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== Births == | == Births == | ||
- | [[Tee Scott]] - [[Brian Eno]] - [[Lester Bangs]] - [[Catherine Breillat]] - [[John Carpenter]] - [[Nick Drake]] - [[Donna Summer]] - [[Joe Dallesandro]] - [[Ian McEwan]] - [[Martin Hannett]] - [[William Gibson]] - [[Francis Grasso]] - [[Glenn Branca]] - [[Gérard Depardieu]] - [[Catherine Millet]] - [[Eric Fischl]] - [[John Martyn]] - [[James Ellroy]] | + | [[Tee Scott]] - [[Catherine Breillat]] - [[Ian McEwan]] - [[Martin Hannett]] - [[William Gibson]] - [[Francis Grasso]] - [[Glenn Branca]] - [[Catherine Millet]] - [[Eric Fischl]] |
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* [[Donald Fagen]], American rock keyboardist | * [[Donald Fagen]], American rock keyboardist | ||
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* [[Johnny Ramone]], American guitarist ([[Ramones]]) (d. [[2004]]) | * [[Johnny Ramone]], American guitarist ([[Ramones]]) (d. [[2004]]) | ||
* [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], Pakistani musician (d. [[1997]]) | * [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], Pakistani musician (d. [[1997]]) | ||
- | * [[December 2]] | + | * [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]], American writer |
- | ** [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]], American writer | + | * [[Lester Bangs]], American music journalist (d. [[1982]]) |
- | ** [[Toninho Horta]], Brazilian singer and musician | + | * [[Samuel L. Jackson]], African-American actor and film producer |
- | ** [[Christine Westermann]], German television and radio host, journalist and author | + | * [[Lynne Thigpen]], American actress (d. [[2003]]) |
- | * [[December 3]] | + | *[[Gérard Depardieu]], French actor |
- | ** [[Rick Cua]], American singer and evangelist | + | * [[Joe Dallesandro]], American model and actor |
- | ** [[Ozzy Osbourne]], English singer ([[Black Sabbath]]) | + | * [[Donna Summer]], African-American singer and actress (d. [[2012]]) |
- | * [[December 6]] | + | |
- | ** [[Keke Rosberg]], Finnish Formula One champion | + | |
- | ** [[Marius Müller-Westernhagen]], German actor and musician | + | |
- | ** [[JoBeth Williams]], American actress and director | + | |
- | * [[December 7]] | + | |
- | ** [[Gary Morris]], American country singer and actor | + | |
- | ** [[Tony Thomas (producer)|Tony Thomas]], American television producer | + | |
- | ** [[Mads Vinding]], Danish bassist | + | |
- | * [[December 10]] – [[Abu Abbas]], founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
- | * [[December 11]] – [[Chester Thompson]], American rock drummer | + | |
- | * [[December 12]] – [[Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa]], 20th [[President of Portugal]] | + | |
- | * [[December 13]] | + | |
- | ** [[Lillian Board]], South African-born English Olympic athlete (d. [[1970]]) | + | |
- | ** [[Ted Nugent]], American rock guitarist and singer | + | |
- | ** [[David O'List]], English rock guitarist | + | |
- | * [[December 14]] | + | |
- | ** [[Lester Bangs]], American music journalist (d. [[1982]]) | + | |
- | ** [[Kim Beazley]], Australian politician | + | |
- | * [[December 19]] – [[Ken Brown (ice hockey)|Ken Brown]], Canadian ice hockey player | + | |
- | * [[December 20]] – [[Alan Parsons]], English songwriter, musician and record producer | + | |
- | * [[December 21]] | + | |
- | ** [[Samuel L. Jackson]], African-American actor and film producer | + | |
- | ** [[Willi Resetarits]], Austrian musician and cabaret artist | + | |
- | * [[December 22]] | + | |
- | ** [[Noel Edmonds]], English TV presenter and DJ | + | |
- | ** [[Flip Mark]], American child actor | + | |
- | ** [[Lynne Thigpen]], American actress (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
- | * [[December 23]] – [[Jim Ferguson]], American guitarist, composer, educator, author and music journalist | + | |
- | * [[December 25]] | + | |
- | ** [[Alia Al-Hussein|Queen Alia]] (d. [[1977]]) | + | |
- | ** [[Barbara Mandrell]], American country singer | + | |
- | * [[December 27]] | + | |
- | **[[Ronnie Caldwell]], American [[soul music]] and [[rhythm and blues]] musician (d. [[1967]]) | + | |
- | **[[Gérard Depardieu]], French actor | + | |
- | * [[December 28]] | + | |
- | ** [[Dick Siegel]], American songwriter | + | |
- | ** [[Mary Weiss]], American singer ([[The Shangri-Las]]) | + | |
- | * [[December 29]] – [[Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)|Peter Robinson]], Northern Ireland First Minister | + | |
- | * [[December 31]] | + | |
- | ** [[Stephen Cleobury]], English composer and conductor | + | |
- | ** [[Joe Dallesandro]], American model and actor | + | |
- | ** [[Sandy Jardine]], Scottish professional footballer playing for Rangers and Hearts and representing Scotland (d. [[2014]]) | + | |
- | ** [[Donna Summer]], African-American singer and actress (d. [[2012]]) | + | |
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- | ===Date unknown=== | + | |
- | [[File:Judy Nylon.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Judy Nylon]]]] | + | |
- | * [[Archana Bhattacharyya]], Indian physicist | + | |
- | * [[Miguel Cabrera Cabrera]], Spanish architect and politician | + | |
- | * [[Vicatan]], born Vicente Doria Catan Jr., Filipino comic book artist (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
- | * [[Gudo Hoegel]], German actor and voice actor | + | |
- | * [[Phalon Jones]], American [[soul music]] and [[rhythm and blues]] musician (d. [[1967]]) | + | |
- | * [[John Blair Moore]], American comic book artist | + | |
- | * [[Johnny Nicholas]], American blues musician | + | |
- | * [[Judy Nylon]], American artist and musician | + | |
- | * [[Edward Rutherfurd]], born Francis Edward Wintle, English novelist | + | |
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==Deaths == | ==Deaths == | ||
[[Antonin Artaud]] - [[Sergei Eisenstein]] - [[Kurt Schwitters]] | [[Antonin Artaud]] - [[Sergei Eisenstein]] - [[Kurt Schwitters]] | ||
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"Pop culture - the folk culture of the modern market, the culture of the instant, at once subsuming past and future and refusing to acknowledge the reality of either - began about 1948, in the United States and Great Britain." --Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, p. 257. |
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1948 is the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
- The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Jack Kerouac introduces the term Beat Generation
- Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Literature
- And We'll Kill All the Ugly Ones by Boris Vian
- The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
- The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
Visual culture
Music
- Étude aux chemins de fer by Pierre Schaeffer is recorded
- Black Coffee by written by Sonny Burke, the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Births
Tee Scott - Catherine Breillat - Ian McEwan - Martin Hannett - William Gibson - Francis Grasso - Glenn Branca - Catherine Millet - Eric Fischl
- Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist
- John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
- Rick James, American Motown performer (d. 2004)
- Alice Cooper, American hard rock singer and musician
- Barbara Hershey, American actress
- Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American film actress
- Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and author (d. 2002)
- Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer
- Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
- James Ellroy, American writer
- Eddy Grant, Guyanese British singer and musician
- Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and actor
- Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
- Terry Pratchett, English comic fantasy and science fiction author (d. 2015)
- Joe Esposito, American singer-songwriter
- Steve Winwood, English rock singer
- Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
- Leo Sayer, English rock musician
- Stevie Nicks, American rock singer and songwriter
- Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
- Nathalie Baye, French film, television and stage actress
- Cat Stevens, born Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam, British singer, musician
- Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
- Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
- Fred Hampton, American activist (d. 1969)
- John Martyn, born Iain McGeachy, British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009)
- Jeremy Irons, English actor
- Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman and murder victim (d. 1995)
- Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
- Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
- Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
- Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor and film producer
- Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
- Gérard Depardieu, French actor
- Joe Dallesandro, American model and actor
- Donna Summer, African-American singer and actress (d. 2012)
Deaths
Antonin Artaud - Sergei Eisenstein - Kurt Schwitters
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