Months in Year 1948: January February March April May June July August October November December
Deaths 1 - 36 of 36
Jan 1st - Hermann K J Zilcher,
German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66
Jan 1st - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73
Jan 21st - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,
composer, dies at 72
Jan 26th - Ignaz Friedman,
composer, dies at 65
Feb 7th - "Red" McKenzie,
blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
Feb 21st - Frederick Archibald Lamond,
composer, dies at 80
Mar 27th - Karel Candael,
Flemish composer, dies at 64
Apr 21st - Carlos Lopez Buchardo,
composer, dies at 66
Apr 24th - Joseph Wihtol,
composer, dies at 84
Apr 24th - Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
May 8th - Alfred Holy,
composer, dies at 81
May 12th - Isidor Achron,
composer, dies at 55
May 24th - Alfred Kastner,
composer, dies at 78
May 31st - Jose Vianna da Motta,
composer, dies at 80
Jun 1st - Sonny Boy Williamson,
[John Lee], blues player, dies at 34
Jun 7th - Georges Adolphe Hue,
composer, dies at 90
Jun 8th - Franz Carl Bornschein,
composer, dies at 69
Jun 14th - Ernst Henrik Ellberg,
composer, dies at 79
Jun 14th - John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
Jun 20th - George Frederick Boyle,
composer, dies at 61
Jun 27th - George Templeton Strong,
composer, dies at 92
Jul 21st - Donald Nichols Tweedy,
composer, dies at 58
Jul 27th - Francesco Spetrino,
composer, dies at 91
Aug 20th - David John de Lloyd,
composer, dies at 65
Aug 26th - Oscar L Fernandez,
Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
Aug 27th - Oley Speaks,
composer, dies at 74
Aug 27th - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
Oct 23rd - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa,
composer, dies at 71
Oct 24th - Franz Lehar,
Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78
Nov 12th - Umberto Giordano,
composer, dies at 81
Nov 23rd - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov,
composer, dies at 63
Nov 24th - Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski,
composer, dies at 64
Nov 30th - Franco Vittadini,
composer, dies at 64
Dec 7th - Godfrey Turner,
composer, dies at 35
Dec 14th - Reginald Owen Morris,
composer, dies at 62
Dec 17th - Edgar Istel,
composer, dies at 68
