Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
Baseball Player
1
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Civil Rights Leader
2
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)
World Leader
3
Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Inventor
4
Hideki Tojo (1884-1948)
Politician
5
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Novelist
6
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
7
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
8
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
9
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
10
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
11
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
12
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
War Hero
13
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
14
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
15
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
16
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
17
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
18
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
Director
19
Prosper Montagne (1865-1948)
Chef
20
Harry Kent (1879-1948)
Soccer Player
21
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
Poet
22
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
23
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Playwright
24
Celebrities Born in 1948
Deaths by Year
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
25
Adolf Behne (1885-1948)
Architect
26
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
27
Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948)
Race Car Driver
28
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
29
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
Entrepreneur
30
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
31
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
32
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
33
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
34
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
35
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
36
Warren William (1894-1948)
37
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
38
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
39
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
40
Lewis Schwellenbach (1894-1948)
41
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Anthropologist
42
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
43
Gil Dobie (1879-1948)
Football Coach
44
Vernon Dalhart (1883-1948)
Country Singer
45
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Painter
46
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
47
Harry Greenwood (1881-1948)
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