* 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

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 ).

* Heresies Ancient and Modern, by J. Oswald Sanders, pub. 1948 ( Marshall Morgan & Scott, London / Zondervan, Grand Rapids ).

Weissmuller had five wives: band and club singer Bobbe Arnst ( married 1931 – divorced 1933 ); actress Lupe Vélez ( married 1933 – divorced 1938 ); Beryl Scott ( married 1939 – divorced 1948 ); Allene Gates ( married 1948 – divorced 1962 ); and Maria Baumann ( married 1963 – his death 1984 ).

* 1948 – Scott Fahlman, American computer scientist

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

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

* Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar ; Best Motion Picture, John Paxton ( screenwriter ), Richard Brooks ( author ), Dore Schary ( producer ), Adrian Scott ( associate producer ) and Edward Dmytryk ( director ); 1948.

* Zelda Fitzgerald-( 1900 – 1948 ), wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald

The docks area was featured in some scenes with John Mills for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic.

* Scott Fahlman ( born 1948 ), computer scientist and credited creator of the emoticon

Based on the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat by Isabel Scott Rorick, My Favorite Husband was produced by Jess Oppenheimer, written by Oppenheimer, plus scribes Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr .. Premiering on July 23, 1948 and sponsored by General Foods, Husband became a hit for CBS.

Mills took the lead in Great Expectations in 1946, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Captain Scott in Scott of the Antarctic ( 1948 ).

They had last worked together on Scott of the Antarctic in 1948.

* Scott of the Antarctic ( 1948 )

Their collaboration produced the superior Coroner Creek ( 1948 ) with Scott as a vengeance-driven cowpoke who " predates the Budd Boetticher / Burt Kennedy heroes by nearly a decade ," Gunfighters ( 1947 ) based on the Zane Grey novel Two Sombreros and The Walking Hills ( 1949 ), a modern-day tale of gold hunters.

* July 24 — Zelda Fitzgerald, American author and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald ( died 1948 )

But 1948 saw him step out of the brutish type when he starred in Pitfall, a film noir that sees a bored insurance company worker fall for an innocent but dangerous woman, played by Lizabeth Scott.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald ( July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948 ), born Zelda Sayre (" Sayre " is pronounced to rhyme with " fair ") in Montgomery, Alabama, was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

* Clyde Scott – Silver medalist in 110-meter hurdles at 1948 Olympic Games.

* J. Scott Wiseman Jr-former 1936 graduate and long-time faculty member through at least 1948

Scott catalog number 970, printed in 1948, commemorates Fort Kearny, and number 944, issued in 1946, the capture of Santa Fe.

* William Patrick Scott ( 1880 – 1948 ), Scottish international rugby union player

Around this time, More began appearing in films, starting with a small role in Scott of the Antarctic ( 1948 ) for which he was paid ₤ 500.