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John Lomax
American musicologist and folklorist (1867–1948)
George Beurling
Second World War flying ace (1921–1948)
Heitarō Kimura
Japanese general (1888-1948)
Carl Hårleman
Swedish athlete (1886-1948)
Stanley Garton
British rower (1889-1948)
Frank Benford
American electrical engineer & physicist best known for rediscovering Benford's Law (1883-1948)
Frank Hall Crane
American actor and film director (1873–1948)
Karl Möckel
SS officer (1901-1948)
Walter Schimana
German Waffen-SS general
Carl Abrahamsson
Swedish sportsperson (1896–1948)
Wilhelm von Opel
German industrialist and Nazi party member (1871-1948)
George Horine
athletics competitor (1890-1948)
Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld
German noblewoman (1870–1948)
Raoul Koczalski
Polish pianist (1884–1948)
Thomas Theodor Heine
German artist (1867–1948)
Eric von Rosen
Swedish explorer (1879-1948)
John Robert Gregg
Irish inventor and writer (1867-1948)
Karel Wälzer
Czechoslovak ice hockey goalkeeper
Oerip Soemohardjo
Indonesian general (1893–1948)
Clifford Crowley
Canadian ice hockey player (1906–1948)
Warren Hymer
American actor (1906–1948)
August Thalheimer
German politician (1884-1948)
Karel Stibor
Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1924-1948)
Gertrude Barrows Bennett
American writer (1884-1948)
João Tamagnini Barbosa
Portuguese politician and military officer (1883–1948)
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
British politician and diplomat (1865–1948)
Aleksandr Shevchenko
Soviet artist (1882-1948)
Alexander Vasilyevich Vishnevsky
Russian and Soviet military surgeon (1874–1948)
Paolo Thaon di Revel
Italian admiral (1859-1948)
Bertha Eckstein-Diener
Austrian writer and historian (1874–1948)
Poul Hansen
Danish wrestler (1891–1948)
Lauri Malmberg
Finnish general (1888–1948)
Nicodim Munteanu
2nd patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, from 1939 to 1948 (1864–1948)
Sten Konow
Norwegian indologist and philologist (1867–1948)
Gustav Giemsa
German scientist (1867–1948)
Fritz Dietrich
SS officer
Enrico Sibilia
Catholic cardinal (1861-1948)
Ljubo Miloš
Croatian fascist war criminal
Ekrem Libohova
Albanian politician (1882-1948)
Baldassarre Negroni
Italian film director (1877–1948)
Willard Robertson
American actor and writer (1886-1948)
Ermete Zacconi
Italian actor (1857-1948)
Hermann Pister
German war criminal (1885-1948)
Arthur Dinter
German writer, botanist and Nazi politician (1876–1948)
Percy Lowe
English surgeon and ornithologist (1870–1948)
Jean Chastanié
French athlete (1875–1948)
Frederick Gardner Cottrell
American chemist (1877–1948)
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Royal
Sextil Pușcariu
Romanian diplomat and academic (1877-1948)
Raffaele Rossi
Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1876–1948)
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
British writer (1865-1948)
Domenico Mordini
sailor (1898–1948)
Marie Steiner-von Sivers
Anthroposophist (1867-1948)
Ed Ricketts
American marine biologist (1897–1948)
Giuseppe Timoteo Giaccardo
Italian presbyter (1896-1948)
Marjory Stephenson
British biochemist (1885–1948)
Maria de Maeztu Whitney
Spanish educator and feminist
Karl Bonhoeffer
German psychiatrist (1868–1948)
Marie Baron
Dutch swimmer (1908-1948)
Mirin Dajo
Dutch body piercer (1912-1948)