page_title: 1948
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Lady Hartington (formerly Kathleen Kennedy) in London, wearing an American Red Cross uniform
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: May 2 – Ángel Maria Herrera, Panamanian educator (b. 1859)
  May 3 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin of Minister Ritavuori (b. 1876)
  May 9
  Viola Allen, American actress (b. 1867)
  Frank Leigh, British actor (b. 1876)
  May 13
  Milan Begović, Yugoslavian writer (b. 1876)
  Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
  May 15
  André Dauchez, French painter (b. 1870)
  Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born American Roman Catholic priest, founder of Boys Town and monsignor (b. 1886)
  Toyoaki Horiuchi, Japanese general, Class B war criminal suspect (executed) (b. 1900)
  May 16 – Muhammad Habibullah, Indian politician (b. 1869)
  May 18 – Francisco Alonso, Spanish composer (b. 1887)
  May 19 – Maximilian Lenz, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1860)
  May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885)
  May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. 1889)
  May 25 – Witold Pilecki, Polish resistance leader (executed) (b. 1901)
  May 26 – Émile Gaston Chassinat, French egyptologist (b. 1868)
  May 28 – Unity Mitford, British socialite; friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914)
  May 29 – Dame May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865)
  May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
caption: Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
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