1948
1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
March-April
May
June-July
August-December
Undated
Unknown date
Year in topic
Births
January-February
- January 7 - Kenny Loggins, singer
- January 10 - Donald Fagen, keyboardist
- January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
- January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
- January 15 - Ronnie VanZant, musician (d. 1977)
- January 16 - John Carpenter, director
- January 17 - Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
- January 22 - George Foreman, boxer
- January 27 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer
- February 4 - Alice Cooper, musician
- February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- February 5 - Barbara Hershey, actress
- February 11 - Sue Bernard, Playboy playmate for December 1966
- February 14 - Teller, magician (Penn and Teller)
- February 24 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
- February 28 - Bernadette Peters, actress, singer
- February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer
- February 28 - Mercedes Ruehl, actress
March-May
- March 1 - Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician
- March 2 - R. T. Crowley, writer, pioneer of Electronic Data Interchange
- March 9 - Jeffrey Osborne, singer
- March 11 - Dominique Sanda, actress
- March 12 - James Taylor, musician
- March 17 - William Gibson, writer
- March 20 - John de Lancie, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager)
- March 20 - Bobby Orr, ice hockey player
- March 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
- March 22 - Wolf Blitzer, television journalist
- March 26 - Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith
- March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress (Hannah and Her Sisters, Law & Order)
- March 31 - Al Gore, US Vice President
- March 31 - Rhea Perlman, actress
- April 1 - Jimmy Cliff, musician
- May 12 - Steve Winwood, singer
- May 15 - Brian Eno, musician, record producer
- May 19 - Grace Jones, singer, actress
- May 21 - Leo Sayer, musician
- May 26 - Stevie Nicks, singer & songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
- May 31 - John Bonham ("Bonzo"), drummer (d. 1980)
June-September
- June 2 - Todd Rundgren, singer and producer
- June 13 - Marc Flanagan, television writer and producer
- June 13 - Garnet Bailey, professional hockey player & scout
- June 19 - Phylicia Rashad, actress
- June 21 - Lionel Rose, first aboriginal boxer to win a world title (in 1968)
- June 21 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy writer
- July 21 - Ed Hinton, sportswriter
- July 21 - Cat Stevens, musician
- July 21 - Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
- July 25 - Peggy Fleming, figure skater
- July 28 - Sally Struthers, actress
- July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
- August 2 - Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and author
- August 3 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
- August 20 - Robert Plant, singer (Led Zeppelin)
- August 30 - Lewis Black, stand-up comedian
- September 5 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
- September 10 - Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer
- September 10 - Margaret Trudeau, former First Lady of Canada
- September 22 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
- September 29 - Bryant Gumbel, television broadcaster
October-December
Deaths
- January 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
- January 30 - Mohandas Gandhi, Leader of Indian Non-Violent Independence movement (assassinated)
- January 30 - Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, co-inventor of the airplane
- February 2 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
- February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director
- March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- March 10 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
- March 31 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author
- April 17 - Suzuki Kantaro, Japanese admiral and prime minister
- May 15 - Father Edward J. Flanagan, priest, founder of Boys Town
- May 28 - Unity Mitford, British friend of Hitler
- August 16 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer
- July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director
- September 11 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
- October 24 - Franz Lehár, composer
- December 23 - Doihara Kenji, Hirota Koki, Itagaki Seishiro, Kimura Heitaro, Matsui Iwane, Muto Akira, and Tojo Hideki, Japanese war leaders (hanged)
- December 31 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer