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1948
1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
March-April
May
June
July-October
November-December
Undated
Unknown date
Year in topic
Births
January-February
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January 2 - Mary Archer
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January 7 - Kenny Loggins, singer
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January 10 - Donald Fagen, keyboardist
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January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
- January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
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January 15 - Ronnie VanZant, musician (d. 1977)
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January 16 - John Carpenter, director
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January 17 - Davíđ Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
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January 27 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer
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January 30 - James Hoerig , Architect
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February 4 - Alice Cooper, musician
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February 5 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- February 5 - Barbara Hershey, actress
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February 11 - Sue Bernard , Playboy playmate for December 1966
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February 14 - Teller, magician (Penn and Teller)
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February 24 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
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February 28 - Bernadette Peters, actress, singer
- February 28 - Mike Figgis, director, writer, composer
- February 28 - Mercedes Ruehl, actress
March-April
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March 1 - Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician
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March 2 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
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March 2 - R. T. Crowley, writer, pioneer of Electronic Data Interchange
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March 9 - Jeffrey Osborne , singer
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March 11 - Dominique Sanda , actress
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March 12 - James Taylor, musician
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March 17 - William Gibson, writer
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March 20 - John de Lancie, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager)
- March 20 - Bobby Orr, ice hockey player
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March 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
- March 22 - Wolf Blitzer, television journalist
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March 26 - Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith
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March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress (Hannah and Her Sisters, Law & Order)
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March 31 - Al Gore, former US Vice President
- March 31 - Rhea Perlman, actress
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April 1 - Jimmy Cliff, musician
May-July
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May 8 - Felicity Lott, English soprano
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May 12 - Steve Winwood, singer
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May 14 - Bob Woolmer, cricket coach
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May 15 - Brian Eno, musician, record producer
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May 18 - Kathleen (Kirchner) Achterberg , organist, music educator
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May 21 - Leo Sayer, musician
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May 26 - Stevie Nicks, singer & songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
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May 31 - John Bonham ("Bonzo"), drummer (d. 1980)
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June 2 - Todd Rundgren, singer and producer
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June 13 - Marc Flanagan , television writer and producer
- June 13 - Garnet Bailey, professional hockey player & scout
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June 13 - David Hallam Member of the European Parliament, author
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June 19 - Phylicia Rashad, actress
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June 21 - Lionel Rose, first aboriginal boxer to win a world title (in 1968)
- June 21 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy writer
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July 16 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
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July 21 - Ed Hinton, sportswriter
- July 21 - Cat Stevens, musician
- July 21 - Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
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July 25 - Peggy Fleming, figure skater
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July 28 - Sally Struthers, actress
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July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
August-December
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August 2 - Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and author
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August 3 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
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August 13 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano
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August 20 - Robert Plant, singer (Led Zeppelin)
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August 30 - Lewis Black, stand-up comedian
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September 4 - Samuel Hui, singer.
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September 5 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
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September 10 - Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer
- September 10 - Margaret Trudeau, former First Lady of Canada
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September 22 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
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September 24 - Heinz Chur, German composer
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September 29 - Bryant Gumbel, television broadcaster
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October 2 - Avery Brooks, American television actor
- October 2 - Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star (d. 2005)
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October 9 - Jackson Browne, musician
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October 13 - Ted Poe, American politician
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October 17 - George Wendt, American television actor
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October 29 - Roger Gascoigne , NZ Broadcaster
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November 1 - Jim Steinman, songwriter/producer
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November 10 - Vincent Schiavelli, actor
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November 14 - Charles, Prince of Wales
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November 16 - Mutt Lange, record producer
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November 20 - John R. Bolton, American neo-conservative.
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December 6 - JoBeth Williams, American actress
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December 21 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist
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December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
Deaths
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January 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
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January 30 - Mohandas Gandhi, leader of the Indian non-violent independence movement (assassinated)
- January 30 - Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane
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February 2 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
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February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director
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March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist
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March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- March 10 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
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March 31 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author
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April 9 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
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April 17 - Suzuki Kantaro, Japanese admiral and prime minister
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May 15 - Father Edward J. Flanagan , priest and founder of Boys Town
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May 28 - Unity Mitford, British friend of Hitler
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June 25 - William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
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July 5 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
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July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director
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August 12 - Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
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August 16 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer
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September 11 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
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October 24 - Franz Lehár, composer
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November 28 - D.D. Sheehan first independent Labour MP in Ireland
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December 23 - Doihara Kenji, Hirota Koki, Itagaki Seishiro, Kimura Heitaro , Matsui Iwane, Muto Akira , and Tojo Hideki, Japanese war leaders (hanged)
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December 31 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer (b. 1885)
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