18 Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (WWII), dies before his war crimes trail starts, at 67
Oct 22 August Hlond, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, dies at 67
Oct 23 Eugeniusz Morawski-Dabrowa, Polish composer, dies at 71

Franz Lehár (1870-1948)

Oct 24 Austrian-Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78

Oct 31 Cissy van Marxfield [Setske Beek-de Han], Dutch children's writer, dies at 58
Nov 9 Edgar Kennedy, American silent and sound screen character actor famous for his 'slow burn' (Laurel & Hardy films; Duck Soup; "Average Man" shorts) and director (From Soup to Nuts), dies of throat cancer at 58
Nov 10 Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), dies at 71
Nov 12 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer, chiefly of opera (was Andrea Chénier; Fedora; La cena delle beffe), dies at 81
Nov 16 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American Inventor (electrostatic precipitator), dies at 71
Nov 19 Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer of travel literature (Life on Puka Puka), dies at 52

Hack Wilson (1900-1948)

Nov 23 American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (MLB single season record 191 RBI 1930; NL HR leader 1926–28, 30; NL RBI leader 1929, 30; Chicago Cubs), dies of internal haemorrhaging at 48

Nov 23 Stanner E.V. Taylor, American director and screenwriter (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71
Nov 23 Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Soviet composer who composed the anthem used by Azerbaijan during the Soviet period, dies at 63
Nov 24 Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer, dies at 64
Nov 25 Charles D. Brown, American actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
Nov 25 Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
Nov 30 Franco Vittadini, Italian composer, dies at 64
Dec 4 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist and neurologist (resisted Nazi's Aktion T4 extermination campaign), dies at 80
Dec 7 Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35
Dec 9 Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies
Dec 14 R. O. Morris [Reginald Owen], British composer and music teacher, dies at 62
Dec 17 Edgar Istel, German composer, dies at 68
Dec 18 Janet Fay, American murder victim of the Lonely Hearts Killers (later filmed as "The Honeymoon Killers"), hammered to death at 66
Dec 18 William Arms Fisher, American composer, librettist (Going Home), musicologist, and educator, dies at 87
Dec 20 C Aubrey Smith [Charles], British actor (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
Dec 20 Ladha Ramji, cricketer (bro of Amar Singh, Test Ind 1933-34), dies

Hideki Tojo (1884-1948)

Dec 23 Japanese Prime Minister during WW II (1941-44), hanged for war crimes at 64

Dec 23 Seishirō Itagaki, Japanese military officer and politician (War Minister, 1938-39), hanged for war crimes at 63
Dec 28 Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, Egyptian politician and the 27th Prime Minister of Egypt (1946-48), assassinated at 60 by veterinary student and Muslim Brotherhood member Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan