List of Famous people who died in 1948

Captain George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Ardito Bresciani was an Italian cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He also won stage 11 of the 1927 Giro d'Italia.

Konstantin Nikolayevich Igumnov was a Russian pianist and the teacher of many Russian pianists.

Emil Ludwig was a German-Swiss author, known for his biographies and study of historical "greats."

Rusztem Vámbéry was a judge, politician and criminologist of international standing.

George Polk was an American journalist for CBS who was murdered during the Greek Civil War, in 1948.

Friedrich Siegmund Georg Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein was a German general from Nuremberg. He was a member of the group of German officers who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during World War I. Kress von Kressenstein was part of the military mission of Otto Liman von Sanders to the Ottoman Empire, which arrived shortly before World War I broke out. He was also the main leader for the Ottoman Desert Command Force (DCF).