* 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 ).

** Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut and teacher ( b. 1948 )

Christa McAuliffe ( September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

** Christa McAuliffe ( b. 1948 )

Stuck and Paula divorced in 1948, and he married Christa that year.

In 1947 and 1948 the necessity of massive coordinated efforts to achieve economic recovery led to the formation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to supervise and coordinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall Plan.

* 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player

* 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Terry Adams, American pianist and composer ( NRBQ )

* 1948 – Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player

* 1948 – Sue Monk Kidd, American author

* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor

* 1948 – Tipper Gore, American author and photographer, co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center

* 1948 – Rudy Ruettigerr, American football player

* 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.

* 1948 – Daniel Okrent, American writer and editor

* 1948 – Joan D. Vinge, American author

* 1948 – Vonda McIntyre, American author

* 1867 – John Robert Gregg, American educator, publisher, and humanitarian, invented the Gregg shorthand ( d. 1948 )

* 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator ( b. 1948 )

* Alfred Young Man ( b. 1948 ), educator, writer, curator, artist

* James Chidester Egbert, Jr. ( 1859 – 1948 ), American classical scholar and educator

She was survived by her young son, Jonathan Oppenheim, and by her ex-husband, clarinetist, conductor and educator, David Oppenheim, whom she had married in 1948 and divorced in 1958.

Beard ( 1874 – 1948 ), educator, historian

* Jim Ferguson ( James Edwin Ferguson, born 1948, Ohio ), American guitarist, composer, author, educator, and music journalist

SwCC was founded in 1948 by the educator and minister G. P. Bowser.

* W. Dean Eastman ( born 1948 ), American educator

D. ( April 10, 1862 – October 5, 1948 ) was an American educator and political figure who was the 71st Governor of Connecticut for eight years.

His role as an educator has been less documented, but he held and proposed views on education and culture that were to be used in inimical ways by the Apartheid government when it came into power in 1948 and legislating the Bantu Education Act.

* John Fraser ( educator ), Principal of Edinburgh University, 1944 – 1948

Karl Earl Mundt ( June 3, 1900August 16, 1974 ) was an American educator and a Republican member of the United States Congress, representing South Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1938 to 1948 and in the United States Senate from 1948 to 1973.

* John Bennett ( educator ) ( born 1948 ), Australian education administrator

Allen Shawn ( born 1948 ) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and author who lives in Vermont.

* Henry Marten ( educator ) ( 1872 – 1948 ), Provost of Eton

Roger John Gallaway, PC ( born May 23, 1948 in Sarnia, Ontario ) is an educator and retired Canadian politician.

Judy Lynn Genshaft ( born January 1948 ) is an American educator and university administrator.

John Robert Gregg ( b. 17 June 1867, Shantonagh, Monaghan, Ireland – d. 23 February 1948, New York City, New York ) was an educator, publisher, humanitarian, and the inventor of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand.

Eamon Everall ( born 6 October 1948 ) is an English artist and educator.

* Thomas Sovereign Gates ( 1873 – 1948 ), U. S. educator, first president of the University of Pennsylvania