Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
Baseball Player
1
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Civil Rights Leader
2
Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Inventor
3
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)
World Leader
4
Hideki Tojo (1884-1948)
Politician
5
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
6
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
7
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
8
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Painter
9
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
Director
10
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
11
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
12
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
13
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
14
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
Entrepreneur
15
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
16
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
War Hero
17
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
18
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Anthropologist
19
Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)
Novelist
20
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
21
Adolf Behne (1885-1948)
Architect
22
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
23
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
24
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
25
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Playwright
26
Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948)
Race Car Driver
27
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
28
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
29
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Poet
30
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
31
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
32
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
33
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
34
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
35
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
36
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
37
Leo White (1873-1948)
38
Harry Greenwood (1881-1948)
39
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
40
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
41
Prosper Montagne (1865-1948)
Chef
42
Gil Dobie (1879-1948)
Football Coach
43
Warren William (1894-1948)
44
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
45
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
46
Lewis Schwellenbach (1894-1948)
47
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
48
Celebrities Born in 1948
Deaths by Year
