Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor

* 1928 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so.

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist ( d. 1987 )

* 1928 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player

* 1928 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Camilla Wicks, American concert violinist

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

* 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer ( d. 1990 )

* 1986 – Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer ( b. 1928 )

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

* 1928 – Cécile Aubry, French actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor ( d. 2012 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

* 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director ( b. 1928 )

* Bell, Alan ( 1928 ) Wookey Hole: The cave & its history.

* November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director ( b. 1928 )

* Alan Clark ( 1928 – 1999 ), politician and diarist

Robert Alan ' Bob ' Monkhouse OBE ( 1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003 ) was an English entertainer.

The couple had three children: Alan, in 1928, and twins Colette ( known as Celly ) and Colin in 1932.

* Off the Deep End ( collection of essays, 1928, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell )

* Alan Clark ( 1928 – 1999 ), British Conservative politician and author, son of Kenneth Clark

* Alan Clark ( 1928 – 1999 )-military historian, Conservative politician and diarist

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark ( 13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999 ) was a British Conservative MP and diarist.

Robert Alan Frosch ( born May 22, 1928 ), American scientist, was the fifth Administrator of NASA from 1977 – 1981 during the Carter administration.

George Alan Ashman ( 30 May 1928 – 30 November 2002 ) was an English association footballer, best remembered for some notable managerial successes.

* Alan Clark ( 1928 – 1999 ), British politician

Alan Jay Pakula ( April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998 ) was an American film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.

* Alan M. Kriegsman ( born 1928 ) Born in Brooklyn, but raised in Far Rockaway ; graduated from Far Rockaway High School ; won Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ( 1976 ), the first and thus far ( 2010 ) only such Prize awarded for writings on the art of dance.

* Alan Sawyer ( born 1928 ), professional basketball player

Number 60103 ended service with British Railways in January 1963 and was sold for preservation to Alan Pegler, who had it restored at Darlington Works as closely as possible to its LNER condition: the smoke deflectors were removed, the double chimney was replaced by a single chimney, and the tender was replaced by one of the corridor type with which the locomotive had run between 1928 and 1936.

Morgan's classmates at Quetta in 1927 and 1928 included William Slim, John Crocker, Kenneth Anderson, David Cowan, George Alan Vasey and Tommy Burns.

In 1920 Ludwig Borchardt studied the area further, followed by Alan Rowe in 1928 and then Ali el-Kholi in the 1970s.

Frederick Canning Lascelles ( 6 May 1848 – 31 December 1928 ), married Frederica Maria Liddell, a granddaughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth and had issue, including Sir Alan Lascelles.