Famous people and celebrities who died in October 1948

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in October 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

• Oct. 10 Mary Eaton

  Mary Eaton was a prominent American actress during the transition from silent films to talkies, appearing in numerous productions during the 1920s and early 1930s.

• Oct. 10 Ted Horn

  Accomplished American race car driver who won national championship titles in 1946 and 1947, and was posthumously inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993.

• Oct. 12 Susan Sutherland Isaacs

  English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)

• Oct. 12 Alfred Kerr

  German-jewish theatre critic, essayist, and "pope of culture", also known as the kulturpapst. he was hostile to bertolt brecht in the 1920s and made accusations of plagiarism. kerr and julia, his wife and their children, fled germany in 1933 for france via czechoslovakia or switzerland. in 1935, they moved to london. kerr had publicly attacked the nazi party and his …

• Oct. 13 Samuel S Hinds

  Actor (raven test pilot), is killed at 73

• Oct. 15 Edythe Chapman

  American actress (born 1863).

• Oct. 17 Royal Cortissoz

  American art critic (b. 1869)

• Oct. 18 Walther von Brauchitsch

  German field marshal (b. 1881)

• Oct. 18 [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch

  German field marshal

• Oct. 22 Augustyn Hlond

  Polish cardinal

• Oct. 23 Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa

  Composer dies at 71

• Oct. 24 Franz Lehár

  Austrian-hungarian composer (b. 1870)

• Oct. 24 Frederic L. Paxson

  American historian and author (b. 1877)

• Oct. 31 Cissy van Marxfield [Setske Beek-de Han]

  Writer