List of Famous people who died in 1948

Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.

Louis Jean Lumière was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema.

Stella LeSaint was an American silent film actress.

Francis Gruber (1912–1948) was a French painter and founder of the Nouveau Réalisme school.

Olive Wilson was an Irish badminton player.

Jan Savitt, known as "The Stokowski of Swing", from having played violin in Leopold Stokowski's orchestra, was an American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist.

Lula Mysz-Gmeiner was a German concert contralto and mezzo-soprano born in Transylvania, who performed lieder recitals in Europe and the United States. She was an academic voice teacher in Berlin and taught both Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Peter Anders.

Vernon L. Walker was an American special effects artist and cinematographer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Special Effects. He worked on more than 220 films during his career, starting out as a head cameraman for Otis B. Thayer's Art-O-Graf Film Company in 1919.