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
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
6
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
7
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Novelist
8
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
9
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
10
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
11
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
Director
12
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
13
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
14
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
15
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
Poet
16
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
17
Leo White (1873-1948)
18
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
19
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
20
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
21
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
War Hero
22
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
23
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
24
Celebrities Born in 1948
Deaths by Year
Vernon Dalhart (1883-1948)
Country Singer
25
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
26
Adolf Behne (1885-1948)
Architect
27
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
28
Edgar de Wahl (1867-1948)
Teacher
29
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
30
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
31
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Playwright
32
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
Entrepreneur
33
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
34
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
35
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
36
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
37
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
38
Warren William (1894-1948)
39
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Painter
40
Harry Greenwood (1881-1948)
41
Lewis Schwellenbach (1894-1948)
42
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
43
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
44
Gil Dobie (1879-1948)
Football Coach
45
Prosper Montagne (1865-1948)
Chef
46
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
47
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
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