* 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 – Jan Palach, Czech activist ( d. 1969 )

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

* 1948 – Jan Reker, Dutch football manager

* 1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech diplomat and politician ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Jan Hoag, American actress

* January 19 – Jan Palach, Czech student protester ( suicide ) ( b. 1948 )

** Jan Verheul, Dutch architect and watercolourist ( d. 1948 )

* September 14 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia ( d. 1948 )

For example, it has been used to describe the death of Jan Masaryk, who was found below the bathroom window of the building of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 March 1948.

Afterwards the 10-piece line-up was reduced to four ; Ernst Jansz ( May 24, 1948 ; keyboards, sax, percussion ), Jan Hendriks ( September 20, 1949 ; guitar ), Carel Copier ( drums ) and Piet Dekker ( bass ).

Other notable events in Prague's history include the defenestration of the Old-Town portreeve along with the bodies of seven murdered New-Town aldermen in 1483, and the death in 1948 of politician Jan Masaryk, whose body was found in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry, below his bathroom window.

* On March 10, 1948, the Czechoslovakian minister of foreign affairs Jan Masaryk was found dead, dressed in his pajamas, in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window.

* Baron-1 Jan 1948 ( Conferred 17 Feb 1948 )

** 1948 – Jan Schouten

Their son, Jan Masaryk, served as Foreign Minister in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile ( 1940 – 1945 ) and in the governments of 1945 to 1948.

During the city presidency of Jan Kapusta ) the town opened an annual Arts Festival in 1948.

* 1948 – 1949 Jan Kapusta

Jan Garrigue Masaryk ( September 14, 1886 – March 10, 1948 ) was a Czech diplomat and politician and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948.

July 1948 he founds the Reflex Experimentele Groep in Holland with Corneille, Karel Appel and his brother Jan Nieuwenhuys.

1 ( Jan. 1948 )- v. 3 ( 1950 ); v. 1-2 also pts.

The first Chancellor of the new university was Prince Arthur of Connaught and the first Principal ( a position that would be merged with that of Vice-Chancellor in 1948 ) was Professor Jan Hofmeyr Hofmeyr set the tone of the University's subsequent opposition to apartheid when, during his inaugural address as Principal he declared, while discussing the nature of a university and its desired function in a democracy, that universities " should know no distinctions of class, wealth, race or creed ".

Cockburn married in 1981 Janet Elisabeth (" Jan ") Montefiore ( 14 November 1948 ), an English Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, daughter of Rt.