* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 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 ).

Joseph Martin " Joschka " Fischer ( born April 12, 1948 ) is a German politician of the Alliance ' 90 / The Greens.

* Joschka Fischer ( born 1948 ), former foreign minister of Germany

* 1948: " Lied über die Gerechtigkeit " (" Song of Justice ", after W. Fischer )

He had multiple wins over all seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985: Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov., but lifetime minus scores against them.

* Claude S. Fischer ( born 1948 ), American sociologist

* Franz Joseph Emil Fischer ( 1877 – 1948 ), chemist, famous for the Fischer-Tropsch process

After Georg Kulenkampff's death in 1948, he replaced Kulenkampff in a famous piano trio with Edwin Fischer and Enrico Mainardi.

* Joseph Martin Fischer ( born 1948 ), German politician

* 1948 – 1973: Rudolf Fischer ( 1913 – 2003 )

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

* 1948 – Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

* 1948 – Georg Brunnhuber, German politician

* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

* 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer

* 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general ( d. 1948 )

* 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German nazi physician ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German football player and manager

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

* 1948 – Herbert Wiesinger, German pairs skater

* 1948 – Otto Waalkes, German comedian and actor

* 1948 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

The Kiel Canal (, NOK ), known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal until 1948, is a long canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

** German Reichsmark, German coinage from 1924 to 1948

** East German Mark, official currency of the German Democratic Republic from 1948 to 1990

* 1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician

* 1948 – Theodor Morell, German nazi physician ( b. 1886 )