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