1946 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1947 ,
1948 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- January 2 — Lanny Bassham , American shooter
- January 13 — Peter Sundelin , Swedish yachtsmen
- January 31 — Nolan Ryan , Baseball Hall of Famer
- February 5 — Darrell Waltrip , American automobile racer and broadcaster
- February 13 — Mike Krzyzewski , Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Famer
- February 18 — Carlos Alberto De Sousa Lopes , Portuguese long-distance athlete
- February 28 — Włodzimierz Lubański , Polish football striker
- March 6 — Dick Fosbury , American high jumper
- March 7 — Walter Röhrl , German car racer
- March 15 — Tomas Pettersson , Swedish cyclist
- March 24 — Chris Timms , New Zealand yachtsman (d. 2004 )
- April 15 — Onny Parun , New Zealand tennis player
- April 16 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Basketball Hall of Famer
- April 26 — Donna De Varona , Olympic gold medalist in Swimming , sports journalist and activist
- April 29 — Jim Ryun , American 1.500m runner
- May 27 — Branko Oblak , Slovenian football player and coach
- June 2 — Sonia Robertson and Sandra Chick , Zimbabwean field hockey players and twin sisters
- June 6 — Marion Coakes , English equestrian show jumper
- June 6 — Ada Kok , Dutch swimmer
- June 22 — Pete Maravich , Basketball Hall of Famer (d. 1988 )
- July 2 — Ervin Hall , American hurdler
- July 5 — Toos Beumer , Dutch swimmer
- July 24 — Jacques Fouroux , French rugby union player (d. 2005 )
- July 28 — Miguelina Cobian , Cuban track and field athlete
- July 28 — Elena Novikova-Belova , Soviet fencer
- August 11 — Sergey Kovalneko , Soviet basketball player
- September 14 — Ronald Riley , Australian field hockey player
- September 14 — Wolfgang Schwartz , Austrian figure skater
- September 16 — Ilona Gusenbauer , Austrian high jumper
- September 25 — Ali Parvin , Iranian football (soccer) player
- September 26 — Dick Roth , US swimmer
- September 27 — Jan Borren , Dutch-born field hockey player and coach from New Zealand
- October 6 — Klaus Dibiasi , Italian platform diver
- October 8 — Emiel Puttemans , Belgian middle- and long-distance runner
- November 1 — Rolando Garbey , Cuban boxer
- November 4 — Aleksandr Tkachev , Soviet gymnast
- November 4 — Alexei Ulanov , Soviet pairs figure skater
- November 5 — Oleg Antropov , Soviet volleyball player
- November 17 — Keith Remfry , British judoka
- December 10 — Rainer Seifert , German field hockey player
- December 10 — Sinaida Woronin , Soviet gymnast
- December 16 — Vincent Matthews , American track and field athlete
- , famed Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35.
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