* 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 ).

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

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 ).

It's inhabitant fled during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

The Orioles helped develop the doo-wop sound with their hits " It's Too Soon to Know " ( 1948 ) and " Crying in the Chapel " ( 1953 ).

Their other joint credits include Crook's Tour ( 1941 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ), Dead of Night ( 1945 ), It's Not Cricket ( 1949 ), Quartet ( 1948 ), Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ), and Night Train to Munich ( 1940 ), a semi-sequel to The Lady Vanishes.

They brought their winning formula to their first charted hit " It ’ s Too Soon To Know "; a # 1 record in November 1948, soon followed by the group ’ s second hit, "( It's Gonna Be A ) Lonely Christmas ", in December that same year.

In July 1948, they recorded Chessler's song " It's Too Soon To Know ", with Sonny Til taking lead vocals.

Her December 27, 1947, recording of " It's Magic " ( from the Doris Day film Romance on the High Seas ) found chart success in early 1948.

It's far more shocking than what happened in 1948 to a small part of the Arab nation that was then in Palestine.

Another pair of episodes, though not directly sequels, both feature an enchanted watch that allows its bearer to time travel: (" It's Later Than You Think " ( 8 February 1948 ) and " Not Responsible After Thirty Years " ( 14 June 1948 )

For the 1948 film, A Date with Judy, he composed " It's a Most Unusual Day " for Jane Powell ; it became the young singer and actress ' signature tune.

As his opening theme Mayo has used a 2003 recording by Jools Holland and Prince Buster of the 1948 song " Enjoy Yourself ( It's Later than You Think )" by Carl Sigman and by Herb Magidson.

*" It's a Most Unusual Day "-Jane Powell with Wallace Beery, Scotty Beckett, and George Cleveland from A Date with Judy ( 1948 )

With help from his brother, film executive Joe Aller, he composed and performed in film scores, including The Sea Hawk ( 1924 ), Dawn to Dawn ( 1933 ), It's All in Your mind ( 1938 ), Buffalo Bill Rides Again ( 1947 ), and Song of My Heart ( 1948 ), He was also active in southern California's musical community.

They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including Crook's Tour ( 1941 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ), Dead of Night ( 1945 ), Quartet ( 1948 ), It's Not Cricket ( 1949 ) and Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ).

Charles Anthony " Tony " Thomas ( born December 7, 1948 ) is an American television and film producer, who has produced TV series Nurses, Herman's Head, Blossom, Empty Nest, Benson, Beauty and the Beast, The Golden Girls, It's a Living, as well as Dead Poets Society.

( 1948 ) Magic, Science and Religion.

The UPA animators applied their stylistic concepts and storytelling to Columbia's characters The Fox and the Crow with the shorts Robin Hoodlum ( 1948 ) and The Magic Fluke ( 1949 ), both directed by Hubley.

Schwarzkopf later made her official debut at the Royal Opera House on 16 January 1948, as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, in performances sung in English, and at La Scala on 29 June 1950 singing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

One of the most remarkable episodes of this period in JDC history was Operation Magic Carpet, the June 1948 airlift of 50, 000 Yemenite Jews to Israel.

* Annemann's Miracles of Card Magic ( 1948 )

His later signature song was " That Old Black Magic ", by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, which Daniels first recorded for Apollo Records in 1948.

* It was part of the film score in the 1948 Paul Gordon film " Concert Magic ".

Fay Presto ( the stage name of Letitia Winter, born Oliver Winter, May 17, 1948 ) is a British trans woman who is known as a magician and a member of The Inner Magic Circle.

" Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo " ( also called " The Magic Song ") is a novelty song, written in 1948 by Al Hoffman, Mack David, and Jerry Livingston.

By this time, Columbia had signed a distribution deal with a new animation studio, United Productions of America ( UPA ), to produce three " Fox and the Crow " shorts, Robin Hoodlum ( 1948 ), The Magic Fluke ( 1949 ), and Punchy DeLeon ( 1950 ).