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