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1948 is a year in the 20th century. It was a leap year.
- January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
- January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
- January 16 - John Carpenter, director
- January 24 - Elliot Abrams, deputy national security adviser
- February 5 - Barbara Hershey, actress
- February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress
- March 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
- May 13 - Leon Coetzee, loverboy and attorney
- June 22 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, producer
- July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
- September 29 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
- October 9 - Jackson Browne, songwriter
- October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
- November 28 - Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
- December 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, singer/songwriter
- December 10- Abu Abbas, terrorist
- December 27 - Gerard Depardieu, French actor
- 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 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist
- 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 9 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
- 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
- June 25 - William C. Lee, Maj, General United States Army (b. 1895)
- July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director
- August 12 - Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
- August 16 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer
- September 11 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
- October 24 - Franz Lehár, composer
- November 28 - D.D. Sheehan first independent Labour MP. in Ireland
- 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 (b. 1885)
[change] Films Released
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Scott of the Antartic
- Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
- Catalina - W. Somerset Maugham
- Concluding - Henry Green
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- The Foundling – Georgette Heyer
- The Golden Warrior - Hope Muntz
- Guard of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- The Hearth and the Eagle - Anya Seton
- The House of Sleep - Anna Kavan
- Ides of March - Thornton Wilder
- John Aubrey and His Friends - Anthony Powell
- Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
- Last Of The Conquerors - William Gardner Smith
- The Living Is Easy - Dorothy West
- The Mask of Circe - C. L. Moore
- Melissa (novel) - Taylor Caldwell
- My Glorious Brothers - Howard Fast
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
- Parris Mitchell of King's Row - Henry Bellamann
- Raintree County - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
- Seraph On The Sewanee - Zora Neale Hurston
- Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose - Dr. Seuss
- The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pène du Bois
- The White Goddess - Robert Graves
- The World is Not Enough - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
- The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw
- "Buttons and Bows" - Dinah Shore
- "Confess" - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
- "Confess" - Patti Page (the first multi-tracked song)
- "Deck Of Cards" - Phil Harris
- "Don't Have To Tell Nobody" - Frankie Laine
- "Gloria" - The Mills Brothers
- "I Love You So Much (It Hurts Me)" - The Mills Brothers
- "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" - Frankie Laine
- "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" - Art Mooney
- "I'm My Own Grandpa" - Guy Lombardo & The Guy Lombardo Trio
- "Is It True What They Say About Dixie" - Al Jolson & The Mills Brothers
- "It's Magic" - Doris Day
- "Little White Lies" - Dick Haymes & The Four Hits And A Miss
- "Love Somebody" - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
- "Mañana" - Peggy Lee
- "Monday Again" - Frankie Laine
- "My Happiness" - The Pied Pipers
- "My Happiness" - Jon and Sondra Steele
- "Nature Boy" - Nat King Cole
- "Nature Boy" - Sarah Vaughan
- "On A Slow Boat To China" - Kay Kyser, Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood
- "Red River Valley" - Jo Stafford
- "Red Roses For A Blue Lady" - Vaughn Monroe
- "Rosetta" - Frankie Laine
- "So Tired" - Russ Morgan
- "Someday You'll Want Me To Want You" - Vaughn Monroe
- "The Things We Did Last Summer" - Georgia Gibbs
- "A Tree In the Meadow" - Margaret Whiting
- "Twelfth Street Rag" - Pee Wee Hunt
- "Underneath the Arches" - Andrews Sisters
- "What Could Be Sweeter" - Frankie Laine
- "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" - Georgia Gibbs
- "Woody Woodpecker" - Kay Kyser
- "You Call Everybody Darlin'" - Al Trace
- "You Can't Be True, Dear" - Ken Griffin