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The Amazing Mr. X (1948) - Full Movie
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- Duration: 78:03
- Updated: 01 May 2013
Two years after her husband's death, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) thinks she hears her late husband (Richard Carlson) calling out of the surf on the beach one...
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Two years after her husband's death, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) thinks she hears her late husband (Richard Carlson) calling out of the surf on the beach one...
1948 Oldsmobile Car of Tomorrow
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- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 19 Apr 2013
This is a great little sales film peddling the Futuramic 1948 Oldsmobile. I cut it down to its best bits. Enjoy!
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This is a great little sales film peddling the Futuramic 1948 Oldsmobile. I cut it down to its best bits. Enjoy!
- published: 05 May 2008
- views: 53046
- author: Brian Johnson
Palestine before 1948
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 06 May 2013
The video contains pictures of different Palestinian cities during the 1920's and 1930's, before the creation of the state of israel by the zionists in 1948.
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The video contains pictures of different Palestinian cities during the 1920's and 1930's, before the creation of the state of israel by the zionists in 1948.
- published: 10 Dec 2007
- views: 254639
- author: Goliath Philistines
حرب النكبة فلسطين 1948 War
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- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 06 May 2013
ما هي حرب النكبة 1948 ؟ يتكلم الفيلم عن حرب النكبة عام 1948 وعدد الشهداء والضحايا وعدد المهجرين وتقسيم فلسطين وتقسيم القدس وأهم المدن التي احتلت ... ويتطرق ب...
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ما هي حرب النكبة 1948 ؟ يتكلم الفيلم عن حرب النكبة عام 1948 وعدد الشهداء والضحايا وعدد المهجرين وتقسيم فلسطين وتقسيم القدس وأهم المدن التي احتلت ... ويتطرق ب...
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 96659
- author: PalestineQA
River Patrol (1948)
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- Duration: 43:24
- Updated: 30 Apr 2013
River policemen go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring. Their enquiries lead them to the most notorious part of town and the night-club with a reputation to match. There they gain the confidence of the owner and skilfully match the evidence with the crime but before they can inform their superiors their cover is blown and they are on their own against the most ruthless criminals the underworld has to offer.
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River policemen go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring. Their enquiries lead them to the most notorious part of town and the night-club with a reputation to match. There they gain the confidence of the owner and skilfully match the evidence with the crime but before they can inform their superiors their cover is blown and they are on their own against the most ruthless criminals the underworld has to offer.
- published: 22 Aug 2012
- views: 6017
- author: hammerfilms
Top Liner 1948
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- Duration: 20:36
- Updated: 28 Apr 2013
A tour of the ocean liner R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth as it docks in Southhampton after a transatlantic voyage. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of thi...
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A tour of the ocean liner R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth as it docks in Southhampton after a transatlantic voyage. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of thi...
- published: 19 Jul 2008
- views: 40482
- author: travelfilmarchive
''1948'' - Koot en Bie
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 19 Aug 2012
De originele versie van ''1948 - Toen was geluk heel gewoon'' waarvan Kees van Kooten en Wim de Bie de tekst schreven op een melodie van Gilbert O' Sullivan ...
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De originele versie van ''1948 - Toen was geluk heel gewoon'' waarvan Kees van Kooten en Wim de Bie de tekst schreven op een melodie van Gilbert O' Sullivan ...
- published: 08 Aug 2008
- views: 35757
- author: maarteneasymemories
The Cars of Tomorrow
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 05 May 2013
Original Theatrical Release: May 21, 1948 My blog post about it: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2010/4/22/the-streamlined-car-of-1960-1948.html.
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Original Theatrical Release: May 21, 1948 My blog post about it: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2010/4/22/the-streamlined-car-of-1960-1948.html.
- published: 06 Apr 2010
- views: 346053
- author: Matt Novak
My Parents' First Car - 1948 Plymouth convertible
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- Duration: 7:25
- Updated: 06 May 2013
Joe and Beverly Smith were the proud owners of a 1948 Plymouth Convertible until they had to sell it when Joe was drafted to serve in the Korean War. As a 60...
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Joe and Beverly Smith were the proud owners of a 1948 Plymouth Convertible until they had to sell it when Joe was drafted to serve in the Korean War. As a 60...
- published: 26 Feb 2013
- views: 72610
- author: HagertyKnowsClassics
The 1948 Israeli War of Independence
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- Duration: 9:44
- Updated: 06 May 2013
The 1948 Israeli War of Independence began when the United Nations decided to partition Palestine into separated Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs were not s...
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The 1948 Israeli War of Independence began when the United Nations decided to partition Palestine into separated Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs were not s...
- published: 06 Feb 2008
- views: 152738
- author: ashburna0116
The Airport (1948)
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- Duration: 10:32
- Updated: 25 Apr 2013
"The air is the greatest freeway man will ever know. It doesn't have to be built or maintained. It touches every city and town." Producer: Encyclopedia Brita...
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"The air is the greatest freeway man will ever know. It doesn't have to be built or maintained. It touches every city and town." Producer: Encyclopedia Brita...
- published: 13 Jul 2009
- views: 47230
- author: AIRBOYD
Capitalism (1948)
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- Duration: 9:24
- Updated: 25 Apr 2013
Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/socialguidancefilms Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! In this one, a group of teenagers on a high...
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Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/socialguidancefilms Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! In this one, a group of teenagers on a high...
- published: 06 Jun 2007
- views: 91855
- author: shaggylocks
Bubble Bee (1948)
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- Duration: 7:11
- Updated: 06 May 2013
Referring you to http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1949/bubblebee.html and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041213/. Please subscribe or leave a comment! More sh...
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- published: 14 Dec 2009
- views: 14941874
- author: TheDisneyChannelNL
Olympic Ceremony Database - London 1948 (Opening Ceremony) - olympicceremony.org
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- Duration: 8:29
- Updated: 02 Apr 2013
For EVERY Olympic Opening Ceremony visit http://www.olympicceremony.org/ or http://bryanpinkall.blogspot.com/2012/06/olympic-ceremony-database-every-summer.html.
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For EVERY Olympic Opening Ceremony visit http://www.olympicceremony.org/ or http://bryanpinkall.blogspot.com/2012/06/olympic-ceremony-database-every-summer.html.
- published: 11 Jul 2012
- views: 11465
- author: Edward Lionheart
1948 Indian Chief motorcycle comes back to life after 40 years
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- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 04 May 2013
Old Indian motorcycles never die as this one demonstrates. Brought back to life after 40 years at Kiwi Motorcycles Riverside California 2010, this 1948 class...
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Old Indian motorcycles never die as this one demonstrates. Brought back to life after 40 years at Kiwi Motorcycles Riverside California 2010, this 1948 class...
- published: 22 Feb 2010
- views: 711130
- author: barajona2
Make Mine Freedom 1948 Harding College Cartoon; Democracy vs. "ISMs"
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- Duration: 9:31
- Updated: 28 Apr 2013
more at http://quickfound.net/links/government_news_and_links.html "This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of...
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more at http://quickfound.net/links/government_news_and_links.html "This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of...
- published: 16 Nov 2012
- views: 2328
- author: Jeff Quitney
Reconsidering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
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- Duration: 93:32
- Updated: 04 May 2013
Speaker: Professor Benny Morris Chair: Professor Nigel Ashton This event was recorded on 14 June 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building The lect...
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Speaker: Professor Benny Morris Chair: Professor Nigel Ashton This event was recorded on 14 June 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building The lect...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 7329
- author: lsewebsite
Going Places (1948)
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- Duration: 8:33
- Updated: 17 Mar 2013
Fun and Facts About America, John Sutherland Productions. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Defines the profit motive and dramatizes the part it has p...
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Fun and Facts About America, John Sutherland Productions. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Defines the profit motive and dramatizes the part it has p...
- published: 06 Jun 2006
- views: 27418
- author: AnimationStation
Albuquerque (1948) COLOR WESTERN
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- Duration: 90:17
- Updated: 04 May 2013
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Don Quijote de la Mancha (1948) Completa
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 132:19
- Updated: 30 Apr 2013
Tenes la oportunidad de conocer, leer y disfrutar de los contenidos que te ofrece la biblioteca virtual TEXTOS DEL ROJAS. Encontranos y leenos en: -WEB: http...
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Tenes la oportunidad de conocer, leer y disfrutar de los contenidos que te ofrece la biblioteca virtual TEXTOS DEL ROJAS. Encontranos y leenos en: -WEB: http...
- published: 11 Sep 2012
- views: 23245
- author: Textos del Rojas
THE 1948 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (NBC-TV HIGHLIGHTS)(PART 1)
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- Duration: 10:37
- Updated: 12 Mar 2013
Part 1 of 2. If you like "golden TV oldies", you should enjoy this 2-part YouTube series, which takes us back to the very earliest days of television -- 1948...
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Part 1 of 2. If you like "golden TV oldies", you should enjoy this 2-part YouTube series, which takes us back to the very earliest days of television -- 1948...
- published: 06 Jan 2010
- views: 24710
- author: DavidVonPein2
Isle of Man TT 1948
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- Duration: 5:47
- Updated: 22 Apr 2013
Highlights of the 1948 Isle of Man TT races.
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Highlights of the 1948 Isle of Man TT races.
- published: 03 Feb 2011
- views: 39543
- author: RandysClassicVideos
Raw Deal (1948) FULL MOVIE
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- Duration: 78:36
- Updated: 05 May 2013
Raw Deal (1948) directed by Anthony Mann, with Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor and Raymond Burr.
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Raw Deal (1948) directed by Anthony Mann, with Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor and Raymond Burr.
- published: 06 Nov 2012
- views: 22503
- author: skipjacktuner
photo: AP / Family Handout courtesy WOIO-TV
08 May 2013
CLEVELAND - In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl's mother ... He would not say who the father was ... The house was always locked, he said ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
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08 May 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "In America you have a right to be stupid-if you want to be. And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be." -Secretary of State John Kerry. It's hard not to become self-radicalized in the United States of America these days. Both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspected Boston Marathon Bombers, internalized this harsh and deadly truth ... "Terrorista #1."...(size: 5.6Kb)
photo: AP / Mark Duncan
07 May 2013
Amanda Berry, left, and Gina DeJesus right, both went missing as teens a decade ago. (Getty Images, APF / FBI). CLEVELAND — Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up but were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, and three brothers were arrested, police said ... "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry ... I need police ... ... I'm Amanda Berry ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)
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08 May 2013
ROME (AP) — At least four people died after a cargo ship slammed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, toppling it into the harbor, rescue officials said Wednesday. A half-dozen other people remained unaccounted for, including some feared trapped inside the submerged elevator of the control tower, officials said ... The crash occurred at around 11 p.m ... "The conditions were critical ... SpA Italian shipping line ... World news....(size: 2.3Kb)
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08 May 2013
. Share. 0. More than 30 suspects in a spectacular $50 million diamond heist have been rounded up in three countries and at least some of the precious stones have been recovered, Belgian and Swiss officials said today. The sweep operation started Tuesday with an arrest of a man in France and Swiss police arrested six other people said Anja Bijnens of the state prosecutor's office in Brussels ... The robbery was carried out on Feb ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
The Times of India
09 May 2013
"It is pertinent that the government should be directed to provide compensation to the kin of the silicosis patients by the offender units as per the Workmen Compensation Act 1923 or compensation should be paid by the government as the government's regulatory agencies has grossly failed to protect the lives of the workers at work place which is the violation of the Factories Act 1948, ESI Act 1948 and Mining Act 1952," said Carr. ....(size: 2.4Kb)
The Guardian
09 May 2013
The period from the mid-1930s onwards saw the beginning of "the most warped and tragic phase in the twentieth-century music. the total politicizing of the art by totalitarian means", writes Alex Ross in The Rest is Noise ... In 1948, the that the musical authorities in Moscow were unhappy with the "formalistic perversions and anti-democratic tendencies" of many leading Soviet composers ... The Manchester Guardian, 3 March 1948 ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
The Times of India
09 May 2013
New Straits/Business Times
09 May 2013
KUALA LUMPUR ... "The case has been classified under Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948. We expect to complete investigations in a week's time and after which it will be referred to the Attorney-General's Office ... Bernama. ....(size: 1.2Kb)
New Straits/Business Times
09 May 2013
"We are also studying the speeches made at the rally to see if there were elements of sedition under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948," he told Bernama via the short-messaging ......(size: 1.0Kb)
New Straits/Business Times
09 May 2013
"We are also studying the speeches made at the rally to see if there were elements of sedition under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948," he told Bernama via the short-messaging ......(size: 1.0Kb)
The Daily Telegraph Australia
09 May 2013
SUCH was his disapproval of materialism that Mahatma Gandhi rarely wore anything on his feet other than plain sandals ... Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, aged 78, by a Hindu radical ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
North Jersey
09 May 2013
BBC News
09 May 2013
The history of Silverstone racing circuit will be recorded in a new "heritage hub" after it sealed a £9.1m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund ... The hub will also include a 200-seat lecture theatre and an education suite ... The Northamptonshire circuit held its first race in 1948 and has hosted the British Formula One Grand Prix 47 times, among many other motor racing events ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
The Independent
09 May 2013
Film director Bryan Forbes has died “following a long illness” at the age of 86, a family spokesman has said. Forbes most famous works included the original 1970s horror classic Stepford Wives and Whistle Down The Wind. The “giant of cinema”, who was married to the actress Nanette Newman, died surrounded by his family at his home in Virginia Water, Surrey ... He started off his career as an actor and made his screen acting debut in 1948 ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
The Inquisitr
09 May 2013
Posted. May 8, 2013. Writer and director Brian Forbes died on Wednesday at the age of 86. Forbes’ films included Whistle Down the Wind and the 1970s horror classic The Stepford Wives. The director began his film career as an actor and screenwriter. Eventually, he became known as one of the most important figures in British film ... D’Ancona added of Forbes. ... He began his career as an actor before making his screen acting debut in 1948 ... Movies ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
Forbes
09 May 2013
John Wooden’s coaching career is well known. Wooden coached at two schools – Indiana State for two years before leaving his mark upon the game over a quarter century of coaching UCLA. Wooden took over a UCLA basketball program in 1948 that had two winning seasons over the previous eighteen, and steadily built a team that could contend ......(size: 3.2Kb)
Forbes
09 May 2013
John Wooden’s coaching career is well known. Wooden coached at two schools – Indiana State for two years before leaving his mark upon the game over a quarter century of coaching UCLA. Wooden took over a UCLA basketball program in 1948 that had two winning seasons over the previous eighteen, and steadily built a team that could contend ......(size: 3.2Kb)
This article is about the year 1948.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1945 1946 1947 – 1948 – 1949 1950 1951 |
| 1948 by topic: |
| Subject |
| By country |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 1948 MCMXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2701 |
| Armenian calendar | 1397 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6698 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 104–105 |
| Bengali calendar | 1355 |
| Berber calendar | 2898 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2492 |
| Burmese calendar | 1310 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7456–7457 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十一月廿一日 (4584/4644-11-21) — to —
戊子年十二月初二日(4585/4645-12-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 1664–1665 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1940–1941 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5708–5709 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2004–2005 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1870–1871 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5049–5050 |
| Holocene calendar | 11948 |
| Iranian calendar | 1326–1327 |
| Islamic calendar | 1367–1368 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 23 (昭和23年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4281 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 37 民國37年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2491 |
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Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events[link]
January[link]
- January 1
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) inaugurated.
- UK railways are nationalized to form British Railways.
- The Italian republican constitution goes into effect.
- The latest New Jersey State Constitution goes into effect.
- January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
- January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the Partition of India.
- January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java.
- January 22 – British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
- January 26 – Teigin poison case: A man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
- January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie.
- January 30
- Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
- 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
- January 31 – The British crown colony of the Malayan Union, Penang and Malacca form the Federation of Malaya.[1]
February[link]
- February 1 – The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
- February 4 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom within the British Commonwealth.
- February 16 – Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.[2]
- February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach by President O'Kelly.
- February 21 – The stock car racing series Nascar is founded by Bill France Sr. and William France, Sr.
- February 25 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech:"Vítězný únor"; Slovak:"Víťazný Február") until November 1989.
March[link]
- March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
- March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.[3]
- March 17
- Treaty of Brussels signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
- The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
- March 18 – The Round Table Conference in The Hague, Netherlands for the preparation of the decolonization process for Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an Independent Country, under the souvereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) Member State of the future Dutch Commonwealth.
- March 20
- Singapore holds its first elections.
- Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.
April[link]
- April
- Scientists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper about the big bang.
- April 3
- President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
- Jeju Uprising, Jeju residents revolt on Jeju island, South Korea.
- April 5 – 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nahshon; beginning of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
- April 7
- The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- A fire in a Buddhist monastery Shanghai kills 20 monks.
- April 9
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further 10 years of violence in all of Colombia (La Violencia).
- The Deir Yassin massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine.
- April 13 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine.
- April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded as the OEEC.
- April 18 – The first democratic general election with universal suffrage is held in Italy.
- April 19 – Burma joins the United Nations.
- April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil War ends.
- April 30 – Organization of American States (OAS) founded.
- April 30 – The Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.
May[link]
- May – The RAND Corporation is established as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution.
- May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.
- May 11 – Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic.
- May 14 The Declaration of Independence of Israel is made.
- May 15
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel and clash with Israeli forces.
- The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.[4]
- May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
- May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
- May 22 – The Soviets launched the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia.
- May 25 – The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) was founded on this date at Ellinwood Malate Church in Manila, Philippines.
- May 26 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
- May 28 – Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled by F W de Klerk in 1994.
- May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes: 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
June[link]
- June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.
- June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
- June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
- June 16
- Communist guerrillas kill 3 rubber planters in Malaya.
- Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
- June 17 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- June 18 – Malayan Emergency: A state of emergency is declared in the Malayan Union due to a communist insurgency.
- June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
- June 21 – The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.
- June 22 – The ship Empire Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
- June 24
- Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.
- The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.
- June 26 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- June 28
- The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet/Yugoslav split.
- David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.
- 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan. 3,769 dead, 22,203 injured.
July[link]
- July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in United Kingdom.
- July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways from Lympne to Le Touquet.
- July 13 – The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
- July 15
- The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.
- The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
- July 20 – Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt).
- July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada after a referendum.
- July 24 – A great oil fire breaks out in the harbor of Naantali, Finland.
- July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
- July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
- July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics
- July 31 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
August[link]
- August 1 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
- August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
- August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck; however, "The Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.
- August 15 – The Republic of Korea is established.
- August 18 – Danube Commission created by Belgrade Convention (enters into force 11 May 1949).
- August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established.
- August 24 – The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.[5]
- August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
September[link]
- September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
- September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
- September 6 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- September 9 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is formally declared, with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.
- September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder and first Governor General of Pakistan, dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nation-wide.
- September 12 – The State of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Army on the day after Pakistani leader Jinnah's death, to assist damage control. Operation Polo leads to the independence of Hyderabad state and its amalgamation into the Indian union.
- September 17 – Lehi members assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte.
- September 20 – Establishment of the city Rabwah.
- September 29 – Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.
October[link]
- October 6 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- October 10 – R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.
- October 11 – The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the World Series, 4 games to 2.
- October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.
- October 26 – Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
- October 28 – The massacre of Dawaymeh begins.
November[link]
- November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey and 'Dixiecrat' Strom Thurmond.
- November 12 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences 7 Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
- November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.
- November 16
- Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.
- The University of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia.
- November 17 – Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt.
- November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.
- November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta.
- November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium to capture their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.
December[link]
- December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so
- December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- December 11–12 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre: Scots Guards shoot 24 Chinese villagers in Malaya
- December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss on two counts of perjury
- December 26 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea
- December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi
- December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances
- December 31 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive the Egyptians from Negev
Date unknown[link]
- Brandeis University is founded.
- The Casimir effect is discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
- The Fresh Kills Landfill, the world's largest, opens on Staten Island, New York.
- The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- The Slovak city Gúta is renamed Kolárovo.
- The Tunnel of Vielha is opened in the Aran Valley, Spanish Pyrenees.
- Last recorded sighting of the Caspian Tiger in Kazakhstan.
- A pack of wolves kills about 40 children in the Darovskoye district of Russia.[6]
- Charles Warrell creates the first I-Spy books
- Rev.W.Awdry's third book James the Red Engine is published.
- Last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican.
- Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published.
Births[link]
January[link]
- January 2
- Mary Archer, British scientist
- Judith Miller, American journalist
- Joyce Wadler, American writer and memoirist
- Deborah Watling, British actress
- January 5
- Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
- Ted Lange, American actor and director
- January 7
- Kenny Loggins, American rock singer
- Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor
- January 10
- Teresa Graves, American actress and comedienne (d. 2002)
- William Sanderson, American actor and comedian
- Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist
- Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
- January 12
- Kenny Allen, English footballer
- Anthony Andrews, English actor
- January 14
- T-Bone Burnett, American record producer and musician
- Carl Weathers, American actor and football player
- January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (d. 1977)
- January 16
- John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
- Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
- January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
- January 19 – Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
- January 23
- Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician
- Katharine Holabird, American children's writer
- January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer
- January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian president
- January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor
- January 30 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
- January 31
- Paul Jabara, American actor, singer, and songwriter (d. 1992)
- Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February[link]
- February 1 – Rick James, Motown performer (d. 2004)
- February 2 – Ina Garten, American cooking author
- February 3
- Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Henning Mankell, Swedish writer
- February 4
- Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier), American hard rock singer and musician
- Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist
- Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
- February 5
- Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
- Christopher Guest, American actor, screenwriter, director and composer
- Barbara Hershey, American actress
- Tom Wilkinson, English actor
- February 6 – Jack Conway, American musician, composer, arranger, and guitarist
- February 10 – John Magnier, Irish businessman and thoroughbred racehorse breeder
- February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian
- February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
- February 13 – Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American film actress
- February 14
- Raymond Joseph Teller, American magician
- Jackie Martling, American comedian and radio personality
- February 17 – José José, Mexican singer and actor
- February 19
- Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and author (d. 2002)
- Tony Iommi, British heavy metal guitarist
- February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born American model and actress
- February 22
- John Ashton, American actor
- Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1970)
- February 24
- J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
- Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
- February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
- February 28 – Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 28
- Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer
- Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
- Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
- Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–) and Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
March[link]
- March 2
- R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce
- Rory Gallagher, Irish musician
- Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
- March 4
- Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
- James Ellroy, American writer
- Tom Grieve, American baseball player
- Leron Lee, American baseball player
- Chris Squire, British bassist
- Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
- March 5 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
- March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
- March 9 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
- March 11 – Dominique Sanda, French actress
- March 12 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter
- March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
- March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
- March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer
- March 20
- John de Lancie, American actor
- Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
- March 22
- Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer
- March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
- March 26 – Steven Tyler, American rock singer
- March 28
- Dianne Wiest, American actress
- Jayne Ann Krentz, née Castle (Amanda Quick), American novelist
- Dennis Unkovic, American author
- March 29 – Bud Cort, American actor
- March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
- March 31
- Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
- Rhea Perlman, American actress
April[link]
- April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and actor
- April 2 – Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
- April 4 – Squire Parsons, American gospel singer/songwriter
- April 12
- Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter (d. 2008)
- Don Fernando, director and actor of pornographic films
- Marcello Lippi, Italian football player and manager
- April 13 – Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
- April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
- April 17 – Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
- April 27 – Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
- April 28 – Terry Pratchett, English writer
- April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)
May[link]
- May 2 – Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
- May 4 – Tanya Falan, American singer
- May 5
- Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor
- Joe Esposito, American singer/songwriter
- Bill Ward, British rock drummer
- May 8
- Felicity Lott, English soprano
- Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer
- May 9 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and analyst
- May 11 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
- May 12 – Steve Winwood, English rock singer
- May 14 – Bob Woolmer, British cricket coach (d. 2007)
- May 15
- Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
- Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
- May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
- May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
- May 20 – Tesshō Genda, Japanese seiyu
- May 21
- D'Jamin Bartlett, American musical theatre actress
- Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor
- Leo Sayer, English rock musician
- Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker, English writer
- May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
- May 26 – Stevie Nicks, American rock singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
- May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
- May 29 – Michael Berkeley, British composer
- May 31 – John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June[link]
- June 1
- Tom Sneva, American former race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner
- Powers Boothe, American actor
- June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
- June 4 – Bob Champion, English jump jockey
- June 6
- Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
- Tony Levin, American bassist (King Crimson)
- June 9
- Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
- Gary Thorne, American play-by-play announcer
- June 11 – Dave Cash, American baseball player
- June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
- June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author
- June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter
- June 17 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
- June 19
- Lea Laven, Finnish singer
- Phylicia Rashad, African-American actress
- Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
- June 20 – Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
- June 21
- Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
- Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
- June 22 – Todd Rundgren, American rock singer and record producer
- June 23
- Luther Kent, American blues singer
- Clarence Thomas, American Supreme Court Justice
- June 24 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player
- June 27 – Camile Baudoin, American rock guitarist
- June 28 – Kathy Bates, American actress
- June 29 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
- June 30 – Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways company
July[link]
- July 1 – John Ford (musician), Best known for penning Part of the Union whilst in Strawbs
- July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
- July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
- July 12 – Richard Simmons, American television personality and fitness expert
- July 15 – Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
- July 16 – Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
- July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 20 – Muse Watson, American actor
- July 21
- Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
- Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English musician
- Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
- Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian and writer
- July 22 – Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
- July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
- July 25 – Steve Goodman, Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
- July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
- July 28 – Sally Struthers, American actress
- July 30
- Jean Reno, French actor
- Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and musician (d. 2010)
- July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, British author and professor
August[link]
- August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician
- August 2
- Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
- Bob Rae, Canadian politician
- August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
- August 13 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano
- August 15 – George Ryton, British Formula One engineer
- August 18 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
- August 19 – Robert Hughes (Australian actor)
- August 20
- Robert Plant, English rock singer (Led Zeppelin)
- John Noble, Australian actor
- August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet and Russian physicist
- August 24
- Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
- Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
- Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, President of Finland
- August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
- August 30 – Lewis Black, American comedian
- August 31
- Cyril Jordan, American musician
- Holger Osieck, German football manager
September[link]
- September 2
- Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sportscaster
- Nate Archibald, American basketball player
- September 3
- Don Brewer, American drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
- Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president (d. 2008)
- September 4 – Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
- September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
- September 7 – Susan Blakely, American actress
- September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
- September 10
- Judy Geeson, British actress
- Bob Lanier, American basketball player
- Margaret Trudeau, ex-wife of the former Prime Minister of Canada
- September 11 – John Martyn, British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009)
- September 13 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (d. 2003)
- September 16 – Ron Blair, American bassist (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)
- September 17 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
- September 19
- Nadezhda Tkachenko, former Soviet pentathlete
- Jeremy Irons, English actor
- September 20 – George R.R. Martin, American speculative fiction author
- September 22
- Denis Burke, Australian politician
- Captain Mark Phillips, first husband of Anne, Princess Royal
- September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1998)
- September 25
- Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch
- Cäcilia Rentmeister, German art historian and gender researcher
- September 26 – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress
- September 27 – Michele Dotrice, English actress
- September 29
- Burton Richardson, American game show announcer
- Mark Farner, American rock guitarist and singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
- Bryant Gumbel, African-American television broadcaster
- Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
October[link]
- October 1 – Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (d. 2001)
- October 2
- Avery Brooks, American actor and musician
- Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (d. 1998)
- Chris LeDoux, American singer and rodeo star (d. 2005)
- October 4 – Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer
- October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
- October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
- October 8 – Johnny Ramone, American rock guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004)
- October 9 – Jackson Browne, American rock musician
- October 11 – Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer
- October 13
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
- Ted Poe, American politician
- John Ford Coley, American rock musician
- October 14
- Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
- David Ruprecht, American actor and writer (Supermarket Sweep)
- October 15 – Chris de Burgh, Irish singer (Lady in Red)
- October 16 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
- October 17
- George Wendt, American actor
- Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
- Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
- October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
- October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
- October 21
- Allen Vigneron, American Catholic Archbishop of Archdiocese of Detroit
- Tom Everett, American actor
- October 22 – Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
- October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish businessman
- October 25
- Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
- Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
- October 26 – Toby Harrah, American former baseball player
- October 28 – Telma Hopkins, American actress and singer
- October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress
November[link]
- November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress
- November 3 – Lulu, Scottish singer and actress
- November 4 – Amadou Toumani Toure, former President of Mali
- November 5
- Bob Barr, American politician
- Dallas Holm, American Christian musician
- William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist and singer (The Eagles)
- November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor and director
- November 9 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football player and manager
- November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
- November 13 – Humayun Ahmed Bengali language Writer.
- November 13 – Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician
- November 14
- Charles, Prince of Wales, British Prince and son of Elizabeth II (then Duchess of Edinburgh) and The Duke of Edinburgh
- Robert Ginty, American actor and director (d. 2009)
- Dee Wallace, American actress
- November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (d. 2007)
- November 16
- Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
- Chi Coltrane, American musician
- November 17 – Howard Dean, American politician
- November 20
- Richard Masur, American actor, director and former president of Screen Actor Guild
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
- Barbara Hendricks, American-born soprano
- November 21 – Michel Suleiman, current President of Lebanon
- November 23 – Dominique-France Picard, queen of Egypt
- November 24 – Joe Howard, American actor
- November 27 – James Avery, American actor
- November 28 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and screenwriter
December[link]
- December 2
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
- Toninho Horta, Brazilian singer and musician
- December 3
- Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal singer
- Rick Cua, American singer and evangelist
- December 6
- Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion
- JoBeth Williams, American actress and director
- December 7
- Gary Morris, American country singer and actor
- Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
- Tony Thomas, American television producer
- December 10 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
- December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer
- December 13
- Lillian Board, British Olympic athlete (d. 1970)
- David O'List, British rock guitarist
- Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist and singer
- December 14
- Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
- Kim Beazley, Australian politician
- December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
- December 21
- Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor and film producer
- Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist
- December 22
- Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
- Noel Edmonds, British TV presenter and DJ
- Flip Mark, American child actor
- December 23 – Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer, educator, author, and music journalist
- December 25 – Barbara Mandrell, American country singer
- December 27 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor
- December 28 – Dick Siegel, American songwriter
- December 29 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician
- December 31
- Joe Dallesandro, American model and actor
- Donna Summer, African-American singer and actress (d. 2012)
Date unknown[link]
- Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet and novelist
- Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman and murder victim (d. 1995)
- John Blair Moore, American artist
- Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician
- Edward Rutherfurd, British novelist
Deaths[link]
January–March[link]
- January 1 – Edna May, American actress (b. 1878)
- January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
- January 8 – Edward Stanley Kellogg, 16th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870)
- January 21 – Eliza Moore, Last person born into slavery in the United States (b. 1843)
- January 21 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
- January 24 – Bill Cody, American actor (b. 1891)
- January 29 – Tomislav II of Croatia, (Aimone 4th Duke of Aosta), king (b. 1900)
- January 30
- Nigel De Brulier, English actor (b. 1877)
- Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869)
- Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871)
- February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878)
- February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
- February 11 – Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898)
- February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866)
- February 25 – Alexander du Toit, South African geologist (b. 1878)
- March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896)
- March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914)
- March 10
- Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
- Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
- March 24 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious and political philosopher (b. 1874)
- March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1885)
- May 9 – Viola Allen, stage actress, (b. 1867)
April–June[link]
- April 9
- George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
- April 15 – Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines (b. 1892)
- April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
- April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
- April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882)
- May 3 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin of Minister Ritavuori (b. 1876)
- May 13 – Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, American daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1920)
- May 15 – Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
- May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885)
- May 28 – Unity Mitford, British friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914)
- May 29 – May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865)
- May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
- June 6 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1864)
- June 13 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
- June 25 – William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
- June 26 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murder) (b. 1924)
July–September[link]
- July 2 – Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as "The Great Master," (b. 1858)
- July 5
- Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
- Carole Landis, American actress player (b. 1919)
- July 9 – James Baskett, American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (d. 1948) (b. 1904)
- July 11 – King Baggot, American actor (b. 1879)
- July 15 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
- July 18 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (b. 1869)
- July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (b. 1904)
- July 23 – David Wark Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875)
- July 27 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright (b. 1882)
- July 31 – Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd, Franklin Roosevelt's lover (b. 1891)
- August 3 – Tommy Ryan, American boxing champion (b. 1870)
- August 10
- Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
- Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
- August 12 – Harry Brearley, English inventor of stainless steel (b. 1871)
- August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895)
- August 17 – Ettie Garner, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1869)
- August 27 – Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
- September 1 – Muhammad VII al-Munsif, ruler of Tunisia 1942–43 (b. 1881)
- September 2 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar and World War I spy (b. 1883)
- September 3 – Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
- September 5 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
- September 10 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
- September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
- September 12 – Rupert D'Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. 1876)
- September 17 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1895)
- September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin, Famous Mahl writer (b. 1881)
- September 24 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
- September 26 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
- September 30 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
October–December[link]
- October 1 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Prime Minister of Siam (b. 1884)
- October 12 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
- October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (b. 1875)
- October 15 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
- October 18 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress (b. 1904)
- October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
- October 31 – Mary Nolan, American actress (b. 1905)
- November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890)
- November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874)
- November 28 – D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873)
- December 2 – Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915)
- December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863)
- December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged):
- Kenji Doihara, spy (b. 1883)
- Koki Hirota, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- Heitarō Kimura, general (b. 1888)
- Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878)
- Akira Mutō, general (b. 1892)
- Seishirō Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885)
- Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
- December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer (b. 1885)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Physics – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
- Chemistry – Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
- Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller
- Literature – T. S. Eliot
- Peace – not awarded
References[link]
- ^ Cabinet Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (UK). 21 February 1956. Federation of Malaya Agreement
- ^ Moore, P. (1995) The Guinness book of astronomy (5th ed.) Enfield, UK: Guinness Publishing. p. 110.
- ^ "Brampton's largest flood left its watery mark". The Brampton Guardian. 2008-03-10. http://thebramptonguardian.com/brampton/news/article/44736. Retrieved 2008-03-10. [dead link]
- ^ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-brutal-murder-begins-an-unusual-investigation
- ^ http://www.accj.or.jp/history
- ^ Guinness book of world records. 2008. p. 137.
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