List of Famous people who died at 48

Joel Franklin LeBaron was a Mormon fundamentalist leader in northern Mexico. He was murdered by a member or members of a rival church which was headed by his brother Ervil LeBaron.

Serhiy Atelkin was a Ukrainian footballer. Atelkin became the first player from the independent Ukraine to play in the Italian Serie A.

Volker Eckert was a German serial killer, who killed six women in East Germany, France and Spain, between 1974 and 2006. Eckert confessed to only six murders, five of whom were sex workers, but is known to have killed at least nine women, and is also accused of committing additional murders of women in several European countries including Italy and the Czech Republic, but investigations were closed after Eckert committed suicide during his criminal proceedings on July 2, 2007.

Yuk Young-soo was the wife of the 3rd South Korean president Park Chung-hee and the mother of the 11th South Korean president Park Geun-hye. She was killed in 1974 during an attempted assassination of her husband, Park Chung-hee.

Yukinori Miyabe was a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Bernardo Silvano Bonezzi Nahón was a Spanish film music composer who was born in Madrid. He won a Cinema Writers Circle Award for Bendito infierno, and was nominated for three Goya Awards and won one for his work on Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto. He was a frequent collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar on his early films, having composed for five, before being succeeded by Alberto Iglesias.

Sadik Achmet was a Turkish professor and politician. He founded the Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace.

Murat Kazbekovich Akhedzhak was a Deputy Head of Administration of Krasnodar Krai in the 2002–2010. He was awarded Hero of Labor of Kuban medal (posthumously).

Hüseyin Velioğlu was the leader of the Turkish Hezbollah, a militant extremist organization in the early 1990s. Velioğlu led one of the wings of this organization. He was killed in a police operation in the Beykoz district of Istanbul on 17 January 2000.

Grigore Obreja was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C-2 500 m event at Atlanta in 1996.