List of Famous people who died at 48

Sepp Daxenberger was a German Green Party politician.

Fayza Ahmed was a Syrian-Egyptian-Lebanese singer and actress. During her career, she appeared in six films.

Oleg Pavlov was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize.

Werner Lamberz was a senior politician in the German Democratic Republic.

Rutilio Grande García was a Jesuit priest in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1977, along with two other Salvadorans. He was the first priest assassinated before the civil war started and a close friend of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero. After his death, the Archbishop changed his conservative attitude toward the government and urged the government to investigate the murder. His beatification, through his status as a martyr was approved by Pope Francis on February 21, 2020, with the beatification ceremony being held at a later date.

Josip Zovko was a Croatian actor and director. A native of the Berinovac, Lokvičići municipality in the Imotska Krajina he was best known for playing Joze in the television series Naši i vaši. He was also acclaimed for his roles in the films Sorry for Kung Fu and Wish I Were a Shark.

Francesco Daniele Quinn was an Italian-born actor. The first son of Oscar-winner Anthony Quinn and Iolanda Addolori, Francesco is perhaps best known for his breakout role as Rhah in Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning Platoon (1986). However, his first major role in television was in the 1985 prime-time television miniseries Quo Vadis?. His final role was the voice of the Autobot Dino (Mirage) in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Seno Nugroho was an Indonesian artist and puppeteer. His name is widely known as the puppeteer through the wayang kulit performance that combines the Surakarta gagrag and the Yogyakarta gagrag. Another peculiarity that has made him famous is when he presents panakawan with jokes that are spontaneous, contextual, actual, and funny. Apart from performing in Indonesia, Seno Nugroho has also been invited to perform in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Zhang Enhua was a Chinese professional football player and coach.

Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapam and the Alignment from 1965 until his death in 1974. When appointed Deputy Minister of Health on 24 May 1971, he became the first non-Jewish member of an Israeli government.