page_title: 1948
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1948 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Liberian President Charles Taylor
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: January 1 – Allan Alcorn, American engineer
  January 2
  Judith Miller, American journalist
  Joyce Wadler, American writer, memoirist
  Deborah Watling, English actress (d. 2017)
  January 3
  Peggy Quince, U.S. Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Florida
  Don Johnson Jr., American politician, Georgia
  Wanda Seux, Paraguayan vedette, dancer, and actress
  January 4 – Jack Wagner, American Democratic politician
  January 5
  Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
  Ted Lange, African-American actor, director (The Love Boat)
  January 6
  Guy Gardener, American astronaut
  Bob Wise, Former Governor of West Virginia
  January 7
  Kenny Loggins, American rock singer (Footloose)
  Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor
  January 10
  Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)
  Teresa Graves, African-American actress and comedian (Get Christie Love) (d. 2002)
  Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
  January 11
  Hiroshi Wajima, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2018)
  Larry Harvey, American co-founder of Burning Man (d. 2018)
  January 12
  Kenny Allen, English footballer
  Anthony Andrews, English actor
  January 13
  V. Krishnasamy, Malaysian footballer (d. 2020)
  Françoise David, Canadian spokesperson
  January 14
  T Bone Burnett, American record producer, musician
  Muhriz of Negeri Sembilan, Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
  Carl Weathers, African-American actor, football player (Rocky IV, Action Jackson)
  January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
  January 16
  John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
  Gregor Gysi, German politician
  Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
  Tsuneo Horiuchi, Japanese baseball pitcher, manager
  January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
  January 18 – M. C. Gainey, American actor
  January 19
  Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick, Canadian Ambassador
  Michael J. Jackson, English actor
  January 20
  Nancy Kress, American science fiction writer
  Jerry L. Ross, American air engineer
  January 21 – William E. Ingram Jr., Director of the U.S. Army National Guard
  January 22 – Don Gaetz, American politician
  January 23
  Katharine Holabird, American writer
  Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician
  January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
  January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
  January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor (V)
  January 30
  Akira Yoshino, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
  January 31
  Paul Jabara, American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 1992)
  Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
caption: Charles Taylor
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