* 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 – Nick Broomfield, English documentarian

** Nick Drake, British musician ( b. 1948 )

* Nick Carter ( cyclist ) ( 1924 – 2003 ), cyclist from New Zealand, who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics

Numerous notable people were born in the town including: James Oglethorpe ( born 1696 ), founder of the colony of Georgia ; Julius Caesar ( born 1830 ), cricketer ; Aldous Huxley ( born 1894 ), writer ; Nick Clarke ( born 1948 ), radio journalist and presenter ; and Mick Mills ( born 1949 ), footballer.

In 1948, while visiting New York, 17-year-old Nick Adamshock wandered into an audition for a play called The Silver Tassie and met Jack Palance ( who was understudying for Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire ).

The Old Nick Company, established in 1948, is the main student theatre company at the University of Tasmania.

Old Nick was created in unison with the first of its uni revues, Smokin ’ Hot, in 1948, in an attempt to harness the student exuberance which had seen the annual Commemoration Days of several previous years degenerate into public chaos.

A conservatively estimated 600, 000 people have sat in audiences to see Old Nick shows since 1948 and there are many, many thousands who have been a part of the Company at some stage in their lives.

Nick Udall, son of John H. Udall, followed in his father's footsteps, and served as mayor of Phoenix, AZ, from 1948 – 52.

Nicholas " Nick " Broomfield ( born January 30, 1948 ) is an English documentary film-maker.

From 1946 to 1948 he worked as a journalist in the Department of Information in Canberra and then as press secretary and private secretary to Senator Nick McKenna until 1951.

* " The Nick Saint Caper " ( December 26, 1948 )

The 1948 Oaks were nicknamed the “ Nine Old Men ” in that many of the star players were older veterans of the major leagues, including Ernie Lombardi, Cookie Lavagetto, Nick Etten and Catfish Metkovich.

This first lineup featured Jim Rutledge ( b. January 24, 1947 ) – drums / vocals, Nick Taylor ( b. October 29, 1946-d. March 10, 2010 ) – guitar / vocals, Ed Grundy ( b. March 10, 1948 ) – bass / vocals, and

The Leafs struggled early in the 1948 – 49 season having lost Apps and Nick Metz to retirement, and then Kennedy for a month and Cal Gardner for two months due to injuries.

Nicodemo Antonio Massimo " Nick " Mancuso ( born May 29, 1948 ) is a Canadian cinema and stage actor.

* The Noose Hangs High ( 1948 ) — Nick Craig

* Nick Broomfield ( born 1948 ), English documentary film-maker

Jake Riviera ( born Andrew Jakeman, February 1948, in Edgware, Middlesex ) is a music business entrepreneur best known for his management of such performers as Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe and as co-founder ( with Dave Robinson ) of pioneering British indie label Stiff Records.

After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

* 1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor

* 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, author, and actor

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

* 1948 – Christopher Biggins, English actor

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

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor

* 1948 – Flip Mark, American actor

* 1948 – Gérard Darmon, French movie actor and singer

* 1948 – Ken Foree, American actor

* 1948 – Dennis Waterman, British actor

* 1948 – John Ashton, American actor

* 1948 – Tino Insana, American voice actor

* 1948 – Christopher Guest, American film actor and director

* 1948 – Gilbert Sicotte, Canadian actor

In February 1948, he was introduced to Marcello Mastroianni, then a young theatre actor appearing in a play with Giulietta Masina.

Laurence Olivier's 1948 moody black-and-white Hamlet won best picture and best actor Oscars, and is still, as of 2011, the only Shakespeare film to have done so.

* John Ford Coley ( born 1948 ), American pianist, guitarist, actor and author ; one-half of 1970 – 80 acoustic act, England Dan & John Ford Coley

* 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor ( b. 1948 )

* 1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor

* 1948 – Powers Boothe, American actor

* 1948 – Steve Eastin, American actor

* 1932 – Billy Laughlin, American actor ( d. 1948 )