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Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
British princess
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)
King Baggot
American actor, screenwriter and director (1879-1948)
Gertrude Atherton
American author (1857–1948)
Edgar Kennedy
actor (1890–1948)
Wesley Clair Mitchell
American statistician (1874–1948)
Edgar Leonard
US tennis player (1881–1948)
Manuel Ponce
Mexican composer (1886–1948)
Richard von Kühlmann
German diplomat and industrialist (1873-1948)
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni
Palestinian Arab nationalist (1907-1948)
Richard Tauber
Austrian tenor (1891-1948)
Franz Weidenreich
German anatomist (1873–1948)
Hulusi Behçet
Turkish dermatologist (1889–1948)
Alfredo Baldomir
president of Uruguay (1884-1948)
Kathleen Cavendish
American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (1920–1948)
John Anderson
American athlete mainly as a discus thrower (1907–1948)
Tony Garnier
French architect (1869–1948)
Henrik Lund
Greenlandic Lutheran pastor, poet, painter, and author of Greenland's national anthem (1875-1948)
Zhu Ziqing
Chinese poet (1898–1948)
Princess Henriette of Belgium
Belgian royal (1870–1948)
Warren William
Broadway and Hollywood actor (1894–1948)
Alice Salomon
German social reformer (1872–1948)
František Svoboda
Czech footballer (1906–1948)
Sonny Boy Williamson I
American blues musician (1914–1948)
Eugen Slutsky
Russian mathematician (1880-1948)
Marcel Brillouin
French mathematician and physicist (1854-1948)
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo
Mosotho writer (1876–1948)
Philippa Fawcett
English mathematician (1868–1948)
Nikolai Podvoisky
Russian revolutionary (1880–1948)
Archduke Peter Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany
Austro-Tuscan Imperial and Royal (1874-1948)
Zhou Fohai
Chinese politician (1897–1948)
Abraham Brill
American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1874–1948)
Frederick Orpen Bower
British botanist (1855–1948)
Elsa Brändström
Swedish nurse (1888-1948)
Josephus Daniels
American diplomat and newspaper editor (1862–1948)
Mickey Marcus
Israeli general (1901–1948)
Siegmund von Hausegger
Austrian composer and conductor (1872-1948)
Adolf Kainz
Canoe racer (1903–1948)
Princess Marie Louise of Hanover
Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1879–1948)
Antoine Lacroix
French mineralogist and geologist (1863–1948)
Elissa Landi
Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s
Henri Hazebrouck
French rower (1877–1948)
René Benjamin
French writer (1885–1948)
Vasily Kachalov
Russian and Soviet actor (1875—1948)
Constantin Angelescu
Romanian politician (1869-1948)
James Young
American film director, actor and screenwriter (1872-1948)
Yevgeniy Abalakov
Soviet mountain climber (1907–1948)
Alfred Kerr
German writer (1867–1948)
Julius Curtius
German politician (1877-1948)
István Barta
Hungarian water polo player (1895–1948)
Irmfried Eberl
SS officer, first commandant of Treblinka extermination camp (1910–1948)
George Mehnert
Olympic wrestler (1881–1948)
Arthur Whitten Brown
British Army officer (1886–1948)
Milan Begović
Croatian writer (1876–1948)
Yellapragada Subbarow
Indian-American scientist
Amir Sjarifuddin
Prime Minister of Indonesia (1907-1948)
Mary Nolan
American actress (1902–1948)
Ladislav Troják
Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1914-1948)
James Baskett
actor (1904-1948)
Therese Brandl
Nazi concentration camp guard (1902–1948)