List of Famous people who died in 1948

Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.

Charles Bryant was a British actor and film director.

Charles D. Brown was an American stage and film actor.

Dale Fuller was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 67 films between 1915 and 1935. She is best known for her role as the maid in Foolish Wives.

Marie Dorothée Louise de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French aristocrat most notable for her salons and her role in European high-society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as "Dolly" to her friends, she inspired artists and writers including Marcel Proust. She was the half-sister of the prince de Sagan, who had dual French and Prussian nationality and sat in the Prussian House of Lords.

Edgar Allan Woolf was a lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-author of the script for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Eille Norwood was an English stage actor, director, and playwright best known today for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films.

J.-H. Rosny jeune was the pseudonym of Séraphin Justin François Boex, a French author of Belgian origin who, along with his better known older brother J.-H. Rosny aîné, is considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction. Born in Brussels in 1859, until 1909 he wrote together with his older brother Joseph Henri Honoré Boex under the pen name J.-H. Rosny. After they ended their collaboration Joseph Boex continued to write under the name J.-H. Rosny aîné while Séraphin used "Rosny jeune".

Thomas William Lamont, Jr. was an American banker.

Félicien Tramel, often known simply as Tramel, (1880–1948) was a French film actor.