In the year 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi (Jan 30), the Soviet Union begins to jam the Voice of America broadcasts (Feb 1), the Hells Angels is founded in California (Mar 17), the scientific theory on the Big Bang is published (Apr 1), ABC begins its broadcasting (Apr 19), Israel declares itself independent (May 14), the Berlin Blockade begins (Jun 24) and two days later the Western allies answer with the Berlin airlift that lasts for 15 months (Jun 26), the southern half of Korea is established as South Korea (Aug 15), R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space (Oct 10), the UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Dec 10) - and all these fine people were born:

1948-0101 Dick Quax* New Zealand runner/politician - Alkmaar, Netherlands (2018/70) 1948-0102 Veijo Votkin* wholesale entrepreneur - Iisalmi, Finland (2021/73) 1948-0103 Chris Cramer* journalist/executive - Portsmouth, England (2021/73) 1948-0110 Remu Aaltonen* singer - Helsinki, Finland 1948-0111 Hiroshi Wajima* 輪島大士 sumo wrestler/pro wrestler - Ishikawa, Japan (2018/70) 1948-0112 Brendan Foster* long-distance runner/OB/commentator/road race organiser - Hebburn, South Tyneside, England 1948-0113 Malcolm Storry* actor - Hull, England 1948-0114 Valeri Kharlamov* hockey player/OG - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (1981/33) 1948-0114 Carl Weathers* Am. football player/actor - New Orleans, LA USA (2024/76) 1948-0115 1948-0116 John Carpenter* film director/producer - Carthage, NY USA 1948-0116 Cliff Thorburn* snooker player - Victoria, BC Canada 1948-0116 Jutta Wanke* swimmer - Potsdam, Allied-occupied Germany 1948-0123 Anita Pointer* singer-songwriter/a founding member of the Pointer Sisters - Oakland, CA USA (2022/74) 1948-0126 Sven-Åke Lundbäck* cross-country skier/OG (Vasaloppet) - Töre, Sweden 1948-0127 Mikhail Baryshnikov* dancer - Riga, Latvia, Soviet Union 1948-0127 Johnny Melville* comedian/ mime/clown - Leith, Scotland 1948-0128 Ilkka Kanerva* politician - Uusikaupunki, Finland (2022/74) 1948-0131 1948-0201 1948-0203 Henning Mankell* crime writer/dramatist/ philanthropist - Stockholm, Sweden (2015/67) 1948-0204 Alice Cooper* singer/songwriter/actor - Detroit, MI USA 1948-0205 Sven-Göran Eriksson* football manager - Sunne, Sweden (2024/76) 1948-0205 Christopher Guest* screenwriter/director - NewYork, NY USA 1948-0205 Barbara Hershey* actress - Hollywood, CA USA 1948-0205 Tom Wilkinson* actor - Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 1948-0209 László Schell* hockey official - Budapest, Second Hungarian Republic 1948-0214 Raymond Teller* magician (Penn&Teller) - USA 1948-0216 Eckhart Tolle* spiritual teacher/author (The Power of Now) - Lünen, West Germany 1948-0217 Anna-Kaisa Hermunen* (b Hänninen) television host - Laukaa, Finland (2019/71) 1948-0224 Walter Smith* football player/manager - Lanark, Scotland (2021/73) 1948-0226 Tarmo Salmela* poet - Tampere, Finland (2012/64) 1948-0228 Brian Kerr* Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore/ barrister/judge - Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland (2020/72) 1948-0301 Gopanarayan Das* lawyer/ politician/part-time journalist - India (2022/74) 1948-0301 Ricardo Kanji* recorder player/flutist/conductor - São Paulo, Brazil (2025/76) 1948-0302 1948-0303 Steve Wilhite* computer scientist - West Chester Township, OH USA (2022/74) 1948-0304 Jean O’Leary* gay rights activist/co-founder of the National Coming Out Day - Kingston, NY USA (2005/57) 1948-0304 Shakin' Stevens* (b Michael Barratt) singer/songwriter - Cardiff, Wales 1948-0305 Elaine Paige* singer - Barnet, Hertfordshire, England 1948-0307 Stephen G. Michaud* journalist/writer - Burlington, VT USA 1948-0314 Billy Crystal* stand-up comedian/actor/producer - Long Beach, Long Island, NY USA 1948-0317 William Gibson* speculative fiction writer/essayist - Conway, SC USA 1948-0320 Bobby Orr* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/player agent - Parry Sound, ON Canada 1948-0322 Andrew Lloyd Webber* composer - Kensington, London, England 1948-0325 Bonnie Bedelia* actress - New York, NY USA 1948-0325 Lynn Faulds Wood* journalist/ television presenter - Glasgow, Scotland (2020/72) 1948-0327 Jimi Heselden* entrepreneur/owner of Segway - Halton Moor, Leeds, England (2010/62) 1948-0328 Veli-Pekka Ketola* hockey player - Pori, Finland 1948-0329 1948-0330 Eddie Jordan* racing driver/motorsport executive/broadcaster - Dublin, Ireland (2025/76) 1948-0331 Al Gore* politician environmentalist - Washington D.C. USA 1948-0331 Rhea Perlman* actress - Coney Island, NY USA 1948-0401 1948-0404 Richard Parsons* businessman - Brooklyn, NY USA (2024/76) 1948-0404 Dan Simmons* science fiction and horror writer - Peoria, IL USA 1948-0405 1948-0406 1948-0408 Ada Bakker* tennis player - Netherlands 1948-0408 Linda Calvey* (b Welford) armed robber/convicted of murder/author - Ilford, Essex, England 1948-0410 1948-0414 Berry Berenson* photographer/actress/ wife of Anthony Perkins/Sep 11 victim - New York City, NY USA (2001/53) 1948-0415 1948-0417 Pekka Vasala* athlete (1500m/OG) - Riihimäki, Finland 1948-0419 Maye Musk* model/ dietist/mother of Elon Musk - Regina, SK Canada 1948-0421 Gino Strada* war surgeon/peace activist/founder of Emergency - Sesto San Giovanni, Italy (2021/73) 1948-0425 Hugo Torres Jiménez* Sandinista guerilla leader/general in the Nicaraguan Armed Forces - Somoto, Nigaragua (2022/73) 1948-0426 Alan Haworth* politician - Blackburn, England (2023/75) 1948-0427 Frank Abagnale* con artist/security consultant - Bronxville, NY USA 1948-0427 Si Robertson* duck call maker/television personality - Vivian, LA USA 1948-0428 Marcia Strassman* actress/ singer - New York City, NY USA (2014/66) 1948-0430 Alexander Onassis* businessman/son of Aristotle Onassis - New York City, NY USA (1973/24) 1948-0501 1948-0503 S. Ramesan Nair* lyricist/poet - Kumarapuram, Tamil Nadu, India (2021/73) 1948-0505 Mats Bergman* actor /son of Ingmar Bergman/half-brother of Linn Ullmann - Gothenburg, Sweden 1948-0509 Kenneth Gärdestad* songwriter/lyricist/architect - Sollentuna, Sweden (2018/69) 1948-0510 Meg Foster* actress - Reading, PA USA 1948-0515 Brian Eno* composer - Melton, Suffolk, England 1948-0517 Roy Torrens* cricketer/coach/ manager - Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2021/72) 1948-0519 Chris Chittell* actor (Emmerdale) - Aldershot, Hampshire, England 1948-0519 Grace Jones* singer/actress - Spanish Town, St. Catherine, Jamaica 1948-0526 Stevie Nicks* singer (Fleetwood Mac) - Phoenix, AZ USA 1948-0527 Sally Bedell Smith* journalist/ biographer (the British royal family) - Bryn Mawr, PA USA 1948-0528 1948-0529 Nick Mancuso* actor - Mammola, Calabria, Italy 1948-0531 Svetlana Alexievich* investigative journalist/writer/N - Stanislav, Ukraine, Soviet Union 1948-0531 John Bonham* drummer/songwriter (Led Zeppelin) - Redditch, Worchestershire, England (1980/32) 1948-0601 Powers Booth* actor - Snyder, TX USA (2017/68) 1948-0601 Natalya Marchenkova* animator/animation director  - Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union 1948-0602 Pentti Arajärvi* lawyer/politician - Helsinki, Finland 1948-0606 Jürgen Marcus* (b Beumer) singer - Herne, West Germany (2018/69) 1948-0609 Tim Sullivan* science fiction novelist/actor/film director - Bangor, ME USA 1948-0613 Joe Roth* film executive/producer/director - New York City, NY USA 1948-0617 Alpo Suhonen* hockey player/coach - Valkeakoski, Finland 1948-0619 Lea Laven* singer - Haukipudas, Finland 1948-0619 Phylicia Rashad* actress - Houston, TX USA 1948-0619 Erik Schinegger* (b Erika Schinegger) intersex downhill skier/women’s WC - Agsdorf, Austria 1948-0622 Maria Melin* - Kurikka, Finland (2013/65) 1948-0628 Kathy Bates* actress - Memphis, TN USA 1948-0630 Wolf Erlbruch* illustrator and writer of children’s books - Wuppertal, West Germany (2022/74) 1948-0630 Oliver Frey* illustator/ active in England - Zürich, Switzerland (2022/74) 1948-0701 1948-0702 Saul Rubinek* Canadian actor/playwright/director - Föhrenwald, Allied-occupied Germany 1948-0703 Tarmo Koivisto* cartoonist/comics writer/graphic artist - Orivesi, Finland 1948-0704 Tommy Körberg* singer/actor - Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden 1948-0704 Jeremy Spencer* musician (Fleetwood Mac) - Hartlepool, County Durham, England 1948-0706 Brad Park* hockey player (NHL 100) - Toronto, ON Canada 1948-0712 Richard Simmons* fitness instructor/actor - New Orleans, LA USA (2024/76) 1948-0713 Daphne Maxwell Reid* model/ actress/designer - New York City, NY USA 1948-0716 Rubén Blades* actor - Panama City, Panama 1948-0720 1948-0721 Art Hindle* actor/ director - Halifax, NS Canada 1948-0722 Neil Hardwick* theater and television director/writer - Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England 1948-0730 Jean Reno* (b Juan Moreno y Herrera–Jiménez) French actor/w Spanish parents - Casablanca, Morocco 1948-0730 Carel Struycken* actor (Addams Family) - The Hague, Netherlands 1948-0731 1948-0801 1948-0807 James P. Allison* immunologist/N - Alice, TX USA 1948-0809 Matti Liimatainen* long-distance runner/massager - Vesanto, Finland 1948-0811 Jan Palach* student of history and political economy who set himself on fire in protest of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia - Prague, Czechslovakia (1969/20) 1948-0814 Joseph Marcell* English actor/comedian/to England at age 9 - Castries, Saint Lucia 1948-0814 Lou Wagner* actor - San Jose, CA USA 1948-0815 1948-0819 Jim Carter* actor - Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 1948-0820 Robert Plant* singer/songwriter/ musician (Led Zeppelin) - West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England 1948-0824 Jean-Michel Jarre* composer/ performer/ producer - Lyon, France 1948-0824 Sauli Niinistö* politician/12thP - Salo, Finland 1948-0826 Robert Trump* real estate developer/brother of Donald Trump - New York City, NY USA (2020/72) 1948-0831 1948-0901 James Rebhorn* actor - Philadelphia, PA USA (2014/65) 1948-0904 Michael Berryman* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 1948-0907 Timo Nummelin* hockey player - Turku, Finland 1948-0909 Pamela Des Barres* musician/writer - Reseda, CA USA 1948-0910 1948-0917 John Ritter* actor - Burbank, CA USA (2003/54) 1948-0918 Jean-Louis Pichon* stage director/opera manager/author - Saint-Étienne, France (2025/76) 1948-0919 Jeremy Irons* actor - Cowes, Isle of Wright, England 1948-0920 George R. R. Martin* novelist/ screenwriter/television producer - Bayonne, NJ USA 1948-0922 Mark Phillips* equestrian(OG)/ex-husband of Princess Anne - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England 1948-0924 Gordon Clapp* actor - North Conway, NH USA 1948-0926 Olivia Newton-John* British-Australian singer/actress/activist - Cambridge, England (2022/73) 1948-0929 Bridget Tan* migrant workers' rights advocate/founder of the HOME - Singapore (2022/73) 1948-0929 Folke West* (b Westerholm) reporter/television producer/tour leader- Helsinki, Finland 1948-0930 1948-1001 1948-1002 Leslie Frankenheimer* (b McCarthy) film and television set decorator - Los Angeles, CA USA (2013/64) 1948-1004 Heikki Riihiranta* hockey player/ manager - Helsinki, Finland 1948-1010 Simon Lindley* organist/ choirmaster/composer - London, England (2025/76) 1948-1011 Sharon Johansen* Norwegian-American model/actress/to U.S. at age 1 - Norway 1948-1014 Marcia Barrett* Jamaican-British singer (Boney M.) - Saint Catherine Parish, British Jamaica 1948-1016 André Leon Talley* stylist/ creative director/fashion journalist (Vogue) - Washington D.C. USA (2022/73) 1948-1017 Margot Kidder* actress/ activist - Yellowknife, Northwest territories, Canada (2018/69) 1948-1020 1948-1022 Lynette Fromme* would-be-assassin - Santa Monica, CA USA 1948-1023 Derek Thompson* actor - Belfast, Northern Ireland 1948-1031 1948-1101 1948-1109 Bille August* film director - Brede, Denmark 1948-1110 1948-1111 Vincent Schiavelli* actor/food writer - Brooklyn, NY USA (2005/57) 1948-1114 Charles III* King of the United Kingdom - Buckingham Palace, London, England 1948-1114 Kristina Lugn* poet/ dramatist - Tierp, Sweden (2020/71) 1948-1120 Barbara Hendricks* operatic soprano/ concert singer - Stephens, AR USA 1948-1122 Adrian Shooter* transport executive - London, England (2022/74) 1948-1126 Claes Elfsberg* television journalist/news anchor - Stockholm, Sweden 1948-1129 Yoichi Masuzoe* 舛添 要 television commentator /politician/ governor - Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan 1948-1130 1949-1201 1948-1203 Rick Cua* singer/songwriter/ordained minister - Syracuse, NY USA 1948-1203 Abdul Hamid* voice actor/puppeteer - Jakarta, Indonesia (2022/74) 1948-1203 Ozzy Osbourne* singer/songwriter - Birmingham, England 1948-1204 Juhan af Grann* ufologist/film director - Kuopio, Finland (2023/78) 1948-1204 Mikael Rickfors* singer/guitarist - Stockholm, Sweden 1948-1205 1948-1206 Keke Rosberg* Finnish racing driver/WC - Solna, Stockholm, Sweden 1948-1206 Yoshihide Suga* 菅 義偉 politician/PM - Japan 1948-1206 JoBeth Williams* actress/television director - Houston, TX  USA 1948-1207 Tony Thomas* television producer - Hollywood, CA USA 1948-1210 Muhammad Zaidan* founder of PLF - Yarmouk Camp, Damascus, Syria (2004/55) 1948-1213 Ted Nugent* singer-songwriter/political activist - Redford, MI USA 1948-1214 Enver Baig* Pakistani politician - (2023/74) 1948-1218 Edmund Kemper* serial killer known as the “Co-ed Killer” - Burbank, CA USA 1948-1220 1948-1221 Samuel L. Jackson* actor - Washington D.C.  USA 1948-1222 Noel Edmonds* radio DJ/television presenter/businessman - Ilford, Essex, England 1948-1226 Kari Salmelainen*  TV-show host - Kotka, Finland 1948-1227 Martin Birch* music producer/sound engineer - Woking, Surrey, England (2020/71) 1948-1227 Gérard Depardieu* actor - Châtearoux, Indre, France 1948-1227 Tovah Feldshuh* actress/ singer/playwright - Manhattan, NY USA 1948-1227 Edsel Ford II* car manufacturer - Detroit, MI USA 1948-1228 Mary Weiss* singer (The Shangri-Las) - Queens, NY USA (2024/75) 1948-1229 Peter Robinson* politician/First Minister of Northern Ireland - Belfast, Northern Ireland 1948-1230 **Marcia Krame**r* television news reporter/ political correspondent - USA 1948-1231 René Robert* hockey player - Trois-Rivières, QC Canada (2021/72) 1948-1231 Donna Summer* singer/songwriter/ painter - Boston, MA USA (2012/63) 1948-0 1948-0 1948-0 Updated 2025-0324 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here