page_title: 1948
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Karl Valentin 41.7 x 27.5 cm chalk on grey-blue wove paper signed l.r.Eugen Rosenfeld
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: February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878)
  February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
  February 3 – Laura Wheeler Waring, African-American painter, known for Harlem Renaissance portraits (b. 1887)
  February 4 – Otto Praeger, American postal official who implemented U.S. Airmail (b. 1871)
  February 8 – Samuel P. Bush, American businessman, industrialist (b. 1863)
  February 9
  Burns Mantle, American theatre critic (b. 1873)
  Karl Valentin, German actor (b. 1882)
  February 11
  Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898)
  Isaac Isaacs, 9th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1855)
  February 12 – Theodor Caspari, Norwegian poet, novelist, writer, literary critic and teacher (b. 1853)
  February 14 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1876)
  February 15 – Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Indian poet (b. 1904)
  February 17 – Enrique Finochietto, Argentine academic, physician and inventor (b. 1881)
  February 18 – Renato Balestrero, Italian racecar driver (b. 1898)
  February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866)
  February 25
  Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan politician, soldier, architect, 27th President of Uruguay and World War II leader (b. 1884)
  Alexander du Toit, South African geologist (b. 1878)
  Felix Krueger, German psychologist (b. 1874)
  Juan Esteban Montero, Chilean political figure, 20th President of Chile (b. 1879)
  February 27
  Charles Gifford, New Zealand astronomer, explorer and teacher (b. 1861)
  Patriarch Nicodim of Romania (b. 1864)
  February 28 – Camila Quiroga, Argentine actress (b. 1891)
  February 29 – Constantin S. Constantin, Romanian general (b. 1889)
caption: Karl Valentin
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