Famous people and celebrities who died in June 1948

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in June 1948. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• June 1 Alex Gard

  Russian-born caricaturist (born 1900)

• June 1 Sonny Boy Williamson I

  American musician (born 1914)

• June 2 Karl Gebhardt

  German physician (d. 1948)

• June 6 Louis Lumière

  French scientist and cinematographer. his brother auguste was his co-inventor of the cinematograph. it is a combination motion picture camera, printer and projector. although there are many people who can claim to be the original inventors of cinematography, louis lumia're is the most prominent. louis and auguste invented the apparatus that projected motion pictures onto a screen. they produced some …

• June 7 Georges Adolphe Hue

  Composer dies at the age of 90

• June 8 Franz Carl Bornschein

  Composer dies at 69

• June 13 Osamu Dazai

  Renowned Japanese novelist known for influential works like 'No Longer Human', a key figure in post-war Japanese literature who explored themes of alienation and existential despair.

• June 14 Ernst Henrik Ellberg

  Composer dies at 79

• June 14 John Blackwood McEwen

  Composer dies at age 80

• June 18 Edward Brooker

  English-australian politician, 31st premier of tasmania (b. 1891)

• June 20 George Frederick Boyle

  Composer dies at 61

• June 25 William C. Lee

  American general (b. 1895)

• June 27 Dorothea Bleek

  South african anthropologist and philologist (b. 1873)

• June 27 George Templeton Strong

  Composer dies at 92

• June 30 Prince Sabahaddin

  Turkish-swiss sociologist and academic (b. 1879)

• June 30 Karl Wolfskehl

  Writer dies at 78