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In the year 1948

1,627 Notable birthdays

Sinta Nuriyah

4th first lady of indonesia.

Born March 8th, 1948 (age 78 years) in Jombang.

Krzysztof Majchrzak

Polish actor.

Born March 2nd, 1948 (age 78 years) in Gdańsk.

Kazuyuki Sogabe

Japanese actor, voice actor, musician and narrator (1948–2006).

Born April 16th, 1948 in Funabashi.

Died September 17th, 2006 at 58 years old in Tokyo (esophageal cancer). [ref]

Itzhak Shum

Israeli footballer.

Born September 1st, 1948 (age 77 years) in Chișinău.

Henny Eman

Aruban politician (1948–2025).

Born March 20th, 1948 in Aruba. [ref]

Died January 6th, 2025 at 76 years old in Horacio Oduber Hospital. [ref]

Trinh Xuan Thuan

Vietnamese-american astrophysicist.

Born August 20th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Hanoi.

Dmitri Smirnov

Russian composer (1948-2020).

Born November 2nd, 1948 in Minsk.

Died April 9th, 2020 at 71 years old in Watford (COVID-19). [ref]

Zhang Chengzhi

Chinese writer.

Born September 10th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Beijing.

Joyce Moreno

Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Born January 31st, 1948 (age 78 years) in Rio de Janeiro.

Meja Mwangi

Kenyan writer.

Born December 27th, 1948 in Nanyuki.

Died December 11th, 2025 at 76 years old in Malindi. [ref]

Levan Tediashvili

Soviet-georgian wrestler (1948–2024).

Born March 15th, 1948 in Sagarejo.

Died February 17th, 2024 at 75 years old [ref]

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

German particle physicist and the director general of cern since 2009.

Born May 24th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Bad Boll.

Ertuğrul Kürkcü

Turkish statesperson (born 1948).

Born May 5th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Bursa. [ref]

Anne Queffélec

French classical pianist, music pedagogue.

Born January 17th, 1948 (age 78 years) in Paris.

Sonja Biserko

Serbian human rights activist.

Born February 14th, 1948 (age 78 years) in Belgrade.

George Murry

Catholic bishop (1948-2020).

Born December 28th, 1948 in Camden. [ref]

Died June 5th, 2020 at 71 years old in New York City.

Jiří Barta

Czech animator and director (born 1948).

Born November 26th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Prague. [ref]

Giovanni Tria

Italian economist.

Born September 28th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Rome.

Robert J. Cenker

American astronaut.

Born November 5th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Uniontown.

Ernst Muldashev

Russian surgeon, ophthalmologist.

Born January 1st, 1948 (age 78 years) in Sermenevo.

Hans Westerhof

Dutch footballer and manager.

Born November 24th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Terborg.

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

German author.

Born December 18th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Reinbek.

Alex Ribeiro

Brazilian racing driver.

Born November 7th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Belo Horizonte.

Hassan Wirajuda

Indonesian politician.

Born July 9th, 1948 (age 77 years) in Tangerang.

Charlotte Gray

Canadian historian (*1948).

Born January 3rd, 1948 (age 78 years) in Sheffield.

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