page_title: 1948
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Births / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeremy Spencer performing at the Chicago Blues Festival 2009. Location: Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, Chicago, IL, USA
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: July 1
  Ever Hugo Almeida, Paraguayan footballer
  John Ford, English-born rock musician (Strawbs), writer of Part of the Union
  Michael McGimpsey, Northern Ireland politician
  July 2
  Mario Villanueva, Mexican politician
  Saul Rubinek, German-Canadian character actor, director, producer and playwright
  July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
  July 4
  René Arnoux, French racing driver
  Louis Raphaël I Sako, Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church
  Ed Armbrister, Bahamian Major League Baseball outfielder
  Nazmul Hussain, Indian first-class cricketer
  Jeremy Spencer, British musician
  July 5
  Tony DeMeo, American football coach, player
  Dave Lemonds, American baseball player
  Salomon Juan Marcos Issa, Mexican politician
  Lojze Peterle, Slovenian politician
  July 6
  Nathalie Baye, French actress
  Jeff Webb, American professional basketball player
  Arnaldo Baptista, Brazilian rock musician, composer
  Brad Park, Canadian NHL Defenseman
  Sid Smith, American football offensive lineman
  Eiko Segawa, Japanese female enka singer, actress
  Jan van der Veen, Dutch professional association football player
  July 7
  Jerry Sherk, American football defensive tackle
  Jean LeClerc, Québécois actor
  Jean-Marie Colombani, French journalist
  Tan Lee Meng, Singaporean jurist
  Stuart Varney, British-American economic consultant
  Luis Estrada, Mexican football league forward, Olympic athlete
  July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
  July 10
  Theo Bücker, German football manager, player
  Rich Hand, American professional baseball player
  Mick Coop, English professional football right back
  July 12
  Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
  Richard Simmons, American television personality, fitness expert
  July 13
  Don Sweet, Canadian star football kicker
  Alf Hansen, Norwegian rower
  Robert A. Underwood, Guamanian politician, educator
  Daphne Maxwell Reid, African-American actress
  July 14 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
  July 15
  Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
  Twinkle, English singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
  Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (d.2019)
  July 16
  Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer, actor and musician
  Rita Barberá, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (d. 2016)
  Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
  Jeff Van Wagenen, American professional golfer
  Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish football manager, player
  July 17
  Alan Sieler, Australian cricketer
  Doug Berry, American Canadian football coach
  July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  July 20
  Muse Watson, American actor
  Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
  July 21
  Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor
  Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
  Cat Stevens (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician
  Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
  Teruzane Utada, Japanese music executive producer, attendant
  Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian, writer
  Snooty, male Florida manatee (d. 2017)
  July 22
  Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
  Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor
  July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
  July 25
  Steve Goodman, American Grammy Award-winning folk music singer, songwriter (d. 1984)
  Tony Cline, American football player (d. 2018)
  July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
  July 28
  Gerald Casale, American director, singer (Devo)\
  Georgia Engel, American actress (d. 2019)
  Sally Struthers, American actress, spokeswoman (All in the Family)
  July 30
  Jean Reno, French actor
  Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer, musician (d. 2010)
  July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, English academic sociologist, cultural theorist
caption: Jeremy Spencer
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