page_title: 1948
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: English: John Bonham - Led Zeppelin
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: May 2
  Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
  Larry Gatlin, American singer, songwriter
  May 3
  William H. Miller, American maritime historian
  Chris Mulkey, American actor
  May 4
  Jan Kantůrek, Czech translator (d. 2018)
  Tanya Falan, American singer
  King George Tupou V of Tongo (d. 2012)
  May 5
  Joe Esposito, American singer, songwriter
  Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor
  Bill Ward, English rock drummer
  May 7
  Susan Atkins, convicted murderer and ex-follower of Charles Manson (d. 2009)
  May 8
  Dame Felicity Lott, English soprano
  Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer
  May 9
  Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist, author
  Calvin Murphy, American basketball player, analyst
  May 10 – Meg Foster, American actress
  May 11
  Pam Ferris, Welsh actress
  Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
  May 12
  Steve Winwood, English rock singer (Higher Love)
  Lindsay Crouse, American actress
  May 13 – Hawk Wolinski, American keyboardist
  May 14 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-born English cricket coach (d. 2007)
  May 15
  Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
  Brian Eno, English musician, record producer
  May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
  May 17 – Penny DeHaven, American country singer (d. 2014)
  May 18
  Olivia Harrison, American author and film producer
  Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer
  May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer, actress
  May 20 – Tesshō Genda, Japanese voice actor
  May 21
  D'Jamin Bartlett, American musical theatre actress
  Elizabeth Buchan, English writer
  Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor
  Carol Potter, American actress
  Leo Sayer, English rock musician (When I Need You)
  May 22 – Richard Baker (American politician), American politician
  May 23 – Gary McCord, American professional golfer
  May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
  May 26
  Dayle Haddon, Canadian model, actress
  Stevie Nicks, American rock singer, songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
  May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
  May 29 – Michael Berkeley, English composer
  May 30 – Paul L. Schechter, American astronomer and cosmologist
  May 31
  Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize laureate
  Lynda Bellingham, English actress, broadcaster and author (d. 2014)
  John Bonham, English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
caption: John Bonham
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