Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
Baseball Player
1
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Civil Rights Leader
2
Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Inventor
3
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)
World Leader
4
Hideki Tojo (1884-1948)
Politician
5
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
6
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
7
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
8
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Painter
9
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
War Hero
10
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
11
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
12
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
13
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
Poet
14
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
15
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
16
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
17
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
18
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Playwright
19
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
Novelist
20
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
21
Leo White (1873-1948)
22
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
23
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
Director
24
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
25
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
26
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
27
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
Entrepreneur
28
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
29
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
30
Harry Greenwood (1881-1948)
31
Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948)
Race Car Driver
32
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
33
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
34
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
35
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
36
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
37
Prosper Montagne (1865-1948)
Chef
38
Gil Dobie (1879-1948)
Football Coach
39
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
40
Warren William (1894-1948)
41
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
42
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
43
Gregg Toland (1904-1948)
Cinematographer
44
Lewis Schwellenbach (1894-1948)
45
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
46
Herb Pennock (1894-1948)
47
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Anthropologist
48
Celebrities Born in 1948
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