List of Famous people who died in 1948

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Robert Clive

First Name Robert

Last Name Clive

Died on May 13, 1948

Sir Robert Henry Clive was a British diplomat.

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Ernest Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer

First Name Ernest

Last Name Palmer

Born on March 28, 1858

Died on December 8, 1948 (aged 90)

(Samuel) Ernest Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer, known as Sir Ernest Palmer, 1st Baronet, from 1916, was a British business man and patron of music.

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Richard Depoorter

First Name Richard

Last Name Depoorter

Born on April 29, 1915

Died on June 16, 1948 (aged 33)

Born in Belgium, Flemish Region

Richard Depoorter was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the 1943 and 1947 editions of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He crashed into a tunnel wall on a "descent of the Sustenpas near Bern" during the 1948 Tour of Switzerland and died onsite or shortly thereafter due to his injuries.

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Marcel Brillouin

First Name Marcel

Last Name Brillouin

Born on December 19, 1854

Died on June 16, 1948 (aged 93)

Born in France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Louis Marcel Brillouin was a French physicist and mathematician.

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