1948
- October 1 - Phraya Manopakorn Nititada (b. 1884)
- October 12- Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b.1885).
- October 24 - Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
- November 28 - D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873)
- December 23 - Japanese war leaders (hanged):
- Kenji Doihara, spy (b. 1883)
- Koki Hirota, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878)
- Itagaki Seishiro, military officer (b. 1885)
- Hideki Tojo, general (b. 1884)
- December 31 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer (b. 1885)
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
- Chemistry - Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
- Medicine - Paul Hermann Müller
- Literature - T. S. Eliot
- Peace - not awarded
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