Dead at age 48

445 Notable deaths

Jaishankar Prasad

Hindi author.

Born January 30th, 1889 in Varanasi. [ref]

Died November 15th, 1937 at 48 years old in Varanasi. [ref]

Abd al-Karim Qasim

Iraqi army brigadier, nationalist and prime minister of iraq from 1958 to 1963.

Born November 21st, 1914 in Baghdad.

Died February 9th, 1963 at 48 years old in Baghdad (ballistic trauma).

Mark Fisher

British cultural theorist (1968-2017).

Born July 11th, 1968 in Leicester.

Died January 13th, 2017 at 48 years old in Felixstowe.

Bruce Chatwin

English novelist.

Born May 13th, 1940 in Sheffield. [ref]

Died January 18th, 1989 at 48 years old in Nice (death from AIDS-related complications). [ref]

Hilda Gadea

Peruvian economist, communist leader, and author.

Born March 21st, 1925 in Lima.

Died February 11th, 1974 at 48 years old in Havana (cancer). [ref]

Frederic Remington

American painter and sculptor.

Born October 4th, 1861 in Canton. [ref]

Died December 26th, 1909 at 48 years old in Ridgefield (peritonitis). [ref]

J. L. Austin

English philosopher.

Born March 26th, 1911 in Lancaster. [ref]

Died February 8th, 1960 at 48 years old in Oxford (lung cancer). [ref]

Steve Cochran

American actor.

Born May 25th, 1917 in Eureka.

Died June 15th, 1965 at 48 years old in Guatemala (lung disease). [ref]

Eve Meyer

American actor and model.

Born December 13th, 1928 in Griffin.

Died March 27th, 1977 at 48 years old in Tenerife North Airport (aviation accident).

Karl Hermann Frank

Czechoslovak member of czechoslovak national parliament and nazi germany politician (1898-1946).

Born January 24th, 1898 in Karlovy Vary. [ref]

Died May 22nd, 1946 at 48 years old in Prague (hanging). [ref]

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To die will be an awfully big adventure. Peter Pan