* 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 ).

The first postwar elections were held in 1948 ( women were given the franchise for the first time in 1947 ), and the Liberal Party's vice president, Yoshida Shigeru ( 1878 – 1967 ), became prime minister.

Then in 1948, the Doshi Club defected to the new Democratic Liberal Party, and Tanaka instantly won favor with the DLP's leader, Shigeru Yoshida.

A meeting with the then Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida ( 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954 ) convinced Mr. Jiro Yanase that imported cars should be sold as a luxury good, making imported vehicles more expensive than Japanese domestically produced vehicles, thereby allowing Japanese companies to sell their products that were priced lower than imported vehicles.

The genus Metasequoia was first described as a fossil from the Mesozoic Era by Shigeru Miki in 1941, but in 1943 a small stand of an unidentified tree was discovered in China in Modaoxi ( presently, Moudao, Lichuan County, Hubei ) by Zhan Wang ; due to World War II, these were not studied further until 1946 and only finally described as a new living species, M. glyptostroboides, in 1948 by Wan Chun Cheng and Hu Hsen Hsu.

Shigeru Izumiya ( 泉谷しげる Izumiya Shigeru, born May 11, 1948 in Aomori, raised in Meguro, Tokyo -) is a Japanese poet, folk singer, actor, tarento.

* 1948 – Kan ' ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian ( b. 1873 )

* 1873 – Kanichi Asakawa, Japanese historian ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Jirō Akagawa, Japanese novelist

* 1948 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler ( the 54th Yokozuna ) and professional wrestler

* 1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor

* 1948 – Teruzane Utada, Japanese record producer and manager

* 1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.

* 1948 – Takashi Kawamura, Japanese politician

* 1948 – Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler

* December 20 – Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian ( d. 1948 )

* Japanese — Osamu Shimizu: Moonlight and Pierrot Suite ( 1948 / 49 ; male chorus ; text by Horiguchi Daigaku ).

* Hiro Yamagata ( artist ) ( born 1948 ), Japanese painter / artist

( 22 September 1878 – 20 October 1967 ) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954.

was a Japanese politician and the 46th Prime Minister from 24 May 1947 to 10 March 1948.

was a Japanese politician who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Japan from 10 March to 15 October 1948.

Although the association was formally organized on September 18, 1948, political movements among Japanese college students can be traced back to much earlier times.

* June 19-Osamu Dazai, Japanese author ( died 1948 )

Another Salome ballet was composed by the Japanese composer Akira Ifukube in 1948.

Prior to the 1943 Quebec Conference, a joint British-American planning team produced a plan (" Appreciation and Plan for the Defeat of Japan ") which did not call for an invasion of the Japanese home islands until 1947 – 1948.

According to testimony presented at the Tokyo War Crimes trials in 1948, the revenue from the narcotization policy in China, including Manchukuo, was estimated in 20 million to 30 million yen per year, while another authority stated that the annual revenue was estimated by the Japanese military at US $ 300 million a year.

* Adachi Kenzō ( 謙蔵, 1864 – 1948 ), Japanese politician