* 1948 – Perry King, American actor

* 1861 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria ( d. 1948 )

The Jericho Conference, organized by King Abdullah and attended by over 2, 000 Palestinian delegates in 1948 proclaimed " His Majesty Abdullah as King of all Palestine " and called for " the unification of Palestine and Transjordan as a step toward full Arab unity.

Marge Devine Duffy, a secretary in King Features public relations department, had been helping Russell handle correspondence to the NCS, and in 1948, she was installed as the official NCS secretary and later given the title Scribe of the Society.

* 1879 – King Baggot, American actor ( d. 1948 )

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the 10th Prime Minister of Canada ( 1921 – 1926 ; 1926 – 1930 ; 1935 – 1948 )

Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).

William Lyon Mackenzie King greeting Barbara Ann Scott, who won a gold medal in figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, at Ottawa

On January 20, 1948, King called on the Liberal Party to hold its first national convention since 1919 to choose a leader.

* Stacey, C. P. Canada and the Age of Conflict: Volume 2: 1921 – 1948 ; the Mackenzie King Era, University of Toronto Press 1981, ISBN 0-08-202397-5.

The inaugural edition of Playfair Cricket Annual in 1948 coincided with the centenary of Grace's birth and carried a tribute which spoke of Grace as " King in his own domain " and his " Olympian personality ".

* February 26 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria ( d. 1948 )

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

* March 18 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga ( b. 1948 )

In May 1948, after the end of the British mandate and army withdrawal, King Farouk sent the Egyptian army into Palestine, with Nasser serving in the 6th Infantry Battalion.

In response, Thai authors Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote their own account in 1948 and sent it to American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his biography Mongkut, the King of Siam ( 1961 ).

The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ( uncredited ) and Beirne Lay, Jr. from the 1948 novel 12 O ' Clock High, also by Bartlett and Lay.

Marilyn Monroe was named the festival's Artichoke Queen in February 1948 and William Hung was named the Artichoke King in 2006.

On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname " The Donut King " while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States during the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1948, Hachiro Kasuga won King Records ' first talent contest.

Her recording of " Nature Boy " from April 8, 1948, became a hit around the same time as the release of the famous Nat King Cole recording of the same song.

However, it did not emerge as a formidable force until 1991, when the elderly LY members elected from the mainland provinces in 1948 retired.

The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.

Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor ; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948.

She retired from Purdue in 1948.

* Raymond Chester ( born 1948 ), retired American football tight end

* Bob Cook ( born January 6, 1948 in Sudbury, Ontario ) is a retired ice hockey right winger.

Douglas retired in 1948 and became chairman of BEA in 1949 a post he retained until 1964.

* Charles " Chuck " Yeager ( b. 1923 ) — U. S. Air Force test pilot and retired brigadier general, most notable as the first man to break the sound barrier ( 1948 )

* Sam Lacey ( retired NBA basketball player, 1948 – present )

After the war, Schmeling mounted a comeback, but retired permanently in 1948.

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

Casey hoped to become Chief of Engineers when Lieutenant General Raymond A. Wheeler retired in 1948, but President Harry S. Truman passed him over in favor of the Missouri River Division Engineer, Major General Lewis A.

His last appointment, in 1947, was as Flag Officer commanding the 5th Cruiser Squadron before he retired in 1948.

O ' Connor retired in 1948 at the age of fifty-eight.

Spruance was President of the Naval War College from February 1946 until he retired from the Navy in July 1948.

* John Connolly ( hurler ) ( born 1948 ), retired Irish hurler

Jakob Gijsbert " Jaap " de Hoop Scheffer (; born April 3, 1948 ) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

In 1948 Russell retired from full time music and opened a notions shop, with irregular band gigs and teaching music on the side.

Spaatz retired from the military at the rank of general on June 30, 1948 and worked for Newsweek magazine as military affairs editor until 1961.

At the end of his two year appointment at the Imperial Defence College Slim retired as ADC and from the army on 11 May 1948.

Like Governors-General appointed after 1948, State Presidents were retired National Party ministers, and consequently white, Afrikaner, and male.

George William Lewis ( March 10, 1882 – July 12, 1948 ) was the Director of Aeronautical Research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) until he retired in 1947.

Carmen Mary Lawrence ( born 2 March 1948 ) is a retired Australian politician ; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.