* 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 ).

Mary Elizabeth " Tipper " Gore ( née Aitcheson ; born August 19, 1948 ) is an author, photographer, former second lady of the United States, and the estranged wife of Al Gore.

* 1948 – Al Gore, American politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate

* Gore Vidal in his 1948 novel The City and the Pillar: " The Cliveden-Churchill Set are too well entrenched and I shouldn't be in the least surprised if they created some sort of dictatorship that could never be thrown off without a revolution.

The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948.

Gore and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore had two children: daughter Nancy LaFon Gore ( born in 1938 and died of lung cancer in 1984 ) and a son Albert Gore Jr. in 1948.

* Al Gore ( born 1948 ); covered the Vietnam War.

Roy was born in Gore in 1948.

Residents in more recent times have included the hydrographer, Sir Edmund Irving ( 1910 – 1990 ), artists Spencer Gore ( 1878 – 1914 ) and Graham Sutherland ( 1903 – 1980 ), the author, Michael Gilbert ( 1912 – 2006 ), the psychic researcher, Harry Price ( 1881 – 1948 ), Hughie Green ( 1920 – 1997 ), the entertainer, Sir Roger de Grey ( 1918 – 1995 ), President of the Royal Academy, as well as Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun ; current residents include Sir Michael Gambon, as well as Donald Adamson, the author and historian, Dr John Physick CBE FSA and Major Sir Richard Gethin, Bt who lives at Sole Street.

Eru D. Gore was secretary-manager from 1936 till his death in 1948 when Stewart Bell Maclennan was appointed the first director.

In 1947 and 1948 the necessity of massive coordinated efforts to achieve economic recovery led to the formation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to supervise and coordinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall Plan.

* 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player

* 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Terry Adams, American pianist and composer ( NRBQ )

* 1948 – Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player

* 1948 – Sue Monk Kidd, American author

* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor

* 1948 – Rudy Ruettigerr, American football player

* 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.

* 1948 – Daniel Okrent, American writer and editor

* 1948 – Joan D. Vinge, American author

* 1948 – Vonda McIntyre, American author