* 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 ).

Palestine Potash Company supplied half of Britain's potash during World War II, but ultimately became a casualty of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

The state of war between both countries which dated back from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War ended in 1979 with the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty a year after the Camp David Accords.

# REDIRECT 1948 Arab – Israeli War

Israeli independence in 1948 was marked by massive migrations of Jews from both Europe and the Islamic world to Israel, and of Arabs from Israel leading to extensive conflict with the Arab League.

The 1948 Palestine war entered its second phase with the intervention of the Arab state armies and the beginning of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

The Israeli Declaration of Independence (, Hakhrazat HaAtzma ' ut or Megilat HaAtzma ' ut ), was made on 14 May 1948 ( 5 Iyar 5708 ), the day before the British Mandate was due to expire.

Over the next few days the armies of Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, and Syria invaded Israel, and officially and militarily threatened to occupy the whole of the former Mandate territory, thereby starting the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, known in Israel as the War of Independence (, Milhamat HaAtzma ' ut ).

And from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War until the early 1970s, 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 Jews left, fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries ; 260, 000 of them reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 ; and 600, 000 by 1972.

* 1948 – Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler ( d. 1972 )

* 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

* 1948 – Arab – Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.

The city was under Jordanian occupation from 1948 to 1967, and under Israeli occupation from 1967 to 1994, when control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority.

In 1948, the Lebanese Third Sharp Shooters Regiment fought Israeli Forces occupying the Lebanese village of Malkieh in the northern Galilee and captured it, and that by the orders of Lebanese defense minister then, Emir Majid Arslan II.

The Mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948, and the 1948 Arab – Israeli War began.

* 1948 – Arab – Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.

The next was in 1948 by the violinist Louis Kaufman, mistakenly credited as the ' first ' recording, made during the night in New York using ' dead ' studio time and under pressure from a forthcoming musicians strike.

* April 3-Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist ( d. 1948 )

* February 1-Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter ( d. 1948 )

The Concerto had been written for Oistrakh and Shostakovich initially played the work through for the violinist in 1948.

Michael Karoli ( 29 April 1948 – 17 November 2001 ) was a German guitarist, violinist and composer.

* John Holloway ( musician ) ( born 1948 ), British baroque violinist

Late in 1948 the others told him they wanted a different second violinist.

John Holloway ( born 19 July 1948 ) is a British baroque violinist and conductor, currently based in Dresden, Germany.

Kyung-wha Chung ( born 26 March 1948, Seoul, South Korea ) is a Korean violinist.

Jacques Israelievitch ( born May 6, 1948 in Cannes, France ) is a French violinist, and one of Canada's foremost chamber musicians.

Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu (; April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949 August 5, 1948 ) was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso.