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
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
6
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
7
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
8
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Novelist
9
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
10
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
11
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
12
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
13
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Painter
14
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
Director
15
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
16
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Poet
17
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
18
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
19
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
20
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
21
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
22
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
Composer
23
Leo White (1873-1948)
24
Celebrities Born in 1948
Deaths by Year
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
25
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
26
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
27
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
28
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
War Hero
29
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
30
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
31
Fred P Cone (1871-1948)
32
Adolf Behne (1885-1948)
Architect
33
Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
34
Sonnyboy Williamson I (1914-1948)
35
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
36
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
Entrepreneur
37
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
38
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Playwright
39
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
40
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
41
Warren William (1894-1948)
42
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
43
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
44
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
45
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Anthropologist
46
Gil Dobie (1879-1948)
Football Coach
47
Prosper Montagne (1865-1948)
Chef
48
