1948
Dave Mallow, American voice actor and screenwriter (died 2025)
Dave Mallow was an American voice actor.
Dave Mallow, American voice actor and screenwriter (died 2025)
The 1940s
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1948
Patrick Simmons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Patrick Simmons is an American musician best known as a founding member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers, with whom he was inducted as into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 20…
Patrick Simmons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948
Peter Combe, Australian entertainer
Peter Charles Combe is an Australian children's entertainer and musician. At the ARIA Music Awards he has won three ARIA Awards for Best Children's Album, for Toffee Apple (1988), …
Peter Combe, Australian entertainer
1948
Sandra Dickinson, American-English actress and composer
Sandra Dickinson is an American-British actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has often played characters within the trope of a dumb blonde …
Sandra Dickinson, American-English actress and composer
1948
Piet Hein Donner, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
Jan Pieter Hendrik "Piet Hein" Donner is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of Stat…
Piet Hein Donner, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
1948
Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, Mayor of Ankara
İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who served as the mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994, he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999,…
Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, Mayor of Ankara
1948
Shaye J. D. Cohen, American historian and academic
Shaye J. D. Cohen is an American Hebraist, historian, and rabbi. He is a modern scholar of the Hebrew Bible. Currently, he is the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philos…
Shaye J. D. Cohen, American historian and academic
1948
Allen Henry Vigneron, American archbishop
Allen Henry Vigneron is an American Catholic prelate who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and ecclesiastical superior of the Cayman Islands from 2008 …
Allen Henry Vigneron, American archbishop
1948
Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2021)
Michael Hendrick was an English cricketer, who played in thirty Tests and twenty-two One Day Internationals for England from 1973 to 1981. He played for Derbyshire from 1969 to 198…
Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2021)
1948
Debbie Macomber, American author
Debbie Macomber is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her Cedar Cove series of novels was a…
Debbie Macomber, American author
1948
Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory
Hermann Maria Hauser KBE is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.
Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory
1948
Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality (died 2021)
Sir Gerrard Jude Robinson was an Irish-born British business executive and television presenter. He was non-executive chairman of Allied Domecq and chairman/chief executive of Gran…
Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality (died 2021)
1948
Brian Ross, American journalist
Brian Elliot Ross is an American investigative journalist who served as the Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News until 2018. He reported for ABC World News Tonight with D…
Brian Ross, American journalist
1948
Jordi Sabatés, Spanish musician (died 2022)
Jordi Sabatés Navarro was a Spanish pianist, composer, and arranger.
Jordi Sabatés, Spanish musician (died 2022)
1948
Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player (died 2022)
Philip Bennett was a Welsh rugby union player who played as a fly-half for Llanelli RFC and the Wales national team. He began his career in 1966, and a year later he had taken over…
Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player (died 2022)
1948
Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
Daniel Paul Issel is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning All-American twice en route to a s…
Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
1948
Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete
Sigleif Johansen is a former Norwegian biathlete. He won a silver medal in the 20 km individual at the World Championships in 1977 in Lillehammer, and a bronze medal in Ruhpolding …
Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete
1948
Kevin Borich, New Zealand-Australian guitarist and songwriter
Kevin Nicholas Borich is a New Zealand-born Australian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a key member of the La De Da's, the founder and frontman of the Kevin Borich Expres…
Kevin Borich, New Zealand-Australian guitarist and songwriter
1948
Kweisi Mfume, American lawyer and politician
Kweisi Mfume is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, first serving from 1987 to 1996 and again since 2020. A member of t…
Kweisi Mfume, American lawyer and politician
1948
Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
David William Cowens is an American former professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played the center position and occasionally played power for…
Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
1948
Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
Danny Mack Gable is an American former folkstyle and freestyle wrestler and coach. Considered to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Gable is a two-time NCAA Division I n…
Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
1948
Toby Harrah, American baseball player and coach
Colbert Dale "Toby" Harrah is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1986. Harrah played the majority…
Toby Harrah, American baseball player and coach
1948
Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
Telma Louise Hopkins is an American actress and pop singer. Hopkins rose to prominence as a member of the pop group Tony Orlando and Dawn, who had several number-one songs. She als…
Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
1948
Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic (died 2024)
Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psycholog…
Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic (died 2024)