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Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1948
January
December
December 10 - United Nations General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
December 26 - Last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
December 28 - Member of Muslim Brotherhood assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi.
December 30 - The play Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances.
December 31 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive Egyptians from Negev.
Undated
Brandeis University is founded.
Casimir effect discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
Fresh Kills, world's largest landfill, opens in Staten Island, New York.
Literature In the spring, playwright Arthur Miller writes "Death of a Salesman." He completes Act I in less than a day. Act II and the Requiem are completed in the next six weeks. He writes his new play in a small, freshly built studio that he constructed himself on his property in Roxbury, CT.
The law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is founded.
Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.
Oakridge Transit Centre opened in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Slovak city Gúta was renamed to Kolárovo.
Tunnel of Vielha is opened in Val d'Aran, Spanish Pyrenees.
The Caspian Tiger became extinct in Kazakhstan by this date.
Ongoing
First Indochina War
Births
January-February
January 2
January 5
January 7
January 10
January 12
January 14
January 15
January 16
January 17 - Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
January 19 - Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
January 27 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer
January 28 - Charles Taylor, Liberian president
January 29 - Marc Singer, Canadian actor
January 31 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February 1
February 3 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
February 4
- Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier), American hard rock singer and musician
- Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist
February 5
February 6 - Jack Conway, musician, composer, arranger, guitarist
February 7 - Tony Iommi, English guitarist (Black Sabbath)
February 12 - Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
February 14
February 17 - José José, Mexican singer and actor
February 24
February 25 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
February 28
March-April
March 1 - Burning Spear, Jamaican singer and musician
March 2
March 4
Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
March 9 - Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
March 11 - Dominique Sanda, French actress
March 12 - James Taylor, American musician
March 15 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
March 17 - William Gibson, American writer
March 20
March 22
March 26 - Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)
March 28 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
March 31
April 1 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
April 4 - Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor
April 12 - Jeremy Beadle, TV presenter
April 13 - Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
April 15 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
April 27 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
April 29 - Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)
May-June
May 6 - Richard Bryant, African American pastor
May 8
May 11 - Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
May 12
May 14 - Bob Woolmer, British cricket coach
May 15 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
May 19 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
May 21 - Leo Sayer, English musician
May 26 - Stevie Nicks, American singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
May 27 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
May 29 - Michael Berkeley, British composer
May 31 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June 2 - Jerry Mathers, American actor
June 13 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
June 15 - Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter
June 17 - Dave Concepcion, Venezuelan baseball player
June 19
June 20 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
June 21
June 22 - Todd Rundgren, American singer and record producer
June 29 - Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
June 30 - Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways company
July-August
July 3 - Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
July 6 - Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet and journalist
July 8 - Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 12 - Richard Simmons, American television personality and fitness expert
July 15 - Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
July 16 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
July 18 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20 - Muse Watson, American actor
July 21
July 22
July 23 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
July 25 - Steve Goodman, a Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter from Chicago, United States. (d. 1984)
July 27 - Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
July 28 - Sally Struthers, American actress
July 30 - Jean Reno, French actor
July 31 - Jonathan Dollimore, famous author and professor
August 2
August 3 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 13 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano
August 15
August 20 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
August 24 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
August 30 - Lewis Black, American comedian
September-October
September 1 - James Rebhorn, American actor
September 4 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
September 5 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
September 10
September 13 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (d. 2003)
September 17 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
September 19 - Nadezhda Tkachenko, former Soviet pentathlete
September 22 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
September 24
September 25 - Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch
September 26 - Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress
September 27 - Michele Dotrice, English actor
September 29
October 1 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (d. 2001)
October 2
October 6 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
October 7 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
October 8 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
October 9 - Jackson Browne, American musician
October 13
October 16 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
October 17 - George Wendt, American television actor
October 17 - Robert Jordan, American novelist
October 18 - Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
November-December
November 3 - Lulu (singer), Scottish singer
November 5 - William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 10 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
November 14 - Prince Charles of Edinburgh, now Prince of Wales
November 16 - Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
November 17 - Howard Dean, American politician
November 20
December 2 - T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
December 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer
December 6
December 7
December 10 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
December 14 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist
December 18 - Bill Nelson, (born William Nelson), British guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician
December 21
December 22
December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
December 28 - Dick Siegel, American songwriter
date unknown
Deaths
January - March
January 5 - Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
January 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
January 30
February 2 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, Russian film director (b. 1898)
February 23 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866)
March 4 - Antonin Artaud, playwright, actor and director (b. 1896)
March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914)
March 10 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
March 24 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious and political philosopher (b.1874)
March 31 - Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1885)
April - June
April 9
April 15 - Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines (b. 1892)
April 17 - Suzuki Kantaro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1867)
May 15 - Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
May 28 - Unity Mitford, British friend of Hitler (b. 1914)
June 25 - William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
July - September
July 2 - Baba Sawan Singh, Known as "The Great Master," was an Indian Saint (b. July 27 1858)
July 5 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
July 15 - John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
July 18 - May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (b. April 27 1869)
July 21 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (b. 1904)
July 23 - David Wark Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
July 31 - Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd, Franklin Roosevelt's lover (b. 1891)
August 12 - Harry Brearley, English inventor of stainless steel (b. 1871)
August 16 - Babe Ruth, baseball player (b. 1895)
August 27 - Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
September 2 - Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar and World War I spy (b. 1883)
September 5 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
September 11 - Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
September 30 - Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
October - December
October 1 - Phraya Manopakorn Nititada (b. 1884)
October 12- Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b.1885).
October 24 - Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
November 28 - D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873)
December 23 - Japanese war leaders (hanged):
December 31 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer (b. 1885)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Chemistry - Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
Medicine - Paul Hermann Müller
Literature - T. S. Eliot
Peace - not awarded
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