1948 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• January 8 - Richard Tauber, operatic tenor, 56 (lung cancer)
• January 15 - Jack Guthrie, popular singer, 32 (tuberculosis)
• January 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer of comic operas, 72
• January 26 - Ignaz Friedman, pianist and composer, 65
• February 21 - Frederic Lamond, pianist, 80
• April 21 - Carlos López Buchardo, composer, 66
• April 24 - Manuel Maria Ponce, composer, 65
• April 25 - Fritz Crome, composer and music writer, 68
• May 17
  • Olga Samaroff, pianist and music critic, 67
  • David Evans, composer, 74
• June 1 - José Vianna da Motta, pianist and composer
• June 6 - Henrik Lund, lyricist
• June 17 - Beryl Wallace, singer, dancer and actress
• June 20 - George Frederick Boyle, composer, 61
• June 27 - George Templeton Strong, composer, 92
• August 10
  • Lucille Bogan, blues singer, 51
  • Emmy Hennings, cabaret performer, 63
• August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, Broadway star, 51 (car accident)
• August 20 - David John de Lloyd, composer, 65
• September 3 - Mutt Carey, jazz trumpeter, 61
• September 12 - Rupert D'Oyly Carte, impresario, 70
• September 15 - Vernon Dalhart, US singer, 65
• October 10 - Mary Eaton, dancer, 47 (liver failure)
• October 24 - Franz Lehár, composer, 78
• November 12 - Umberto Giordano, composer, 81
• December 2 - Chano Pozo, percussionist, 33 (murdered)
• December 5 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter, 79
• December 14 - R. O. Morris, British composer and teacher, 62
• December 18 - William Arms Fisher, music historian, 87
• December 22 - Donald Brian, actor, dancer and singer, 71
• date unknown - Boris Fomin, Russian folk composer (b. 1900)