* 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 House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist while in federal service.

In his last cover story for Time magazine ( March 1948 ), Whittaker Chambers said of Niebuhr:

Tom Whittaker ( born 1948 in York ) was the first disabled person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

When Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in August 1948 and said that Hiss was a Communist, Nixon already knew about the charge from his conversations with Cronin.

* Tom Whittaker ( mountaineer ) ( born 1948 ), disabled mountaineer, the first disabled person to climb Mount Everest

* Whittaker Chambers Testimony before HUAC 3 August 1948

On August 3, 1948, in testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ), Whittaker Chambers named Witt as a member of the " Ware Group.

Jimmy Cliff, OM ( born James Chambers on 1 April 1948 ) is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor.

By early 1948, Chambers had become one of the best known writer-editors at Time.

After the conclusion of World War II, the novel was published in three parts: Book One in 1946, Book Two in 1947, and Book Three in 1948 respectively ( Chambers, The Secret Window, 71 .).

( LePan had married, in 1948 to the former Sarah Chambers ; the two remained together until 1971 and had two children, but the marriage was a difficult one, not least of all over issues relating to sexual orientation.

* Robert Chambers ( 1944 ), Track & Field, 2nd fastest all-time high school 880 as of that date ; 3rd NCAA 880 for USC 1948 ; 6th London Olympics 880 1948.

* The Hawk of Powder River ( 1948 ) .... Vivian Chambers aka The Hawk

In 1948, Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a communist spy.

The book presents testimonies refuting the claim that a force of the Irgun underground committed a massacre at the Arab village of Deir Yassin in the 1948 war, and accuses leaders of the Israeli community of promoting the massacre story to discredit their political opponents.

* Abdelkader et l ' indépendance algérienne, Alger, En Nahda, 1948, 47 pages.

Donald Hiss ( December 15, 1906-May 18, 1999 ) was the younger brother of Alger Hiss, who in 1948 was accused of -- but not charged with -- spying for the Soviet Union, and who in 1950 was controversially convicted of perjury before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

In 1948, Gorsky authored the Gorsky memo, an internal Soviet secret police document in which he listed 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to be identified to American authorities by Bentley after her defection, including Alger Hiss, Harry White and Lauchlin Currie.

Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

Hiss, one of Reed and Frankfurter's protégés, was accused of espionage in August 1948.