* 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 ).

** Henry John Montague Nevill, Earl of Lewes ( 1948 – 1965 )

Her cousins included Henry Alexander Baldwin ( 1871 – 1946 ) and Clarence Hyde Cooke ( 1876 – 1944 ) who carried on the family businesses, Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. ( 1874 – 1948 ) who studied snails ( malacology ), and architect Charles William Dickey ( 1871 – 1942 ).

Augustus Montague Summers ( 10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948 ) was an English author and clergyman.

Montague Summers died at his home in Richmond, Surrey in August 1948.

* Ed Montague ( umpire ) ( born 1948 ), American baseball umpire

* Woodhouse, Christopher Montague ( 1948 ).

* Montague Summers ( 1880 – 1948 ), English author and clergyman

Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames ( 9 May 1875 – 5 March 1948 ) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920-1922.

* Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. ( 1874 – 1948 ), American malacologist

Edmond Montague " Eddy " Grant ( born 5 March 1948 ) is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.

* Henry John Montague Nevill, Earl of Lewes ( 1948 – 1965 ), died young.

From 1946 to 1948 Summers was a regular actor in the drama portion of The All-Star Western Theatre, a radio program hosted by Foy Willing and his Riders of the Purple Sage.

In January 1948, while traveling on Route 66 through Oklahoma, the couple ’ s car driven by Summers skidded off the road and plummeted 20 feet into a frozen creek bed.

Summers umpired in 8 World Series ( 1936, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955 and 1959 ), tying the AL record shared by three other arbiters.

* Adrian Legg ( born 1948 ), English guitar player

* 1948 – George Ryton, English engineer

* 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 – Jeremy Spencer, English musician ( Fleetwood Mac )

* 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 )