* 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 ).

* 1948 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress ( d. 1991 )

* 1948 – Stevie Wright, English-born Australian musician and songwriter

* 1948 – Kim Beazley, Australian politician

* 1948 – Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.

However, even though the implementation of the Australian Citizenship Act in 1948 established the concept of an independent Australian citizenship, the idea of Australian-born persons being appointed governor of New South Wales was much earlier.

* 1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian politician

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO ( 18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980 ) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering ( in 1948 ) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder ( then known as manic depression ).

Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

* 1948 – Jeff Kennett, Australian former politician

* 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor

* Tim Pickup ( born 1948 ), Australian rugby league footballer

* 1948 – Max Walker, Australian cricketer

* 1948 – Christopher Skase, Australian businessman ( d. 2001 )

* 1948 – Garth Porter, Australian singer-songwriter and producer ( Sherbet )

Fry insisted that Grace would not have started the 1948 season with any notion of being beaten by that season's Australian touring team, for " he was sanguine " and would have put everything he could muster into the task of beating them with no acceptance of defeat " till after it happened ".

* August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck ; however, " The Invincibles " win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.

* April 27 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist ( d. 1948 )

Forensic science has been fostered by a number of national forensic science learned bodies including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1948 ; publishers of the Journal of Forensic Sciences ), the Canadian Society of Forensic Science ( founded 1953 ; publishers of the Journal of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science ), The British Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1960 ; publishers of Medicine, science and the law ( journal )), and the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1967 ; publishers of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences ).

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

Bradman retired in 1948 but was later knighted for services to cricket and given a state funeral upon his death in 2001.

The stadium also hosted international matches – both for England and in the 1948 Summer Olympics – and FA Cup semi-finals, as well as boxing, baseball and cricket matches.

The team's first series as an independent country was in 1948 against Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles ( a name given to the Australia national cricket team of that time ).

The Australian cricket team in England in 1948 | Invincibles took all five awards in 1949 ; Don Tallon was their wicket-keeper.

In 1948, he travelled to South Africa to cover the England cricket team's tour for the BBC, and openly voiced his distaste for the country's apartheid policy., When asked to mark his race on an immigration form-whether " white, Indian, coloured, black ", Arlott wrote " human ".

The acquisition of New Zealand speedster Thomas Pritchard gave Hollies the necessary support and by 1948 they had one of the strongest attacks in county cricket.

By 1948, Jardine was more accepted in the cricket world.

Walcott was a member of the " three W's ", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926 ; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948.

In 1948 the MCC issued a reminder to batsman, advising them not to handle the ball for any reason at any point during a cricket match, but it is relatively common for batsmen to pick the ball up and return it to the fielding side.

Irby has a cricket club situated on Mill Hill Road, which was established in 1948 and promoted to the Cheshire County League in 2001.

Famous Leysian sportsmen include Neil White ( Olympic hockey in 1948 ); Freddie Brown ( Captain of England's cricket team ); Geoff Windsor-Lewis ( Wales Rugby, 1960 ) and Paul Svehlik ( England and Great Britain Hockey ).

This prompted him to leave New South Wales and come to Lancashire, England, playing league cricket there for Colne Cricket Club for five years from 1948, becoming the only player to score 1000 runs in each of five consecutive seasons in the league's history.

While playing for Sunderland, Shackleton played cricket for Northumberland in the 1948 Minor Counties Championship.

From April 1948 he commuted to London by railway for his training, having yet to see a first class cricket match.

Carr did not play first-class cricket in 1947, as he was serving in Burma, but left the army in April 1948 and went to Oxford University.

Kenneth " Ken " Cranston ( 20 October 1917 – 8 January 2007 ) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and eight times for England, in 1947 and 1948.

Throughout his cricket career, which lasted from 1948 until the 1977 season, Close was one of the most charismatic and well-known cricketers.

He delivered a short judgment on 20 December 1948, dismissing each ground of the claimant's case, holding that there was no evidence of any injury in the previous 38 years, so there was no negligence ; Rylands v Fletcher was not applicable ; and a single act of hitting a cricket ball onto a road was too isolated a happening to amount to a nuisance.

Robert Andrew Woolmer ( 14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007 ) was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator.

Robert Neil Harvey MBE ( born 8 October 1928 ) is a former Australian cricketer who represented the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963, playing in 79 Test matches.

One of six cricketing brothers, four of whom represented Victoria, Harvey followed his elder brother Merv into Test cricket and made his debut in January 1948, aged 19 and three months.