List of Famous people who died in 1948

Noel Edward Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton, PC was a British Liberal and later Labour politician. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and between 1929 and 1930.

Aleksandr Vasilievich Shevchenko was a Ukrainian modernist painter and sculptor.

André Utter was a French painter. He was in the 18th arrondissement of Paris to parents of Alsatian origin. He is best known for having been the second husband and manager of French painter Suzanne Valadon and the father-in-law of her son, Maurice Utrillo. The trio have also been called the trinité maudite due to their atmosphere of quarrels, reconciliations and alcoholism.

Marguerite Moreno was a French stage and film actress, born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau.

William Arms Fisher was an American composer, music historian and writer.

Louis-Hippolyte Boileau was a French architect.

Louis Aston Knight was a French-born American artist noted for his paintings of landscapes. One of his paintings, The Afterglow, was purchased by U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1922 to hang in the White House.

Louis Barillet was a French artist, known for his work in stained glass. Among those with whom he collaborated were Théodore-Gérard Hanssen and Jacques Le Chevallier. His windows may be seen in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien.