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
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
Activist
6
Hugo Boss (1885-1948)
Fashion Designer
7
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Novelist
8
James Baskett (1904-1948)
Movie Actor
9
Hack Wilson (1900-1948)
10
Mileva Maric (1875-1948)
Physicist
11
DW Griffith (1875-1948)
Director
12
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
13
Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)
First Lady
14
Witold Pilecki (1901-1948)
War Hero
15
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
16
Carole Landis (1919-1948)
Movie Actress
17
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948)
18
Gregg Toland (1904-1948)
Cinematographer
19
Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Film Producer
20
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)
Supreme Court Justice
21
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Playwright
22
Mordecai Brown (1876-1948)
23
Jake Powell (1908-1948)
24
Celebrities Born in 1948
Deaths by Year
Charles Winter (1870-1948)
25
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Poet
26
Alice Brown (1857-1948)
27
Michael Roberts (1902-1948)
28
Harry Brearley (1871-1948)
Entrepreneur
29
Jessie Lincoln (1875-1948)
Family Member
30
Harry Dexter White (1892-1948)
Economist
31
Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)
32
Richard Atwater (1892-1948)
Children's Author
33
Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (1861-1948)
King
34
Prosper Montagne (1865-1948)
Chef
35
Bessie Jackson (1897-1948)
Blues Singer
36
Warren William (1894-1948)
37
Viola Allen (1867-1948)
38
Harry Kent (1879-1948)
Soccer Player
39
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
40
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Anthropologist
41
Charles Williams Nash (1864-1948)
42
Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948)
Race Car Driver
43
Gil Dobie (1879-1948)
Football Coach
44
Adolf Behne (1885-1948)
Architect
45
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Painter
46
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
47
Harry Greenwood (1881-1948)
48