Famous People Who Died in 1948

• Brown, Mordecai (Three Finger)

  The hotshot pitcher with a mangled hand

• Campbell, Malcolm

  The driver of the land-speed record setting Bluebird

• Eisenstein, Sergei

  Russian director of the film The Battleship Potemkin

• Gandhi, Mohandas

  Non-violent leader of Indian independence

• Griffith, D.W.

  Ground-breaking director of Birth of a Nation

• Jinnah, Muhammad Ali

  Founder of Pakistan

• Lumière, Louis

  Pioneer inventor in moviemaking and projection

• Pershing, John J.

  Commander of American armies in Europe during World War I

• Roosevelt, Edith

  President Teddy Roosevelt's second wife

• Ruth, Babe

  New York Yankee hero and home run king

• Tojo, Hideki

  Japanese Prime Minister during World War II

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