page_title: 1948
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Births / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Bollywood actress Hema Malini
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: October 1
  Mark Landon, American actor (d. 2009)
  Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (k. 2001)
  October 2
  Avery Brooks, American actor, musician
  Persis Khambatta, Indian actress, model (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) (d. 1998)
  Chris LeDoux, American singer, rodeo star (d. 2005)
  Donna Karan, American fashion designer
  October 4
  Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer
  Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
  October 6
  Wendell Ladner, American basketball player (d. 1975)
  Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
  October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet, essayist
  October 8
  Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004)
  Baldwin Spencer, 3rd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
  October 9
  Jackson Browne, American rock musician (Running on Empty)
  Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet, novelist
  Oliver Hart, English-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  October 11
  Margie Alexander, American gospel, soul singer (d. 2013)
  Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer
  October 12 – Rick Parfitt, English musician (Status Quo) (d. 2016)
  October 13
  John Ford Coley, American rock musician (I'd Really Love to See You Tonight)
  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
  Ted Poe, American politician
  October 14
  Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
  David Ruprecht, American actor, writer (Supermarket Sweep)
  John Otto, American politician (d. 2020)
  October 15
  Renato Corona, Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. 2016)
  Chris de Burgh, born Christopher Davison, Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter
  October 16
  Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
  Hema Malini, Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
  October 17
  Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
  Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (Superman) (d. 2018)
  Akira Kushida, Japanese singer
  Ng Jui Ping, Singaporean entrepreneur and former army general (d. 2020)
  George Wendt, American actor (Cheers)
  October 18
  Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
  Ntozake Shange, African-American playwright and poet (d. 2018)
  October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
  October 21
  Tom Everett, American actor
  Allen Vigneron, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
  October 22
  Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
  Debbie Macomber, American author
  October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman
  October 25
  Dave Cowens, American basketball player, coach
  Dan Gable, American wrestler, coach
  Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
  October 26 – Toby Harrah, American baseball player
  October 28 – Telma Hopkins, African-American actress, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
  October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress (Charlie's Angels)
  October 30 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor, satirist, and comedian
caption: Hema Malini
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