List of Famous people who died at 48

Serge Daney was a French movie critic. He was a major figure of Cahiers du cinéma which he co-edited in the late 1970s. He also wrote extensively about films, television, and society in the newspaper Libération and founded the quarterly review Trafic shortly before his death. Highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work remains little known to English-speaking audiences, largely because it has not been consistently translated.

Sally-Anne Frances Jones, was a British-born terrorist, Islamist, and UN-designated recruiter and propagandist for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), known variously as Umm Hussain al-Britani, Sakinah Hussein, and the White Widow She is thought to have been killed in June 2017 by a US drone strike, but sources are unable to confirm.

Edmund Alexander "Eddy" Hoost was a Surinamese politician and lawyer. He was one of the victims of the December murders.

Esther Phillips was an American singer, best known for her R&B vocals. She also performed pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.

Madeleine Joan Blaustein, also known as Kendra Bancroft, was an American voice actress and comic writer. She was known for her voice acting work for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video and NYAV Post, for her reprising role as the character Meowth from the Pokémon anime series and for comics written for Milestone Comics, in which she introduced one of superhero comics' first transgender female characters. She was the first intersex and transgender voice artist for many of her respective agencies.

William Donald Payne was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of The Simpsons after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The duo began their careers writing for the short-lived sitcom Hope and Gloria. Payne later moved into writing feature films, including My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and co-wrote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Thor (2011) and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013). Payne died from bone cancer in March 2013.

Joëlle Bernard (1928–1977) was a French film and television actress.