Famous People Who Died at Age 48

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Capone, Al (died of heart failure at 48 years 8 days on January 25, 1947)

• Weiland, Scott (at 48 years 37 days on December 3, 2015)

• King Charles I (was beheaded at 48 years 72 days on January 30, 1649)

• Remington, Frederic (peritonitis after an appendectomy at 48 years 83 days on December 26, 1909)

• Howe, Elias (at 48 years 86 days on October 3, 1867)

• Shackleton, Ernest (died of a heart attack at 48 years 110 days on June 5, 1922)

• Allen, Peter (died of complications from AIDS at 48 years 129 days on June 18, 1992)

• Arbus, Diane (committed suicide at 48 years 134 days on July 26, 1971)

• Maxwell, James Clerk (at 48 years 145 days on November 5, 1879)

• McCarthy, Joseph (died of hepatitis at 48 years 169 days on May 2, 1957)

• Houston, Whitney (died of drowning at 48 years 186 days on February 11, 2012)

• Milk, Harvey (was shot to death at 48 years 189 days on November 27, 1978)

• Mother Ann Lee (at 48 years 192 days on September 8, 1784)

• Rhodes, Cecil (at 48 years 264 days on March 26, 1902)

• Mitchell, Margaret (died in an automobile crash at 48 years 281 days on August 16, 1949)

• Muhammad, John Allen (was executed at 48 years 314 days on November 10, 2009)

• Cole, Nat King (died of cancer at 48 years 335 days on February 15, 1965)

• Virgil (at 48 years 340 days on September 21, 19 B.C.)

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