* 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 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

* 1948 – Tony Gatlif, French director

Gielgud also directed, produced and acted in the 1948 Broadway production whose cast won a special Tony Award for " Outstanding Foreign Company ".

A special Tony was presented to her in 1948 for " spreading theatre to the rest of the country while the originals perform in New York.

Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics ' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1948 ) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ).

The play Anne of the Thousand Days, the film's basis, was first enacted on Broadway in the Shubert Theatre on 8 December 1948 ; staged by H. C. Potter, with Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn respectively, running 288 performances ; Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance.

He won a 1948 Tony Award for the part.

Sir Robert Tony Watson CMG ( born March 21, 1948 ) is a British scientist who has worked on atmospheric science issues including ozone depletion, global warming and paleoclimatology since the 1980s.

His later career included Broadway and television work ; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.

She won the Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katherine Cornell ( who won for the female lead in Antony and Cleopatra ) and Judith Anderson ( for the latter's portrayal of Medea ).

The book was one of the inspirations for filmmaker Tony Richardson's 1965 film The Loved One, which was based on Evelyn Waugh's short satirical 1948 novel of the same name, tellingly subtitled " An Anglo-American Tragedy ".

* Tony Hillerman-Award winning author of the Navajo Mysteries, Borger News-Herald Reporter ( 1948 )

* Ken James ( Australian actor ) ( born 1948 ), played Tony Wild in The Box and later played Mike O ' Brien in Sons and Daughters

He won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Newcomer in the Broadway production of Command Decision ( 1948 ).

Texaco Star Theaters next hosts included James Melton ( 1944 – 1947 ), Tony Martin ( 1947 – 1948 ), Gordon MacRae ( 1948 ), Jack Carter ( 1948 ), and Milton Berle ( 1948 – 1949 ).

* Mary Martin received a Special Tony Award in 1948 for " Spreading Theatre to the Country While the Originals Perform in New York " ( 1947-48 US Tour )

In 1948, Paul " Pinkie " George, a promoter from the Midwest, founded the original version of the National Wrestling Alliance with the backing of five other promoters ( Al Haft, Tony Strecher, Harry Light, Orville Brown, and Sam Muchnick ).

: Tony left dramatic radio in 1948, " mainly because I was putting in a lot of hours working with J. Francis McComas in creating what soon became The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

* Tony Wright ( Cannock Chase MP ) ( born 1948 ), former British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase

* Tony Martin ( politician ) ( born 1948 ), Canadian politician

She continued to act on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award in 1948 for her performance in the title role of Medea.