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
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
6
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
7
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
8
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
9
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
Novelist
10
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
11
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Painter
12
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
13
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
Poet
14
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
Director
15
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
16
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
17
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
18
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
19
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
Playwright
20
Celebrities Born in 1948
Deaths by Year
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
21
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
Entrepreneur
22
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
23
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
War Hero
24
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
25
Warren William (1894-1948)
26
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
27
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
28
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
29
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
30
Arthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948)
Pilot
31
Sonnyboy Williamson I (1914-1948)
32
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
33
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
34
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
35
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
36
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
37
Henrik Lund (1875-1948)
38
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
39
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
40
Harry Greenwood (1881-1948)
41
Fred P Cone (1871-1948)
42
Vernon Dalhart (1883-1948)
Country Singer
43
Leo White (1873-1948)
44
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
45
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
46
Olev Siinmaa (1881-1948)
Architect
47
Lewis Schwellenbach (1894-1948)
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