Editing 1948 (section)

===December===
[[File:Joao tamagnini barbosa 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[João Tamagnini Barbosa]]]]
[[File:Kohki Hirota suit cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kōki Hirota]]]]
[[File:Hideki Tojo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hideki Tojo]]]]
* [[December 3]] 
** [[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)|Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr]], South African politician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Luis Orrego Luco]], Chilean politician, lawyer, novelist and diplomat (b. [[1866]])
** [[Chano Pozo]], Cuban percussionist (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Matthew Charlton]], Australian politician (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[João Tamagnini Barbosa]], Portuguese military officer, politician and 69th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[C. Aubrey Smith]], British actor (b. [[1863]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Władysław Witwicki]], Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; Japanese war leaders ([[International Military Tribunal for the Far East|hanged]]):
** [[Kenji Doihara]], general (b. [[1883]])
** [[Kōki Hirota]], diplomat and politician, 32nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1878]])
** [[Seishirō Itagaki]], military officer (b. [[1885]])
** [[Heitarō Kimura]], general (b. [[1888]])
** [[Iwane Matsui]], general (b. [[1878]])
** [[Akira Mutō]], general (b. [[1892]])
** [[Hideki Tojo]], general, 40th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[John Westley (actor)|John Westley]], American actor (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari]], Indian civil servant, politician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha]], Egyptian political figure, 27th [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (assassinated) (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 30]] 
** [[George Ault]], American painter (b. [[1891]])
** [[Denton Welch]], English author and painter (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Malcolm Campbell|Sir Malcolm Campbell]], English land, water racer (b. [[1885]])