* 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 – 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 ).

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

In 1948 Lee joined Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a rotating host of the NBC Radio musical program Chesterfield Supper Club.

* 1948: Perry Oaks farm was demolished.

* 1944 to 1948: Some pupils from the Perry Oaks area had to be brought to and from the school by taxi to avoid them having to walk across the airport construction area.

Goalkeeper George Farm signed in 1948 as did outside-left Bill Perry in 1949.

*" Rambling Rose " ( 1948 song ), a song popularized by Perry Como and Gordon MacRae

He played the title role in Bulldog Drummond ( 1942 – 43 ) and was heard in the daytime radio serial Perry Mason, 1948's Roger Kilgore, Public Defender, and as the title character in The Adventures of Charlie Chan ( 1947 – 1948 ), The Affairs of Peter Salem from 1949 to 1953, and Hannibal Cobb ( 1950 – 1951 ).

She was born to Dr. John Strong Perry Tatlock ( 1876 – 1948 ) and Marjorie Fenton Tatlock.

Pierre Watkin was the first actor that played Perry White, in the two Superman serials starring Kirk Alyn from 1948 and 1950.

A recording made on December 2, 1947 was a hit for Perry Como in the spring of 1948.

* Perry Como ( 1948 )

Fletcher Joseph " Joe " Perry ( January 22, 1927 – April 25, 2011 ) was a professional American football fullback for the San Francisco 49ers from 1948 to 1950 ( while the 49ers were a member of the NFL's rival league, the AAFC ), then 1950 to 1960 when the 49ers were absorbed into the NFL, the Baltimore Colts from 1961 to 1962, and finally back to the 49ers for his final year in football, 1963.

Perry then went directly into pro football joining the 49ers ' in 1948.

It was featured in the 1948 film Words and Music, where it was sung by Perry Como, who played Eddie Lorrison Anders.

Charles initially became associated with Perry Como in 1948 through being part of the vocal group " The Satisfiers ".

* 1861 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria ( d. 1948 )

The Jericho Conference, organized by King Abdullah and attended by over 2, 000 Palestinian delegates in 1948 proclaimed " His Majesty Abdullah as King of all Palestine " and called for " the unification of Palestine and Transjordan as a step toward full Arab unity.

In 1948, King retired, and quietly persuaded his senior ministers to support St-Laurent's selection as the new Liberal leader at the Liberal leadership convention of August 1948.

Marge Devine Duffy, a secretary in King Features public relations department, had been helping Russell handle correspondence to the NCS, and in 1948, she was installed as the official NCS secretary and later given the title Scribe of the Society.

* 1879 – King Baggot, American actor ( d. 1948 )

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the 10th Prime Minister of Canada ( 1921 – 1926 ; 1926 – 1930 ; 1935 – 1948 )

Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).

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

On January 20, 1948, King called on the Liberal Party to hold its first national convention since 1919 to choose a leader.

* Stacey, C. P. Canada and the Age of Conflict: Volume 2: 1921 – 1948 ; the Mackenzie King Era, University of Toronto Press 1981, ISBN 0-08-202397-5.

The inaugural edition of Playfair Cricket Annual in 1948 coincided with the centenary of Grace's birth and carried a tribute which spoke of Grace as " King in his own domain " and his " Olympian personality ".

* February 26 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria ( d. 1948 )

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

* March 18 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga ( b. 1948 )

In May 1948, after the end of the British mandate and army withdrawal, King Farouk sent the Egyptian army into Palestine, with Nasser serving in the 6th Infantry Battalion.

In response, Thai authors Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote their own account in 1948 and sent it to American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his biography Mongkut, the King of Siam ( 1961 ).

The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ( uncredited ) and Beirne Lay, Jr. from the 1948 novel 12 O ' Clock High, also by Bartlett and Lay.

Marilyn Monroe was named the festival's Artichoke Queen in February 1948 and William Hung was named the Artichoke King in 2006.

On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname " The Donut King " while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States during the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1948, Hachiro Kasuga won King Records ' first talent contest.

Her recording of " Nature Boy " from April 8, 1948, became a hit around the same time as the release of the famous Nat King Cole recording of the same song.