* 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 ).

Category: 1948 Summer Olympic venues

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

This event has been an Olympic medal event since the first modern Olympics in 1896 ( a medal event for women since 1948 ) and has a history in the Ancient Olympic Games.

Beck did actually draw versions with other formats, 22½ degrees rather than 45 ( the Paris Métro version uses 22½ degrees as a base ); and an unused version for the 1948 Olympic Games.

William Lyon Mackenzie King greeting Barbara Ann Scott, who won a gold medal in figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, at Ottawa

In 1948, while the Olympic Games were being held in London, he organized a sports competition for wheelchair athletes at Stoke Mandeville.

The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

First held in 1949, the Badminton event was created after a poor performance by the British Eventing Team at the 1948 Olympic Games, with the purpose of being a high-class preparation event, and as extra exposure for the military horses, who very rarely had the chance to compete.

He enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1945 at age 16, and was among Canada's outstanding track sprinters in the late 1940s, qualifying for the 1948 Olympic team.

* The Official Films Of The Olympic Games: London 1948 ( Volume 1 )

At the time of the 1948 Summer Olympics, held in London, a relay of runners carried the Olympic Flame from Wembley Stadium, where the Games were based, to the sailing centre at Torbay via Slough, Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Exeter.

* John Anderson ( athlete ) ( 1907 – 1948 ), American Olympic discus thrower

* Gaston Reiff, 3000 meters world record holder for five years, Olympic gold on the 1948 5000 meters

* Boxer Kevin Finnegan ( 1948 – 2008 ), brother of Olympic gold medalist Chris, lived in Hayes

Kenny Rollins, an American basketball player who was a member of the University of Kentucky's " Fab Five " who won the 1948 NCAA Championship, the 1948 Gold Medal Winning U. S. Olympic Team, and the NBA's Chicago Stags and Boston Celtics.

* William Smith ( swimmer ) ( born 1924 ), two-time gold medalist in the 1948 Olympic games

Kenny Rollins, an American basketball player who was a member of the University of Kentucky's " Fab Five " who won the 1948 NCAA Championship, the 1948 Gold Medal Winning U. S. Olympic Team, and the NBA's Chicago Stags and Boston Celtics.

* Karol Kennedy – 1952 Olympic silver medalist who competed in the 1948 and 1952 games in figure skating

Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935 ; the city wanted to host the 1948 Games, but World War II made that impossible.

Japan and Germany made their returns to Olympic competition, after being forced to miss the 1948 Games in the aftermath of World War II.