* 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 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Amen Corner and Fair Weather )

* 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 ).

* The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, co-edited by Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim

According to Avi Shlaim, " purity of arms " is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version of the 1948 war ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

Confirming as has been argued elsewhere, notably by Avi Shlaim in ' the debate about 1948 ' that the myth of the invading ' Arab armies ' calling Palestinians to flee is totally unsustainable and without substance.

Avi Shlaim, professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, and himself a New Historian, writes that Morris investigated the 1948 exodus of the Palestinians " as carefully, dispassionately, and objectively as it is ever likely to be ", and that The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem is an " outstandingly original, scholarly, and important contribution " to the study of the issue.

* 2010 – Markus Liebherr, German-Swiss businessman ( b. 1948 )

* 1948 – Tom Curley, American journalist and businessman

* 1948 – Christopher Skase, Australian businessman ( d. 2001 )

The concept of Tax Freedom Day was developed in 1948 by Florida businessman Dallas Hostetler, who trademarked the phrase " Tax Freedom Day " and calculated it each year for the next two decades.

* January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon.

* Sir William Edge, 1st Baronet ( 1880 – 1948 ), British businessman and politician

* Steven Massarsky ( 1948 – 2007 ), American lawyer and businessman ; founder of Voyager Communications.

Francis Joseph " Frank " McKenna, PC, OC, ONB, QC ( born January 19, 1948 ) is a Canadian businessman and former politician and diplomat.

The Gravity Research Foundation, established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson ( founder of Babson College ), was an organization designed to find ways to implement gravitational shielding.

* Grigory Nemtsov ( 1948 – 2010 ), Latvian journalist, businessman and politician

After he dispatched Lafargue and Mills, Long overwhelmed his Republican opponent, Charles S. Gerth, a businessman from New Orleans, who had also run for senator in 1948 against Long's long-term colleague, Allen J. Ellender, but as a Democrat.

* Alvah C. Roebuck ( 1864 – 1948 ), American businessman and co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company

* William Horace Temple ( 1899 – 1988 ), temperance crusader, businessman, CCF member of the Ontario Legislature, 1948 – 1951

* Jack Simons ( 1882 – 1948 ), Australian businessman and politician

* Edmund Browne ( born 1948 ), member of the House of Lords and businessman

Derek ' Degsy ' Hatton ( born 17 January 1948 at Liverpool ) is a former politician, broadcaster, property developer businessman and after-dinner speaker.

* Pat Powers ( businessman ) ( 1870 – 1948 ), Irish-American businessman

John Towers CBE ( born 30 March 1948 ) is an English businessman, who was the managing director of Rover Group Ltd from 2000 until the company entered administration in 2005.

* Michael F Smith ( born 1948 ), Anglo-American computer scientist and businessman

In 1948, Oregon State president August L. Strand, athletic director Spec Keene, and Portland businessman Charles T. Parker met to plan a replacement for Bell Field.

* John Brock ( CEO ) ( born 1948 ), American businessman

* Lorne Trottier ( born 1948 ), Canadian businessman

* Gérard Depardieu ( born 1948 ), actor and businessman