* 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 ).

It ended when he fired Duncan in the fall of 1948.

The modern literature in Public Choice began with Duncan Black, who in 1948 identified the underlying concepts of what would become median voter theory.

After 1953's I Confess, Hitchcock planned to film The Bramble Bush, based on the 1948 novel by David Duncan, as a Transatlantic Pictures production with partner Sidney Bernstein.

Kate Jackson ( born October 29, 1948 ) is an American actress, director, and producer, perhaps best known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels.

* December 8-John Duncan MacLean, teacher, physician, politician and Premier of British Columbia ( d. 1948 )

Duncan Lee Hunter ( born May 31, 1948 ) is an American politician.

* Robert Duncan ( bishop ) ( born 1948 ), Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America

John Duncan MacLean ( 8 December 1873, in Culloden, Prince Edward Island – 28 March 1948, in Ottawa, Ontario ) was a teacher, physician, politician and the 20th Premier of British Columbia, Canada.

He was the winner of the Senior Batting Prize in 1948, a Rugger Coloursman in 1948 and 1949, Athletics Lion in 1949, and winner of the first Duncan White Challenge Cup for Athletics in 1948.

He married Jean Emert Duncan of Knoxville, Tennessee, in July 1948 and remained married to her for 42 years, until his death in 1990.

The group was formed after the three musicians from The Deviants ( Paul Rudolph, born Vancouver, Canada, guitar and vocals ; Duncan Sanderson, born 31 December 1948, Carlisle, Cumbria, bass ; Russell Hunter, born Barry Russell Hunter, 26 April 1946, Woking, Surrey, drums ), sacked their singer and leader Mick Farren during a disastrous tour of the West Coast of the United States.

After the war, Duncan enrolled in Cumberland University's law school, from which he graduated in 1948.

John Morris Duncan, PC, MP, ( born December 19, 1948 ) is a Canadian politician sitting as a member of the Canadian Parliament from 1993 to January 2006 and again from October 2008.

* John Duncan MacLean ( 1873 – 1948 ), Canadian politician, Premier of British Columbia 1927 – 1928

Rees left the band in June 1967 to be replaced by Farren's flatmate Duncan Sanderson ( born 21 December 1948, in Carlisle, Cumbria ) and the band released a second album Disposable through the independent label Stable Records.

* John Duncan ( British Army officer ) ( 1872 – 1948 ), British general

* John Duncan ( Canadian politician ) ( born 1948 ), MP from British Columbia

Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher OBE ( born 27 September 1948 ) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer, formerly captain of the Zimbabwean cricket team and the current coach of the Indian Cricket Team since April 27, 2011.

In 1948, Duncan received his LL. B from the University of Michigan Law School and passed the bar in October of that year.

William Duncan MacMillan ( July 24, 1871 – 1948 ) was an American mathematician and astronomer.

Duncan Cameron ( August 1, 1865 — October 1948 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.