List of Famous people who died in 1948

Sir Donald Charles Cameron, was a British colonial governor. He was the second governor of the British mandate of Tanganyika, and later the governor of Nigeria.

George Nicholas Mehnert was an American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.

Musso was one of PKI leaders and one of figures in Madiun affair.

Ferdinand Dirichs was a German Roman Catholic bishop.

Fred Spiksley was an English footballer and coach, who played as a forward for Sheffield Wednesday and England. He also played for Gainsborough Trinity, Glossop North End, Leeds City, Watford. After retiring as a player in 1906, he worked as a coach and won national league titles in Sweden, Mexico and Germany. During the First World War he was arrested but escaped from a German Police prison.

Frank Albert Benford Jr. was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's Law, a statistical statement about the occurrence of digits in lists of data.

Frank Brownlee was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1911 and 1943. He was born in Dallas, Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.