What Happened In October 1948 In History

Historical Events for October, 1948

• 5th » The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
• 27th » Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
• 28th » Switzerland named Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller known as Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 29th » Safsaf massacre.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1948

• 1st » Cub Koda, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brownsville Station (band) named Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
• 2nd » Trevor Brooking, English footballer and manager
• 2nd » Avery Brooks, American actor and director
• 2nd » Donna Karan, American fashion designer, founded DKNY
• 2nd » Siim Kallas, Estonian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 2nd » Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India called Femina Miss India 1965 (d. 1998)
• 2nd » Chris LeDoux, American singer-songwriter and sculptor (d. 2005)
• 4th » Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
• 4th » Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful of Blues)
• 5th » Carter Cornelius, American singer (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (d. 1991)
• 5th » Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
• 5th » Zoran Živković (writer) or Zoran Živković, Serbian author
• 6th » Gerry Adams, Irish politician
• 6th » Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer
• 7th » Diane Ackerman, American poet and author
• 7th » Stephen Rucker, American composer
• 8th » Benjamin Cheever, American author
• 8th » Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
• 8th » Pedro López (serial killer) named Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
• 8th » Sarah Purcell, American radio and television host
• 8th » Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
• 9th » Jackson Browne, German-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
• 9th » Dave Samuels, American vibraphone player (Caribbean Jazz Project)
• 10th » Séverine (singer) or Séverine, French singer and actress
• 10th » Ed Volker, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Radiators (American band) called The Radiators)
• 11th » Cecilia (Spanish singer) or Cecilia, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 1976)
• 11th » Lauri Nebel, Estonian actor
• 11th » Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal
• 12th » Rick Parfitt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo (band) or Status Quo)
• 12th » Hans Sprenger, German footballer
• 13th » Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer (d. 1997)
• 13th » John Ford Coley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
• 13th » Lacy J. Dalton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 14th » Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer (Boney M)
• 14th » Gerard Murphy (Irish actor) known as Gerard Murphy, Irish-English actor (d. 2013)
• 14th » David Ruprecht, American game show host and actor
• 15th » Chris de Burgh, Argentinian-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 15th » Renato Corona, Filipino jurist and lawyer, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 16th » Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
• 16th » Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
• 17th » Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007)
• 17th » Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress
• 17th » George Wendt, American actor
• 18th » Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
• 18th » Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright
• 19th » Dave Mallow, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 19th » Patrick Simmons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Doobie Brothers)
• 20th » Sandra Dickinson, American-English actress
• 20th » Piet Hein Donner, Dutch jurist and politician, Ministry of Security and Justice (Netherlands) named Dutch Minister of Justice
• 20th » Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, 27th List of mayors of Ankara e.g Mayor of Ankara
• 21st » Shaye J. D. Cohen, American historian and academic
• 21st » Tom Everett, American actor and singer
• 21st » Allen Henry Vigneron, American archbishop
• 22nd » Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
• 22nd » Debbie Macomber, American author
• 23rd » Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory
• 23rd » Brian Ross (journalist) named Brian Ross, American journalist
• 24th » Barry Ryan (singer) or Barry Ryan, English singer-songwriter
• 24th » Paul Ryan (singer) known as Paul Ryan, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1992)
• 24th » Kweisi Mfume, American politician
• 25th » Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
• 25th » Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and author
• 25th » Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
• 25th » Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
• 26th » Toby Harrah, American baseball player and coach
• 28th » Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
• 29th » Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic
• 29th » Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer
• 30th » Rusty Goffe, English actor
• 30th » Garry McDonald, Australian actor and screenwriter
• 31st » Michael Kitchen, English actor and producer

Famous Deaths for October 1948

• 10th » Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
• 12th » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 15th » Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 18th » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 24th » Franz Lehár, Slovak composer (b. 1870)
• 24th » Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)

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