Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1948

William Nicholas Selig fue un pionero de la industria cinematográfica estadounidense. En 1896 creó una de las primeras productoras cinematográficas, Selig Polyscope Company. En 1910, estableció uno de los primeros estudios importantes en Los Ángeles.

George Noble Plunkett KCHS was an Irish nationalist politician, museum director and biographer, who served as Minister for Fine Arts from 1921 to 1922, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1921 and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1927. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Roscommon North from 1917 to 1922.

Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, better known as Caroline Lacroix, was the most prominent and notorious of Leopold II of Belgium's mistresses.

Mary Eaton fue una actriz, cantante y bailarina estadounidense cuya carrera se desarrolló principalmente en las décadas de 1910 y 1920.

Pompeu Fabra i Poch fue un ingeniero industrial y lingüista español, conocido por haber establecido la normativa moderna de la lengua catalana.

Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian. He had also been President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947.

Andrew Ramsay "Bunny" Don-Wauchope was a Scottish international rugby union back who played club rugby for Cambridge and Fettesian-Lorettonian. Don Wauchope played an important role within the early growth of Scottish rugby and after retiring from international rugby he became a referee and was the President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He was considered Scotland's outstanding half-back of the early 1880s and is credited as being one of the pioneers of modern half-back play.

William Burress was an American actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1915 to 1939.

Raymond Benedict McCarey was an American film director, brother of director Leo McCarey.

Väinö Tanner (1881–1948) was a Finnish geographer, geologist and diplomat. Tanner is best known for his studies on the Quaternary geology of northern Finland. He was a vocal opponent to the Finnicization of the University of Helsinki.