Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1948

Harry Farjeon was a British composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years.

The Hon. Osmund Scott was an English cricketer. He played for Gloucestershire in 1905. Scott was also a golfer; he was runner-up in the 1905 Amateur Championship.

Henry Hamilton Beamish was a leading British antisemitic journalist and the founder of The Britons in 1919, the first organisation set up in Britain for the express purpose of diffusing antisemitic propaganda. After a conviction for libel the same year, Beamish fled Britain and began a career of touring speaker, travelling to Germany, Canada, the United States or Japan in order to promote antisemitic and fascist causes. In 1923, he spoke at one of Adolf Hitler's meetings in Munich, and met Julius Streicher in Nuremberg in 1937. Beamish settled in Southern Rhodesia in 1938, where he served as an independent Member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly between 1938 and 1940, then was interned for three years during the Second World War due to his pro-Nazi sentiments. Upon his release, Beamish returned to England and died in March 1948, aged 74.

Princess Marie-Louise Razafinkeriefo of Madagascar was the last heir apparent and pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She was a grandniece, and the adoptive daughter, of Ranavalona III. During World War II she worked as a nurse and was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her medical service.

Frederick Preston Cone was an American politician who served as the 27th Governor of Florida.

Edgar Warren Hymer was an American actor.

Yahya Mohamed Hamidaddin (1869-1948) se hizo el Imán de los Zayidis en 1904 y el Rey de Yemen en 1926. Su nombre completo era S.M. Amir Al-Mumenin Al-Mutawakkil ' Ala Alá Rab ul-Alamin, Imán Yahya Mohamed Al-Mansur Bi'llah Hamidaddin, Imán y Comandante de los Fieles, y Rey de Yemen. Murió durante una tentativa de golpe fracasada en 1948 y fue sucedido por su hijo el Imán Ahmad.

Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, más conocido como Arshile Gorky, fue un pintor armenio naturalizado estadounidense y exponente del arte abstracto.

Gregg Toland, A.S.C. fue un director de fotografía estadounidense conocido por su uso innovador de la iluminación y técnicas como la profundidad de campo , ejemplos de los cuales se pueden encontrar en su trabajo en Citizen Kane, Los mejores años de nuestra vida y The Long Voyage Home

Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby,, styled Mr Edward Stanley until 1886, then The Hon Edward Stanley and then Lord Stanley from 1893 to 1908, was a British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat, and racehorse owner. He was twice Secretary of State for War and also served as British Ambassador to France.