* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach

* 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 – Jeremy Spencer, English musician ( Fleetwood Mac )

* 1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor

Jeremy Cedric Spencer ( born 4 July 1948 ), is a British musician, best known as one of the first guitarists in Fleetwood Mac.

Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadle MBE ( 12 April 1948 – 30 January 2008 ) was an English television presenter, writer and producer.

Professor Popkin is survived by Juliet ( née Greenstone ), whom he married in 1944, and two of their three children, Jeremy Popkin ( b. 1948 ) and his younger daughter, Susan Popkin ( b. 1961 ).

Beadle was born in Hackney, East London, on 12 April 1948.

* Adrian Legg ( born 1948 ), English guitar player

* 1948 – George Ryton, English engineer

* 1948 – Montague Summers, English writer ( b. 1880 )

* 1948 – Christopher Biggins, English actor

* 1948 – Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian

Carr analyzes how English dictionaries gloss Taoisms pronunciation, comparing 12 published in Great Britain ( 1933 – 1989 ) and 11 published in the United States ( 1948 – 1987 ).

* 1948 – Noel Edmonds, English game show host

* 1948 – Chris Old, English cricketer

When he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he " roused the Royal family to shrieks of laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned English variety into an American preserve.

* 1948 – Tony Iommi, English guitarist ( Black Sabbath )

* 1948 – Tim Staffell, English singer ( Smile )

* 1948 – Mike Figgis, English director

* 1948 – Roger Williamson, English racecar driver ( d. 1973 )

* 1871 – Harry Brearley, English inventor ( d. 1948 )

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

* John Ford ( musician ) ( born 1948 ), English singer, songwriter and guitarist in rock genre ; long career lasting from British Invasion to 21st century

* 1948 – Nick Broomfield, English documentarian

* 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician

* Les Parents terribles ( English title, The Storm Within ) ( 1948 )

* 1948 – John Ford, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Strawbs, The Monks, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera )

* 1948 – Phil Wheatley, English civil servant

* 1881 – Harry Price, English psychic researcher and writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1863 – Aubrey Smith, English cricketer and actor ( d. 1948 )