* 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 – 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 ).

Her death deeply affected him and he would later pay tribute to her in his 1948 poem " In Memory of Kathleen.

In 1964 / 65, the English composer David Bedford set an extract from Patchen's 1948 poem " In Memory of Kathleen " to classical music for the piece A Dream of the Lost Seven Stars.

* Kathleen Paige ( born 1948 ), rear admiral, U. S. Navy, program director, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense

* Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington ( 1920 – 1948 ), sister of U. S. President John F. Kennedy

After an affair with Lorna Garman, he went on to marry, in 1948, her niece Kathleen " Kitty " Epstein, daughter of sculptor Jacob Epstein and socialite Kathleen Garman.

* Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish ( 1920 – 1948 ), Marchionness of Hartington, member of the Kennedy Family

Susan Kathleen Doughty, known as Sue Doughty, ( born Susan Kathleen Powell 13 April 1948 ) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

Kathleen Sebelius (; née Gilligan ; born May 15, 1948 ) is an American politician currently serving as the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Subsequent productions, overseen by Betty Box ( who at the time was the only major female producer in British cinema ), included Miranda ( 1948 ) and the Huggett family series with Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, and Petula Clark.

Kathleen Agnes " Kick " Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington ( February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948 ), born Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, was the fourth child and second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.

* Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington ( September 1944 – 1948 )

In October 1957, at the dedication of a gymnasium at Manhattanville College in memory of another Kennedy sister, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington — who had died in a plane crash in 1948 — Jean Kennedy introduced Joan to her brother Ted, then a student at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville.

She was a crisp, opulent blonde with blue eyes who appeared in several British films, including Scott of the Antarctic ( 1948 ) as Kathleen Scott.

Kathleen " Kathy " Patterson ( b. June 21, 1948 ) is a politician from Washington, D. C. From 1995 to 2007, she was a Democratic member of the Council of the District of Columbia, where she served as the elected member for Ward 3, a post now held by Mary Cheh.

* 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the " Battle of London Airport ".

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

" Dole had to wait nine hours on the battlefield before being taken to the 15th Evacuation Hospital, where he began a recovery that would take until 1948 at Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan ( where Dole met future fellow politicians Daniel Inouye and Philip Hart ).

* Andrea Orzoff, Battle for the Castne: Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914 – 1948, Oxford University Press, 2009

During the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, the kibbutz was attacked by Egypt, in the Battle of Yad Mordechai.

11 Iyar-( 1948 )-The Battle at Degania

Samuel Richard Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson had been incarcerated at Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary and were executed on December 3, 1948, for the murder of two prison guards during the Battle of Alcatraz.

* Sam Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson: convicted of killing a guard in the 1946 Battle of Alcatraz escape attempt, executed together in the gas chamber on December 3, 1948.

# REDIRECT Battle of Haifa ( 1948 )

The Battle of Haifa, called by the Jewish forces Operation Bi ' ur Hametz (, " Passover Cleaning ") was a Haganah operation carried out on 21 – 22 April 1948.

* Coupland, Sir Reginald Zulu Battle Piece: Isandhlwana, London, 1948.

( 1940 ), Words for Battle ( 1941 ), A Diary for Timothy ( with a narration written by E. M. Forster, 1945 ), The Dim Little Island ( 1948 ) and Family Portrait ( his last completed film, which tells of the Festival of Britain, 1950 ).

A single-volume condensed version, edited by John Tebbel, is available as The Battle for North America ( 1948 ).

After nationalisation in 1948 the Southern Region Battle of Britain and West Country 4-6-2 locomotives were a common sight.

** Volume III: The Battle of Cambrai, Captain Wilfrid Miles, 1948

The Regiment won the Battle Honour ' Pir Kanthi ' in the Uri Sector in the war of 1948 and ' Shingo ' in the Kargil Sector in war of 1971.

Battle was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1968.

When the Virginia delegation was threatened with expulsion at the 1952 Democratic Party national convention for refusing to sign a loyalty oath to whomever the party nominated, Battle delivered a speech to the convention that forestalled expulsion and helped prevent a split like the Democrats experienced in 1948.

A Norwegian movie about the sabotage operation against the heavy water power plant was made in 1948, starring several of the original saboteurs, and titled " Kampen om tungtvannet " ( Norway ), " La Bataille de l ' eau lourde " ( France ) og " Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water " ( USA ).

In January 1948 the Hong Kong Chinese Training Unit ( HKCTU ) was formed by Hong Kong Chinese who had served in the various artillery and coastal defence units during the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II, with the aim of recruiting and training Hong Kong Chinese soldiers to assist and support the British Garrison in Hong Kong.

In 1948 Delano was commissioned to design the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial ( 1948 – 1956 ), one of fourteen World War II monuments constructed abroad by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

The Battle of Yad Mordechai was fought between Egypt and Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, at the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai.

In 1948, a Newark, New Jersey promoter booked two sets of blind gospel singers – the Happy Land Jubilee Singers from Alabama and the Jackson Harmoneers from Mississippi – and advertised the program as " Battle of the Blind Boys ".