** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

** Herbert Marcuse –

** Herbert Block

** Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.

** Don Herbert, American television personality ( Mr. Wizard ) ( d. 2007 )

** Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor ( d. 2012 )

** Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor ( d. 1989 )

** Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor ( d. 2011 )

** Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.

** U. S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on " Super Tuesday ".

** At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA.

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

** Herbert Zangs, German artist

** Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2001 )

** Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international, grandfather of Kerry Packer ( b. 1874 )

** Herbert Biberman, Jewish-American screenwriter and film director ( b. 1900 )

** Frank Herbert, American author ( b. 1920 )

** U. S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations.

** Robert Herbert McElroy, Canadian politician and merchant ( d. 1920 )

** Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter ( b. 1905 )

** Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1872 )

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

** Henry Herbert, English official ( d. 1673 )

** Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian ( d. 1682 )