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Deaths on the year of 1948 in history

Deaths
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01 Jan 1948 Hermann K J Zilcher: German pianist / Composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66
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01 Jan 1948 Willem Louis Frederic Landre: Composer, dies at 73
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02 Jan 1948 Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
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07 Jan 1948 Raoul Auernheimer: Writer
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08 Jan 1948 Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor and actor (b. 1891)
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08 Jan 1948 Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887)
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14 Jan 1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike: Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
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14 Jan 1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
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15 Jan 1948 Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)
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19 Jan 1948 Tony Garnier, French architect, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
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20 Jan 1948 Mahatma Gandhi India's pacifist, assassinated
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21 Jan 1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer and educator (b. 1876)
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24 Jan 1948 Maria Mandl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1912)
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26 Jan 1948 John Lomax, American musicologist and academic (b. 1867)
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26 Jan 1948 Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1882)
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26 Jan 1948 Ignaz Friedman composer, dies at 65
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28 Jan 1948 Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (b. 1901)
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28 Jan 1948 Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
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28 Jan 1948 Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
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29 Jan 1948 Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900)
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30 Jan 1948 Mahatma Ghandi: Murdered by Hindu extremists in India
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30 Jan 1948 Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer; co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871)
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30 Jan 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, philosopher, and activist (b. 1869)
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30 Jan 1948 Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
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30 Jan 1948 Herb Pennock pitcher (New York Yankees)/GM (Phillies), dies
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02 Feb 1948 Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
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02 Feb 1948 Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
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05 Feb 1948 Johann Blaskowitz: German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
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05 Feb 1948 Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
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06 Feb 1948 Robert Brasillach: French Author / Nazi collaborator, dies at 38
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07 Feb 1948 "Red" McKenzie: Blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper)
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09 Feb 1948 Karl Valentin: German comic / writer, dies at 65
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10 Feb 1948 Ewart Astill cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies
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10 Feb 1948 Sergei Eisenstein Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
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11 Feb 1948 Sergy Eisenstein film director, dies at 50
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14 Feb 1948 Mordecai Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1876)
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15 Feb 1948 Subhadra Kumari Chauhan Indian poet (b. 1904)
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21 Feb 1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond composer, dies at 80
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23 Feb 1948 John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
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29 Feb 1948 Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
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04 Mar 1948 Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
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06 Mar 1948 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American author, poet, and academic (b. 1914)
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08 Mar 1948 Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and seismologist (b. 1889)
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09 Mar 1948 Edgar de Wahl, Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and scholar (b. 1867)
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10 Mar 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
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10 Mar 1948 Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
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24 Mar 1948 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
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25 Mar 1948 Warren Hymer actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
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26 Mar 1948 Emile St. Godard, Canadian dog sled racer (b. 1905)
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26 Mar 1948 Helen Ernst German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
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27 Mar 1948 Henry Hamilton Beamish, English-Rhodesian politician (b. 1873)
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27 Mar 1948 Karel Candael Flemish composer, dies at 64
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30 Mar 1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
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31 Mar 1948 Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
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02 Apr 1948 Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
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08 Apr 1948 Josef B Kjellgren: Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40
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09 Apr 1948 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Colombian Minister of National Education (b. 1903)
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09 Apr 1948 George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
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14 Apr 1948 Gerhard Ansch
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14 Apr 1948 Walter P Reuther President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
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15 Apr 1948 Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
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16 Apr 1948 Babe Ruth baseball legend, dies
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17 Apr 1948 Suzuki Kantarō, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
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17 Apr 1948 Johan P Earl of Limburg Stirum diplomat, dies at 75
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17 Apr 1948 Percy Sherwell cricketer (South Africa captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies
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21 Apr 1948 Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
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21 Apr 1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo composer, dies at 66
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24 Apr 1948 Joseph Wihtol composer, dies at 84
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24 Apr 1948 Manuel Marua Ponce Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
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24 Apr 1948 Rosita Marstini actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
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01 May 1948 Christos Ladas: Greek Minister of Justice, murdered
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03 May 1948 Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)
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06 May 1948 43 communist rebels executed in Athens
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08 May 1948 Alfred Holy: Composer, dies at 81
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08 May 1948 U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)
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12 May 1948 Dante Cappelli, Italian actor and director (b. 1866)
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12 May 1948 Isidor Achron composer, dies at 55
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13 May 1948 Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
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15 May 1948 Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)
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22 May 1948 Claude McKaye Jamaican/US poet/author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies in Chicago at 57
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24 May 1948 Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
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24 May 1948 Alfred Kastner composer, dies at 78
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25 May 1948 Jacques Feyder actor/director (kermesse h
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26 May 1948 Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (b. 1896)
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26 May 1948 Theodor Morell, German physician (b. 1886)
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29 May 1948 May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
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30 May 1948 József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (b. 1874)
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31 May 1948 Jose Vianna da Motta composer, dies at 80
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01 Jun 1948 Alex Gard, Russian cartoonist (b. 1900)
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01 Jun 1948 Sonny Boy Williamson, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1914)
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02 Jun 1948 Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
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02 Jun 1948 Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
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02 Jun 1948 Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
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02 Jun 1948 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
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02 Jun 1948 Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
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06 Jun 1948 Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
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07 Jun 1948 Georges Adolphe Hue: Composer, dies at 90
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08 Jun 1948 Franz Carl Bornschein: Composer, dies at 69
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13 Jun 1948 Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
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14 Jun 1948 Ernst Henrik Ellberg: Composer, dies at 79
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14 Jun 1948 John Blackwood McEwen: Composer, dies at 80
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20 Jun 1948 George Frederick Boyle: Composer, dies at 61
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25 Jun 1948 William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
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26 Jun 1948 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1924)
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27 Jun 1948 George Templeton Strong: Composer, dies at 92
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30 Jun 1948 Karl Wolfskehl: Writer, dies at 78
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01 Jul 1948 Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
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03 Jul 1948 Adrien H Gerhard: Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
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04 Jul 1948 Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
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05 Jul 1948 G Bernanos: Writer, dies at 60
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05 Jul 1948 Peter JM Aalberse: Dutch Minister of Labor, dies at 77
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05 Jul 1948 Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
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05 Jul 1948 Carole Landis, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
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11 Jul 1948 Gerhard Kittel: German anti-semite theologist
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11 Jul 1948 King Baggot: Actor (Tish, San Francisco), dies at 68
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15 Jul 1948 John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
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18 Jul 1948 Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
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21 Jul 1948 Donald Nichols Tweedy: Composer, dies at 58
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21 Jul 1948 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
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23 Jul 1948 D[avid] W[ark] Griffith: US director / producer
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23 Jul 1948 D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)
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27 Jul 1948 Francesco Spetrino: Composer, dies at 91
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27 Jul 1948 Woolf Barnato, English race car driver (b. 1898)
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27 Jul 1948 Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
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31 Jul 1948 Maria "Marie" Hens: Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70
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03 Aug 1948 Albert F Pollard: British Historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
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05 Aug 1948 Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
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07 Aug 1948 Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
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09 Aug 1948 Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885)
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10 Aug 1948 E Ball-Hennings: Writer, dies at 63
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10 Aug 1948 Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1873)
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10 Aug 1948 Andrew Brown, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1870)
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10 Aug 1948 Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (b. 1880)
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13 Aug 1948 Edwin Maxwell: Actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62
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13 Aug 1948 Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
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16 Aug 1948 Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
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17 Aug 1948 Nico J Polak: Dutch economist, dies at 60
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20 Aug 1948 David John de Lloyd: Composer, dies at 65
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27 Aug 1948 Oley Speaks: Composer, dies at 74
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27 Aug 1948 Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez: Composer, dies at 50
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31 Aug 1948 Andrei A Zjdanov: Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52
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31 Aug 1948 Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
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31 Aug 1948 Andrei Zhdanov, Russian politician (b. 1896)
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02 Sep 1948 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
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03 Sep 1948 Eduard Benesj: President Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
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03 Sep 1948 Edvard Beneš, Czech politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
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05 Sep 1948 Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (b. 1881)
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06 Sep 1948 Gerrit H Kersten: Vicar / founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
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07 Sep 1948 Henricus A Poels: Dutch RC Theologist / social foreman, dies at 80
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08 Sep 1948 Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho author (b. 1876)
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09 Sep 1948 James Baskett
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10 Sep 1948 Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
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11 Sep 1948 Mohammed Ali Jinnah: 1st Governor of Pakistan (1947-48), dies at 71
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11 Sep 1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
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11 Sep 1948 Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah dies
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13 Sep 1948 Paul Wegener: German actor / director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73
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16 Sep 1948 Ferdinand I MKLM: Prince of Saxony-Coburg / tsar of Bulgaria
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17 Sep 1948 Lillian Brainthwaite: British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75
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17 Sep 1948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1887)
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17 Sep 1948 Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (b. 1895)
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17 Sep 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
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20 Sep 1948 Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (b. 1881)
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24 Sep 1948 Warren William, American actor and singer (b. 1894)
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27 Sep 1948 Frank Cellier: Actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64
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28 Sep 1948 EJ Ratcliffe
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28 Sep 1948 Gregg Toland: Cinematographer, dies at 44
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10 Oct 1948 Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
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12 Oct 1948 Alfred Kerr: Writer, dies at 80
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12 Oct 1948 Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
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13 Oct 1948 Samuel S Hinds: Actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73
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15 Oct 1948 Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
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18 Oct 1948 [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch: German Field Marshal
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18 Oct 1948 Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
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22 Oct 1948 Augustyn Hlond: Polish cardinal
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23 Oct 1948 Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa: Composer, dies at 71
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24 Oct 1948 Franz Lehar: Austrian / Hungarian Composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78
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24 Oct 1948 Franz Lehár, Slovak composer (b. 1870)
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24 Oct 1948 Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)
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31 Oct 1948 Cissy van Marxfield [Setske Beek-de Han]: Writer
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04 Nov 1948 Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1874)
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09 Nov 1948 Edgar Kennedy: Actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
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10 Nov 1948 Julius Curtius: German Foreign Minister (1929- ), dies at 71
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12 Nov 1948 Umberto Giordano: Composer, dies at 81
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23 Nov 1948 Stanner E V Taylor: US director / writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71
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23 Nov 1948 Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov: Composer, dies at 63
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24 Nov 1948 Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski: Composer, dies at 64
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25 Nov 1948 Charles D Brown: Actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
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30 Nov 1948 Franco Vittadini: Composer, dies at 64
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04 Dec 1948 Karl Bonhoeffer: German psychiatrist / neurologist
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04 Dec 1948 Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883)
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07 Dec 1948 Godfrey Turner: Composer, dies at 35
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10 Dec 1948 Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896)
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14 Dec 1948 Reginald Owen Morris composer, dies at 62
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16 Dec 1948 Denham Fouts, American prostitute (b. 1914)
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17 Dec 1948 Edgar Istel composer, dies at 68
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18 Dec 1948 Janet Fay hammered to death by the Honeymoon Killers
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20 Dec 1948 C Aubrey Smith actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
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20 Dec 1948 Ladha Ramji cricketer (brother of Amar Singh, Test India 1933-34), dies
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21 Dec 1948 Seishiro Itagaki Japanese general/Minister of War, hanged
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23 Dec 1948 Akira Mutō, Japanese general (b. 1883)
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23 Dec 1948 Hideki Tojo, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
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28 Dec 1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha: Prime Minister of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
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31 Dec 1948 Malcolm Campbell English race driver, dies at 63
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