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August 5, 1948

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Notable Births

Ray Clemence

1948Ray Clemence, English footballer and manager (died 2020)[โ€ ]

Raymond Neal Clemence was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he is one of the few players to have made over 1,000 career appearances.

Barbara Flynn

1948Barbara Flynn, English actress[โ€ ]

Barbara Joy Flynn is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970โ€“1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976โ€“1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985โ€“1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986โ€“1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993โ€“1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007โ€“2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adoptive mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star.

David Hungate

1948David Hungate, American bass guitarist, producer, and arranger[โ€ ]

David Hungate is an American retired bass guitarist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge William L. Hungate. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album and Alice Cooper's From the Inside album.

Shin Takamatsu

1948Shin Takamatsu, Japanese architect and academic[โ€ ]

Shin Takamatsu is a renowned Japanese architect. After obtaining his PhD from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University in 1980, he held various academic positions: lecturer at Osaka University of Arts in 1981, associate professor at Kyoto Seika University in 1987, professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1997 and professor emeritus at Kyoto University in 2013. Takamatsu's futuristic designs often incorporate anthropomorphic or mechanical imagery.

Notable Deaths

Montagu Toller

1948Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (born 1871)[โ€ ]

Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricketer who played for both Devon and Somerset in the late 19th century. He made six first-class appearances for Somerset, all in 1897, but was predominantly a good club cricketer. In 1900, he was part of the Devon Wanderers team that represented Great Britain in the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics.

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