page_title: 1948
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: English: John Noble speaking at Wondercon 2012 in Anaheim, California on March 18, 2012.
context_page_description: 1948 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (d. 2009)
  August 2
  Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host, author
  Bob Rae, Canadian politician
  August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
  August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
  August 13 – Kathleen Battle, African-American soprano
  August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
  August 15
  Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric, politician (d. 2018)
  George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula One engineer
  August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017)
  August 19 – Loredana Lopez, Spanish singer (d. 1996)
  Robert Hughes, Australian actor
  Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
  Deana Martin, American singer and actress
  August 20
  John Noble, Australian actor
  Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
  Barbara Allen Rainey (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. 1982)
  August 21 – Sharon M. Draper, American children's book author (Out of My Mind (Draper novel))
  August 22 – David Marks, American guitarist (The Beach Boys)
  August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet, Russian physicist
  August 24
  Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
  Sauli Niinisto, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
  Kim Sung-il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
  Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and politician
  August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor
  August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
  August 30
  Lewis Black, American comedian
  Fred Hampton, African-American activist (d. 1969)
  Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, professor
  August 31
  Cyril Jordan, American musician
  Holger Osieck, German football manager
caption: John Noble
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 50D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop 7.0", "Image DateTime": "2012:03:22 13:34:15", "Image Artist": "", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Copyright": "", "Image ExifOffset": "248", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "972", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1086", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3345", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/80", "EXIF FNumber": "4", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "800", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:03:18 11:29:33", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:03:18 11:29:33", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "51/8", "EXIF ApertureValue": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "235", "EXIF SubSecTime": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1998", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2574", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "792000/149", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "1056000/199", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}