* 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 – Jeff Baxter, American guitarist ( Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers )

* 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist ( b. 1948 )

* Jeff Sheridan ( born 1948 ), American magician

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

They had four children: the actors Beau Bridges ( born in 1941 ) and Jeff Bridges ( born in 1949 ); a daughter, Lucinda Louise Bridges ( born in October 1953 ); and another son, Garrett Myles Bridges, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on August 3, 1948.

Jeffrey Allen " Jeff Skunk " Baxter ( born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D. C .) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s.

* Jeff Newman ( American baseball player ) ( born 1948 ), American All Star baseball player and manager

By the mid-1980s, the band consisted of principal members Richards and keyboardist Brian Chatton ( born Brian Charles Chatton, 19 July 1948, in Bolton, Lancashire ), along with Jeff Seopardi on drums, Nico Ramsden on guitar, and Mark Smith on bass.

* Jeff Kennett ( born 1948 ), politician

A Novel Of The Life And Times Of Jeff Lister, King Of The Commons, The Pride Of Norfolk ( 1948 ) as Stephen Southwold

Jeff Sheridan ( b. 1948 ) is an American magician who started his career by specializing in street magic.

Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC ( born 2 March 1948 ), a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999.

Kennett was born in Melbourne on 2 March 1948, and educated at Scotch College.

* 1948 – The Australian cricket team completed a 4 – 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.

* 1948 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress ( d. 1991 )

* 1948 – Stevie Wright, English-born Australian musician and songwriter

* 1948 – Kim Beazley, Australian politician

* 1948 – Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.

However, even though the implementation of the Australian Citizenship Act in 1948 established the concept of an independent Australian citizenship, the idea of Australian-born persons being appointed governor of New South Wales was much earlier.

* 1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian politician

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO ( 18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980 ) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering ( in 1948 ) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder ( then known as manic depression ).

Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

* 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor

* Tim Pickup ( born 1948 ), Australian rugby league footballer

* 1948 – Max Walker, Australian cricketer

* 1948 – Christopher Skase, Australian businessman ( d. 2001 )

* 1948 – Garth Porter, Australian singer-songwriter and producer ( Sherbet )

Fry insisted that Grace would not have started the 1948 season with any notion of being beaten by that season's Australian touring team, for " he was sanguine " and would have put everything he could muster into the task of beating them with no acceptance of defeat " till after it happened ".

* August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck ; however, " The Invincibles " win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.

* April 27 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist ( d. 1948 )

Forensic science has been fostered by a number of national forensic science learned bodies including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1948 ; publishers of the Journal of Forensic Sciences ), the Canadian Society of Forensic Science ( founded 1953 ; publishers of the Journal of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science ), The British Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1960 ; publishers of Medicine, science and the law ( journal )), and the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1967 ; publishers of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences ).