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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1948</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1948 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000119757/">Antonin Artaud</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td>Theater of Cruelty</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000048466/">Gertrude Franklin Atherton</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>Black Oxen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/346/000206725/">Carl E. Bailey</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Arkansas, 1937-41</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/834/000159357/">Charles A. Beard</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>The Rise of American Civilization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/786/000097495/">Ruth Benedict</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/794/000113455/">Eduard Benes</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Founder of modern Czechoslovakia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/751/000114409/">Georges Bernanos</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>The Diary of a Country Priest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/512/000164020/">Hugo Boss</a></td> <td><center>Fashion Designer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td>Designed Nazi uniforms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/304/000172785/">Sophonisba Breckinridge</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>Suffragette and abolitionist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000031935/">Mordecai Brown</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>Three Finger Brown</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/086/000055918/">Samuel P. Bush</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>Father of Senator Prescott Bush</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/199/000208572/">Harlan J. Bushfield</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of South Dakota, 1939-43</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000210414/">Fred P. Cone</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Florida, 1937-41</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000130742/">Frederick G. Cottrell</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Smokestack filters to fight pollution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000209903/">Wilbur L. Cross</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Connecticut, 1931-39</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/446/000176915/">Josephus Daniels</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Secretary of the Navy, 1913-21</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000168703/">Henri Alexandre Deslandres</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Spectroheliograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000206525/">Hugh M. Dorsey</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Georgia, 1917-21</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/596/000045461/">Sergei Eisenstein</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>Alexander Nevsky</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/240/000135832/">Jacques Feyder</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1948</tt></td> <td>Carnival in Flanders</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000065458/">Mahatma Gandhi</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Proselytizer of nonviolence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/691/000114349/">Susan Glaspell</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>Provincetown Players</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000206573/">Arshile Gorky</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>Abstract expressionist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000032387/">D. W. Griffith</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>The Birth of a Nation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/138/000208511/">L. B. Hanna</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Dakota, 1913-17</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/325/000134920/">Samuel S. Hinds</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>It's a Wonderful Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000055588/">Charles Evans Hughes</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td>US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/263/000088996/">Mohammad Ali Jinnah</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Founder of Pakistan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000102087/">Edgar Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Mad Wednesday</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/893/000058719/">Kathleen Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1948</tt></td> <td>Sister of John F. Kennedy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/538/000209908/">Everett J. Lake</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/404/000167900/">Robert P. Lamont</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>US Commerce Secretary, 1929-32</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000162937/">Thomas W. Lamont</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>Banker and diplomat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000353165/">Elissa Landi</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>The Count of Monte Cristo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000043002/">Carole Landis</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>A Scandal in Paris</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000206226/">Franz Lehár</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>The Merry Widow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000115138/">Aldo Leopold</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1948</tt></td> <td>A Sand County Almanac</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/664/000210034/">Frank E. Lucas</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Wyoming, 1924-25</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/220/000114875/">Emil Ludwig</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>German biographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/388/000212749/">Louis Lumière</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>Inventor of motion pictures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000114865/">Burns Mantle</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>New York Daily News drama critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/180/000022114/">Jan Masaryk</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Sep-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td>Czech Foreign Minister</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/529/000165034/">A. E. W. Mason</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>The Four Feathers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000068096/">James L. McConaughy</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/436/000178899/">James H. McGraw</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of the McGraw-Hill Companies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/517/000114175/">Claude McKay</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1948</tt></td> <td>Home to Harlem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/914/000119557/">Wesley Clair Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>Business Cycles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000208503/">Thomas H. Moodie</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Dakota, 1935</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/590/000204975/">Fred Niblo</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Ben-Hur</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/962/000122596/">John H. Overton</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1948</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Louisiana, 1933-48</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000205467/">Cissy Patterson</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>First female newspaper publisher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/896/000092620/">John J. Pershing</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>General of the Armies of the United States</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000278239/">Willard Robertson</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1948</tt></td> <td>Remember the Night</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/539/000173020/">Alvah C. Roebuck</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>Sears Roebuck founder</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/704/000128320/">Edith Roosevelt</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/147/000098850/">Manuel Roxas</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1948</tt></td> <td>5th President of the Philippines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/468/000023399/">Babe Ruth</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td>The Bambino</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/751/000118397/">Lewis B. Schwellenbach</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Sep-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Labor, 1945-48</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/295/000113953/">Kurt Schwitters</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Collagist, Merz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000208505/">George F. Shafer</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Dakota, 1929-32</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/323/000079086/">C. Aubrey Smith</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1948</tt></td> <td>The Four Feathers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/399/000173877/">Jerome Smucker</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td>Founder of J. M. Smucker Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000114316/">Genevieve Taggard</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Travelling Standing Still</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000159305/">D'Arcy Thompson</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>On Growth and Form</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000091677/">Hideki Tojo</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1948</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Japan, 1941-44</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/691/000167190/">Donald B. Tresidder</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>President of Stanford University, 1943-48</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/169/000087905/">Walther von Brauchitsch</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1948</tt></td> <td>Nazi general, failed to capture Moscow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000055145/">James E. Watson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Indiana, 1916-33</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000138107/">May Whitty</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1948</tt></td> <td>Night Must Fall</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/321/000130928/">Warren William</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Imitation of Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/108/000085850/">Hack Wilson</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Hit 56 home runs and 191 RBI's in 1930</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/985/000031892/">Orville Wright</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Co-Inventor of the airplane</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106140" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/186/000003177/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/186/3177/s3177.jpg" width=128> Harley Davidson Connections</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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