page_title: 1948
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Suzuki Kantaro (鈴木貫太郎, 1868 – 1948)
context_page_description: 1948 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: April 2
  Biagio Biagetti, Italian painter (b. 1877)
  Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as "The Great Master" (b. 1858)
  April 5 – Angelo Joseph Rossi, American political figure, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1878)
  April 7 – Isabel Andreu de Aguilar, Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist and activist (b. 1887)
  April 8 – Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Palestinian Arab nationalist (b. 1907)
  April 9
  George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
  Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (assassinated) (b. 1903)
  April 12 – Masaomi Yasuoka, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1886)
  April 15 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino statesman, 5th President of the Philippines (b. 1892)
  April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
  April 19 – Mikhail Rostovtsev, Soviet actor (b. 1872)
  April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, Japanese admiral and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
  April 21 – Carlos López Buchardo, Argentine composer (b. 1881)
  April 22 – Prosper Montagné, French chef and author (b. 1865)
  April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882)
  April 25 – Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, Uruguayan composer, journalist and pianist (b. 1897)
  April 30 – Alfredo Miguel Aguayo Sánchez, Puerto Rican educator, writer (b. 1866)
caption: Kantaro Suzuki
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