1948 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1949 ,
1950 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- A plane carrying the Torino team crashes into a mountain on May 4 , killing everyone on board. Of the entire squad, only one player (who didn't fly, due to injury) survived, as well as potential signing Ladislao Kubala , who was due to fly but did not, due to his son's ill health.
- January 6 — Michael Boit , Kenyan track and field athlete
- January 17 — Dick Nanninga , Dutch football player
- January 23 — Tom Forsyth , Scottish football player
- January 23 — Per Røntved , Danish football player
- January 31 — Ruben Pagnanini , Argentine football player
- February 1 — Franco Causio , Italian football player
- February 5 — Manuel Orantes , Spanish tennis player
- February 7 — Ricardo Cabot , Spanish field hockey player
- February 21 — Ronnie Hellström , Swedish football goalkeeper
- March 2 — JPR Williams , Welsh rugby union player
- March 6 — Martin Buchan , Scottish football player
- March 8 — Teófilo Cubillas , Peruvian football player
- March 8 — Karel Lismont , Belgian marathon runner
- March 24 — Ruud Krol , Dutch football player and coach
- March 28 — Ronnie Ray Smith , American track and field athlete
- April 15 — Trevor Smith , Australian field hockey player
- April 16 — Sandy Hawley , Canadian jockey
- April 17 — Heini Hemmi , Swiss alpine skier
- April 28 — Alan Chesney , New Zealand field hockey player
- April 29 — Eddie Hart , American track and field athlete
- May 1 — Margo Miller , American fencer
- May 7 — Michael Peter , German field hockey player
- May 12 — Tim Crooks , British rower
- May 16 — Paul Ackerley , New Zealand field hockey player and coach
- May 29 — Wilhelm Kreuz , Austrian football player
- May 29 — Leonid Pavlovski , Soviet field hockey player
- June 5 — Arthur Borren , Dutch-born field hockey from New Zealand
- June 7 — Lou Macari , Scottish football player
- June 8 — Hildegard Falck , German 800m runner
- June 20 — Paul Shaw , Canadian trap shooter
- July 11 — Emerson Leao , Brazilian football goalkeeper
- July 13 — Helena Fibingerova , Czech shot putter
- July 16 — Robert Proctor , Australian field hockey player
- July 18 — Jennifer McDonald , New Zealand field hockey player
- July 19 — Marcello Fiasconaro , Italian athlete
- July 21 — Ludmila Smirnova , Soviet figure skater
- July 22 — Lasse Viren , Finnish track and field athlete
- August 22 — Diana Nyad , American swimmer
- August 26 — John Baldwin , American light middleweight boxer
- August 28 — Roy Andersson , Swedish football player
- August 28 — Conny Torstensson , Swedish football player
- September 9 — John Curry , British figure skater (d. 1994 )
- September 12 — Irina Rodnina , Russian figure skater
- September 25 — Jeff Borowiak , American tennis player
- September 27 — Mike Schmidt , Baseball Hall of Famer
- October 20 — Valery Borzov , Soviet track and field athlete
- October 20 — Wayne Collett , American 400m runner
- October 21 — Laszlo Nagy , Hungarian football player
- October 24 — Betulio Gonzalez , Venezuelan boxer
- October 28 — Bruce Jenner , American decathalete
- November 3 — Roswitha Krause , Soviet swimmer
- November 6 — Malcolm Poole , Australian field hockey player
- November 17 — Thomas Lionel Hill , American hurdler
- November 17 — Michael Wenden , Australian swimmer
- November 20 — Juha Mieto , Finnish skier
- November 23 — Olle Nordin , Swedish football player
- December 3 — John Akii-Bua , Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997 )
- December 12 — Ricardo Luis Carreras , American bantamweight boxer
- December 14 — Nasser Hejazi , Iranian football goalkeeper
- December 19 — Claudia Kolb , American breast stroke swimmer
- December 21 — Daniel Killer , Argentine football player
- December 31 — Bruce Davidson , American equestrian
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