1948 Deaths
- Brown, Mordecai (Three Finger) (14 February)
- Eisenstein, Sergei (11 February)
- Gandhi, Mohandas (30 January)
- Griffith, D.W. (21 July)
- Jinnah, Muhammad Ali (11 September)
- Lumiére, Louis
- Pershing, John J. (15 July)
- Roosevelt, Edith (30 September)
- Ruth, Babe (16 August)
- Tojo, Hideki (23 December)