* 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 ).

Between 1948 and 1952, she played Portia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Katherine the shrew, Desdemona, Katherine of Aragon, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, and Beatrice to Gielgud's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.

Hermione Lee, CBE FBA FRSL ( born 29 February 1948 ) is President of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths ' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College.

* 2005 – Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer ( b. 1948 )

* 1948 – Lee Oskar, Danish musician ( War and Lowrider Band )

But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).

In 1948 Lee joined Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a rotating host of the NBC Radio musical program Chesterfield Supper Club.

* 1948 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee ( set of 78s: 6 songs )

* March 12 – William C. Lee, U. S. general ( d. 1948 )

* Tarsus ( 1948 – 1960 ), a Turkish Maritime Lines ship formerly the USS Harry Lee ( APA-10 )

It was founded by Robert Lee Stowe Sr. ( 1866 – 1963 ), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe ( 1868 – 1956 ), and Abel Caleb Lineberger ( 1859 – 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had founded Gaston County's second textile mill, the Woodlawn, or " Pinhook ," Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1852 ).

Although he had one professional fight ( against Lee Epperson ), on his record, Marciano began fighting permanently as a professional boxer on July 12, 1948.

Another common origin tale begins the cocktail ’ s history at the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas where, in 1948, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy ( Margaret ) Lee.

* Lee Baker ( 1875 – 1948 ), actor

In 1948, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted Lee College accreditation and recommended that the college develop its own campus apart from the local high school.

* Sammy Lee, two-time Olympic gold medalist in 1948 and 1952

The new " Aegukga " was later adopted by the Presidential Decree of 1948 by then-President Syngman Rhee ( or Lee Seungman ).

It is asserted by the Living Stream Ministry that before his imprisonment, Watchman Nee asked Witness Lee to go to Taiwan in 1948 in the event that the Communists took over so that their work would not be lost inside China.

In 1948, Lee extended his ministry from Taiwan to cities in Malaysia and Indonesia.

* Sonny Boy Williamson I ( 1914 – 1948 ), John Lee Curtis Williamson, " The Original Sonny Boy Williamson ", born in Tennessee and associated with Bluebird Records ( recordings from 1937 to 1948 )

Pamida had its beginnings in a service merchandise business begun in 1948 by Jim Witherspoon and Lee Wegener.

Donald Lee Nickles ( born December 6, 1948 ) is an American politician who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005.

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

Lynda Bellingham ( born Meredith Lee Hughes on 31 May 1948 ) is a Canadian-born English actress, broadcaster and author.

* Robert Lee ( musician ) ( born 1948 ), brother of Bruce Lee