* 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 ).

* 1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player

* 1948 – Cliff Harris, American football player

Jimmy Cliff, OM ( born James Chambers on 1 April 1948 ) is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor.

In 1948, Tony Cliff argued that it is difficult to make a critique of bureaucratic collectivism because authors such as Shachtman never actually published a developed account of the theory.

* Tony Cliff, " Marxism and the theory of bureaucratic collectivism " ( 1948 )

Another commonly used metric for assessing the quality of a Guttman scale, is Menzel's coefficient of scalability and the coefficient of homogeneity ( Loevinger, 1948 ; Cliff, 1977 ; Krus and Blackman, 1988 ).

Cliff Branch ( born August 1, 1948 ) is a retired American football wide receiver who spent his entire 14-year NFL career with the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders, winning three Super Bowl rings in Super Bowl XI, Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVIII.

* Cliff Bourland, 1948 Summer Olympics 4X400 Gold medal ; US 400m champion

In his famous book State capitalism in Russia ( 1948 ), Tony Cliff theorized that the law of value " tends to equalise supply and demand, a situation in which price is equal to value, or more correctly, is equal to price of production.

* Jones, Thomas Roy, Printing in America, The Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, New York 1948,

* The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston, West Roxbury / Roslindale Branch records, 1948 – 1995 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

The ' Branch Lines Committee ' of the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) was formed in 1949 with a brief to close the least used branch lines ; a total of railway were closed between 1948 and 1962.

His intelligence experience during World War II was seen as a valuable asset, and he subsequently became head of the IDF Military Intelligence Branch, a position in which he served from 1948 to 1950 and again from 1959 to 1962.

On March 27, 1948, the Chicago Transit Authority ( who had just bought out the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in 1947 ) discontinued service over the Niles Center Branch and replaced it with the # 97 Skokie bus service.

In 1948 the Secretarial Branch Training School relocated from RAF Hereford and the Equipment Officers ’ School was established at Digby.

In late 1948 or early 1949, the last section of highway was paved in Branch County, hard-surfacing all of M-86 for the first time.

The bridge, carrying the Canada Dock Branch over West Derby Road, used to accommodate Tue Brook railway station until 1948.

Starting in 1948 and continuing throughout the Korean War, Davidson was chief, Plans and Estimates Branch, in General Douglas MacArthur's intelligence office.

A protégé of longtime MLB executive Branch Rickey, Narron continued in baseball after his playing career ended in 1948.

In 1948, President Harry Truman appointed Richards to the Medical Affairs Task Force of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government ; Richards also became a director of Merck & Co., for which he had consulted since 1931, and an associate trustee of the University of Pennsylvania in 1948.

The need for more space became critical, and the school's Franklin Branch was opened in 1934 ( closing in 1948 ).

He served in this position until March 1945 Director of the Indian Affairs Branch, a position he held until 1948.

Loomis was a member of the International Arthurian Society ( president of American Branch, 1948 – 63 ), the Modern Language Association, the Mediaeval Academy of America ( fellow ; second vice-president, 1961 – 64 ), the Modern Humanities Research Association, and the American Humanist Association.