1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.

Clockwise, from top left: Israeli Declaration of Independence; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signing the Treaty of Brussels; The 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London, United Kingdom; The trial of persons accused of participation and complicity in the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; a dmaged building after the 1948 Fukui earthquake; an Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500 lb (230 kg) bombs in the Malayan Emergency; Pro-Communist demonstrations before the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état; West Berliners watch a Douglas C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport in the Berlin Blockade.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1948 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1948
MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita2701
Armenian calendar1397
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ
Assyrian calendar6698
Baháʼí calendar104–105
Balinese saka calendar1869–1870
Bengali calendar1355
Berber calendar2898
British Regnal year12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2492
Burmese calendar1310
Byzantine calendar7456–7457
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4645 or 4438
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4646 or 4439
Coptic calendar1664–1665
Discordian calendar3114
Ethiopian calendar1940–1941
Hebrew calendar5708–5709
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2004–2005
 - Shaka Samvat1869–1870
 - Kali Yuga5048–5049
Holocene calendar11948
Igbo calendar948–949
Iranian calendar1326–1327
Islamic calendar1367–1368
Japanese calendarShōwa 23
(昭和23年)
Javanese calendar1879–1880
Juche calendar37
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4281
Minguo calendarROC 37
民國37年
Nanakshahi calendar480
Thai solar calendar2491
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2074 or 1693 or 921
    — to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2075 or 1694 or 922

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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Israeli Declaration of Independence, 1948

June

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A C-54 Skymaster landing at Berlin Tempelhof Airport

July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Dutch forces in the Dutch East Indies, 1948

Date unknown

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Births

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Births
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January

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Ichirou Mizuki
 
John Carpenter
 
Carl Weathers
 
Davíð Oddsson
 
Mikhail Baryshnikov
 
Charles Taylor
 
Akira Yoshino

February

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Henning Mankell
 
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo
 
Alice Cooper
 
Christopher Guest
 
Barbara Hershey
 
Bernadette Peters

March

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Eddy Grant
 
James Taylor
 
Billy Crystal
 
Sérgio Vieira de Mello
 
Andrew Lloyd Webber
 
Steven Tyler
 
Rhea Perlman
 
Al Gore

April

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
 
Frank Abagnale
 
Terry Pratchett
 
George Tupou V
 
Steve Winwood
 
Brian Eno
 
Grace Jones
 
Leo Sayer
 
Klaus Meine
 
Stevie Nicks
 
Svetlana Alexievich
 
John Bonham

June

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Phylicia Rashad
 
Andrzej Sapkowski
 
Kathy Bates
 
Ian Paice

July

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Jeremy Spencer
 
Nathalie Baye
 
Richard Simmons
 
Daphne Maxwell Reid
 
Rubén Blades
 
Cat Stevens
 
Peggy Fleming
 
Jean Reno

August

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Jean-Pierre Raffarin
 
Deana Martin
 
John Noble
 
Robert Plant
 
Sgt. Slaughter
 
Lewis Black

September

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Jeremy Irons
 
George R. R. Martin

October

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Avery Brooks
 
Hema Malini
 
Margot Kidder
 
Akira Kushida
 
Kate Jackson

November

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Lulu
 
Glenn Frey
 
Amadou Toumani Touré
 
Hassan Rouhani
 
Charles III
 
John Bolton
 
Michel Suleiman

December

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Ozzy Osbourne
 
JoBeth Williams
 
Yoshihide Suga
 
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
 
Samuel L. Jackson
 
Gérard Depardieu

Deaths

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January

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King Tomislav II of Croatia
 
Mahatma Gandhi
 
Orville Wright

February

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Sergei Eisenstein

March

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Antonin Artaud

April

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Manuel Roxas
 
Kantarō Suzuki
 
Mitsumasa Yonai
 
Kathleen Cavendish
 
Dame May Whitty

June

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Nasib al-Bitar
 
Prince Sabahaddin

July

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Albert Bates
 
Charles Fillmore
 
Carole Landis

August

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Babe Ruth
 
Charles Evans Hughes

September

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Edvard Beneš
 
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

October

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Franz Lehár

November

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Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria
 
Béla Miklós

December

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João Tamagnini Barbosa
 
Kōki Hirota
 
Hideki Tojo

Nobel Prizes

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