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The list Celebrities who died at age 48 includes Whitney Houston, Jonathan Crombie, Wendy O. Williams, Peter Steele and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The list consists of 2,738 members.
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    Whitney Houston
    American singer, record producer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist (1963–2012)
    Whitney Houston
    Overview: Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. Nicknamed "the Voice", she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with over 220 million ...
    Date of birth: 9 August 1963
    Date of death: 11 February 2012
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    MTV Video Music Award winners 217T
    American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 252T
    Deaths from coronary artery disease 79T
  • 2.

    Jonathan Crombie
    Canadian actor
    Jonathan Crombie
    Overview: Jonathan Crombie (October 12, 1966 – April 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor and voice over artist, best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables and its ...
    Date of birth: 12 October 1966
    Date of death: 15 April 2015
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century Canadian LGBT people 853T
    20th-century Canadian LGBT people 408T
    Canadian gay actors 88T
  • 3.
    Wendy O. Williams
    Overview: Wendy Orlean Williams (May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998) was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial ...
    Date of birth: 28 May 1949
    Date of death: 6 April 1998
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    1998 suicides 45T
    Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T
    Vegetarians 377T
  • 4.

    Peter Steele
    American musician (1962–2010)
    Peter Steele
    Overview: Peter Thomas Ratajczyk (January 4, 1962 – April 14, 2010), known professionally as Peter Steele, was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was best known as the lead vocalist, bassist and c ...
    Date of birth: 4 January 1962
    Date of death: 14 April 2010
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 8" (203 cm)
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    20th-century American male musicians 7,726T
    Edward R. Murrow High School alumni 22T
    21st-century male singers 7,267T
  • 5.

    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
    Pakistani musician
    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
    Overview: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997), was a Pakistani vocalist, musician, composer and music director primarily a singer of qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional ...
    Date of birth: 13 October 1948
    Date of death: 16 August 1997
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    Singers from Faisalabad 5T
    Fateh Ali Khan family 5T
    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 2T
  • 6.

    David Janssen
    American actor (1931–1980)
    David Janssen
    Overview: David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer) (March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television ...
    Date of birth: 27 March 1931
    Date of death: 13 February 1980
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Male actors of Irish descent 682T
    Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery 165T
    Jewish American male actors 1,045T
  • 7.

    Scott Weiland
    American musician
    Scott Weiland
    Overview: Scott Richard Weiland (né Kline, October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. During a career spanning three decades, Weiland was best known as the lead singer ...
    Date of birth: 27 October 1967
    Date of death: 3 December 2015
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    The Wondergirls members 9T
    Camp Freddy members 6T
    Catholics from Ohio 131T
  • 8.

    Maureen Starkey
    First wife of Ringo Starr
    Maureen Starkey
    Overview: Maureen "Mo" Starkey Tigrett (born Mary Cox; 4 August 1946 – 30 December 1994) was a hairdresser from Liverpool, England, best known as the first wife of Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. When she was ...
    Date of birth: 4 August 1946
    Date of death: 30 December 1994
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Other
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    Wives of the Beatles 9T
    20th-century English women 1,256T
    Ringo Starr family 27T
  • 9.

    Curly Howard
    American actor and comedian
    Curly Howard
    Overview: Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American vaudevillian comedian and actor. He was best known as a member of the American farce comedy ...
    Date of birth: 22 October 1903
    Date of death: 18 January 1952
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Burials at Home of Peace Cemetery 15T
    American male comedy actors 146T
    20th-century American comedians 1,226T
  • 10.

    Maurice Oldham
    American, Photographer
    Maurice Oldham
    Date of birth: 30 December 1958
    Date of death: 21 May 2007
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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  • 11.

    Ahmad Shah Massoud
    Afghan military leader (1953–2001)
    Ahmad Shah Massoud
    Overview: Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari Persian/Pashto: احمد شاه مسعود; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan politician and military commander. He was a powerful guerilla commander during the r ...
    Date of birth: 2 September 1953
    Date of death: 9 September 2001
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Afghan
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    People killed by al-Qaeda 6T
    Afghan guerrillas killed in action 3T
    Deaths by suicide bomber 9T
  • 12.

    Cleo Moore
    American actress (1920s – 1973)
    Cleo Moore
    Overview: Cleouna Moore (October 31, 1929 – October 25, 1973) was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She ...
    Date of birth: 31 October 1924
    Date of death: 25 October 1973
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Columbia Pictures contract players 42T
    People from Gonzales, Louisiana 20T
    Actresses from Baton Rouge, Louisiana 18T
  • 13.

    Carol White
    English actress
    Carol White
    Overview: Carole Joan White (1 April 1943 – 16 September 1991) was an English actress.
    Date of birth: 1 April 1943
    Date of death: 16 September 1991
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    20th-century English actresses 1,339T
    English television actresses 2,523T
    English film actresses 2,039T
  • 14.

    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934–1982)
    Marty Feldman
    Overview: Martin Alan Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedian and comedy writer, known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. He initially gained prominence as a writer with Barry Took ...
    Date of birth: 8 July 1934
    Date of death: 2 December 1982
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Jewish English comedians 13T
    20th-century British screenwriters 395T
    British male television writers 435T
  • 15.

    Wally Cox
    American actor
    Wally Cox
    Overview: Wallace Maynard Cox (December 6, 1924 – February 15, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States. He appeared in the U.S. ...
    Date of birth: 6 December 1924
    Date of death: 15 February 1973
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Denby High School alumni 19T
    Military personnel from Detroit 77T
    Male actors from Evanston, Illinois 37T
  • 16.

    Prince Aly Khan
    Pakistani diplomat
    Prince Aly Khan
    Overview: Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan (13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Nizārī Ismaili Muslims, a sect of Shia Islam, the father of ...
    Date of birth: 13 June 1911
    Date of death: 12 May 1960
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Nobility from Turin 80T
    Noorani family 12T
    British officials of the United Nations 100T
  • 17.

    Athina Livanos
    greek socialite
    Athina Livanos
    Overview: Athina Mary "Tina" Niarchos (Greek: Αθηνά (Τίνα) Λιβανού, née Livanos; 19 March 1929 – 10 October 1974) was the second daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos and Arietta Zafiraki. She was ...
    Date of birth: 19 March 1926
    Date of death: 10 October 1974
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    British courtesy marchionesses 9T
    Niarchos family 10T
    Livanos family 9T
  • 18.

    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899–1947)
    Al Capone
    Overview: Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1899
    Date of death: 25 January 1947
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Criminal
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Deaths from pneumonia in Florida 63T
    American bootleggers 40T
    American people of Campanian descent 89T
  • 19.
    Steve Cochran
    Overview: Steve Cochran (born Robert Alexander Cochran, May 25, 1917 – June 15, 1965) was an American film, television and stage actor. He attended the University of Wyoming. After a stint working as a cowboy, ...
    Date of birth: 25 May 1917
    Date of death: 15 June 1965
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Sexual misconduct allegations 94T
    Male actors from Wyoming 20T
    20th-century American male actors 8,672T
  • 20.

    Peter Allen
    Australian singer and songwriter (1944–1992)
    Peter Allen
    Overview: Peter Allen (born Peter Richard Woolnough; 10 February 1944 – 18 June 1992) was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, boundless energy, and ...
    Date of birth: 10 February 1944
    Date of death: 18 June 1992
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    20th-century Australian male singers 109T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,060T
    LGBT singers from Australia 55T
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