List of Famous people who died in 1948

Józef Świeżyński was the prime minister of the Kingdom of Poland for a short time — from 23 October 1918 to 4 November 1918.

José Vianna da Motta was a Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. The José Vianna da Motta Music Competition was founded in 1957 in his honor.

Dmitry Nikolaevich Pryanishnikov was a Russian agrochemist, biochemist and plant physiologist, founder of the Soviet scientific school in agronomic chemistry. Hero of Socialist Labor (1945). Winner of Lenin Prize (1926), Stalin Prize (1941) and Timiryazev Prize (1945).

August Thalheimer was a German Marxist activist and theorist.

Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer, and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra.

Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was an Austro-Hungarian archduke and an army commander in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.