* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician, Vice Chancellor of Germany

* 1948 – Lois Reeves, American singer ( Martha and the Vandellas )

* 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

* 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Perry King, American actor

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1948 – Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )

* 1948 – Sgt.

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Bill Campbell, American baseball player

* 1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano

* 1948 – Scott Powell, American singer ( Sha Na Na )

In 1948 Australia set new standards, completely outplaying their hosts to win 4 – 0 with one draw.

* 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1948 – Andy Van Hellemond, Canadian ice hockey referee

He was invited by Freeman Gosden to join the cast of the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show as lawyer Gabby Gibson, whom he portrayed from 1944 to 1948.

Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).

In 1948, with his studio deeply in debt, Roach re-established his studio for television production, with Hal Roach, Jr., producing shows such as The Stu Erwin Show, Steve Donovan, Western Marshal, Racket Squad, The Public Defender, The Gale Storm Show, and My Little Margie, and independent producers leasing the facilities for such programs as Amos ' n ' Andy, The Life of Riley, and The Abbott and Costello Show.

Andrew " Andy " King ( 14 September 1948 ) is a British Labour Party politician.

* Andy Fairweather Low, ( born 1948 ), pop musician, lived in Beulah Road, Rhiwbina.

* Andy Leigh – part of a long serving half back line along with McNaught & Young, he made 487 appearances from 1948 to 1963 before running the club ’ s Development Association and then becoming groundsman until 1994

* Andy Fairweather Low ( vocals ) — born Andrew Fairweather Low, 2 August 1948, Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, South Wales.

In 1948, U. S. radio comedians Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were planning to take their long-running comedy program Amos ' n Andy to television.

* " Andy the Office Boy " ( Jolly Chuckles # 6, Martin and Reid, 1948 )

After working on The Pirate ( 1948 ) with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, she left MGM to create the night club act: " Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers " ( Bob, Don, Dick, and Andy Williams ).

from ' 291, 1984 ; Charles Sheeler: Vintage Photographs, 1985 ; Irving Penn: 48 Portraits from 1948, 1992 ; Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the Collection of Georgia O ' Keeffe, 1993 ; Robert Frank: Flower is ... Paris, 1949 – 1951, 1997 ; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Early Experiments, 1922 – 1932, 1997 ; Cropping and Picture Making, 1999 ; Man Ray: Important Vintage Photographs, 1999 ; Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Heads, 2001 ; David Byrne, 2003 ; Andy Warhol: Red Books, 2004 ; Frederick Sommer: Frederick Sommer at 100, 2005 ; Irving Penn: Underfoot, 2005 ; Emmet Gowin: Mariposas Nocturnas, Edith in Panama, 2005 ; Richard Misrach: Chronologies, 2006 ; Harry Callahan: Nature, 2007 ; Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden-Photographs of Central Park, 2007 ; Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, August Sander, 2008 ; Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Prague, 2008 ; Judith Joy Ross: Protest the War, 2008 ; Richard Benson: Found Views and Chosen Colors, 2008.

Core members included founder George Frayne IV ( alias Commander Cody, born 19 July 1944, Boise City, Idaho, USA ) on keyboards & vocals ; Billy C. Farlow ( b. Decatur, Alabama, USA ) on vocals & harmonica ; John Tichy ( b. St. Louis, Missouri, USA ) on guitar & vocals ; Bill Kirchen ( b. 29 January 1948, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ) on lead guitar ; Andy Stein ( b. 31 August 1948, New York, USA ) on saxophone & fiddle ; Paul " Buffalo " Bruce Barlow ( b. 3 December 1948, Oxnard, California, USA ) on bass guitar ; Lance Dickerson ( b. 15 October 1948, Livonia, Michigan, USA ) on drums ; and Bobby Black on steel guitar.

In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.

* 1948 David Low

In response, Thai authors Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote their own account in 1948 and sent it to American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his biography Mongkut, the King of Siam ( 1961 ).

* On July 3, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed a bill authorizing a stamp in honor of Juliette Gordon Low.

After military service Low returned to RPI and received his Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering degree in 1948.

Low returned to RPI late in 1948, however, and received his Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1950.

* With the 6th Airborne Div in Normandy ( Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1948 )

* 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh rock drummer ( Love Sculpture, Man and Dire Straits )

* 1948 – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer

* Welsh Brigade, an administrative formation from 1948 to 1964

* Jeffrey Cuthbert ( born 1948 ), Welsh politician, member of the National Assembly of Wales

Jones founded The Welsh Review in 1939, which he edited until 1948 ; this journal was important for raising discussion of Welsh issues.

Next came the Welsh Review, published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948.

This included The Welsh Review ( 1939 – 1948 ), which later became Dock Leaves and then The Anglo-Welsh Review ( 1949 – 1987 ) and continues ( from 1988 ) as the New Welsh Review.

* J. J. Williams ( born 1948 ), Welsh rugby union winger

Nationalisation followed in 1948, with the English and Welsh lines of the LMS becoming the London Midland Region of British Railways.

He qualified in 1938 at University College Hospital, London, at University College London and joined the Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis Unit at Llandough Hospital, a part of Welsh National School of Medicine, now Cardiff University School of Medicine in 1948.

Attracted by the reputation of the famous international, the Deeside youngsters flocked to join the new team which quickly became a major force in North Wales youth soccer, winning the Welsh Youth Cup in 1948.

In Welsh ( Cymraeg ), a late-riser may be referred to as a saith cysgadur — seven sleeper — as in the 1885 novel Rhys Lewis by Daniel Owen, where the protagonist is referred to as such in chapter 37, p. 294 ( Hughes a ' i Fab, Caerdydd, 1948 ).

* Peter Law ( 1948 – 2006 ), Welsh politician

They had a daughter, Lally Morris Weymouth ( born 1943 ), and three sons: Donald Edward Graham ( born 1945 ), William Welsh Graham ( born 1948 ) and Stephen Meyer Graham ( born 1952 ).

Paul Peter Murphy, KCMCO, KSG ( born 25 November 1948 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Torfaen since 1987, and served in the Cabinet as both Northern Irish and Welsh Secretary.

The Welsh Guards were part of the 1st Guards Brigade and performed internal security ( IS ) duties while there, before leaving in 1948 during the British withdrawal and when the state of Israel was declared.

In 1948 the Welsh National Opera became a limited company and established another centre in Swansea.

Phillip Bennett ( born 24 October 1948 ) is a former Welsh international rugby union fly half from 1969 to 1978.

Pamela E. " Pam " Ferris ( born 11 May 1948 ) is a German-born Welsh actress.

* Wayne Jones ( 1948 ) – Welsh international footballer

WJEC was established in 1948 as a consortium of Welsh Local Education Authorities, replacing the Central Welsh Board.