* 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 – David Ingram, American musician, songwriter, and arranger ( AnExchange and Love Song ) ( d. 2005 )

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!

In the last 50 years David has enjoyed a revival in popular favor and in 1948 his two-hundredth birthday was celebrated with an exhibition at the Musée de l ' Orangerie in Paris and at Versailles showing his life's works.

* Dowd, David, Pageant-Master of the Republic, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, ( 1948 )

The state of war between both countries which dated back from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War ended in 1979 with the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty a year after the Camp David Accords.

Debuting in June 1948, the show was broadcast from CBS Studio 50, at 1697 Broadway ( at 53rd Street ) in New York City, which in 1967 was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater ( and is now the home of the Late Show with David Letterman ).

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

* 1948 – Arab – Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.

* 1948 – David Heineman, American politician, 39th governor of Nebraska

* 1948 – David Eisenhower, American author and professor

* 1948 David Low

* 1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host

A book by David Embury published in 1948 provides a slight variation:

" Fire Time " gives the detailed history of a prolonged escalating conflict on a planet colonized simultaneously by humans who call it Mundomar and the nonhuman Naqsans who call it Tseyakka: The historical film of the human leader Sigurdsson declaring the independent republic of Eleutheria in the midst of war is clearly reminiscent of David Ben-Gurion declaring Israel's independence in 1948 ; in a later war, the Eleutherians conquer the Naqsan continent of G ' yaaru, rename it Sigurdssonia and establish settlements in it.

David Niven said she had been " quite, quite mad "; and in his diary Noël Coward expressed surprise that " things had been bad and getting worse since 1948 or thereabouts.

David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence from the United Kingdom on May 14, 1948

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough has written that Humphrey probably did more to get Truman elected in 1948 than anyone other than Truman himself.

Dave Mattacks ( born David James Mattacks, 13 March 1948, Edgware, Middlesex, England ) is a rock and folk drummer.

* Pietrusza, David 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America, Union Square Press, 2011.

* Pietrusza, David 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America, Union Square Press, 2011.