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

* So Disdained ( 1928 ) ( also published under the title The Mysterious Aviator ) ISBN 1-84232-294-X

Theodore Gordon Ellyson, USN ( 27 February 1885-27 February 1928 ), nicknamed " Spuds ", was the first United States Navy officer designated as an aviator (" Naval Aviator No. 1 ").

In 1961, Ellyson was designated the recipient of the Gray Eagle Award for the period 1911 to 1928, when he was the senior active Naval Aviator.

* January 10 – Mary Amelia Ingalls, blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. October 20, 1928 )

* In 1928, Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger ( from Newfoundland to the small Welsh town of Burry Port ) did so in a Fokker F. VII piloted by Wilmer L. Stultz.

Amelia Earhart, Los Angeles, 1928 X5665 – 1926 " CIT-9 Safety Plane " – California Institute of Technology | California Institute of Technology ( CalTech ) Aerospace model 9 Merrill-type biplane designed by Albert Adams Merrill ( Instructor in Aeronautics ); 45hp Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation | Kinner engine ; wingspan: 24 ' 0 ".

Amelia Earhart being greeted by Mrs. Foster Welch, Mayor of Southampton, June 20, 1928

Wheeler Field was the site of several major historic aviation events prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, including the first nonstop Mainland-Hawai ' i flight in 1927 ; the great Dole Air Race from California to Hawai ' i ; the first trans-Pacific flight from the U. S. to Australia in 1928, and the first Hawai ' i-to-Mainland solo flight in 1935 by Amelia Earhart.

In July 1928, Amelia Earhart accompanied Wilmer to Williamsburg where a gigantic welcome celebration was held, including Wilmer, Amelia and Lou Gordon riding through Williamsburg in aan open convertible and accompanied by state police escorts.

In its early days, because of its long runway enabling safe takeoff rolls for fuel-heavy aircraft, Oakland was the departing point of several historic flights, including Charles Kingsford Smith's historic US-Australia flight in 1928, and Amelia Earhart's final flight in 1937.

On June 17, 1928 Amelia Earhart flew from Newfoundland with co-pilots Wilmer " Bill " Stultz and Louis " Slim " Gordon in a Fokker F7 and on June 18 landed safely in Burry Port, becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

His parents were Felix Turner Hughes ( Millstadt, Illinois, 10 November 1837 – Los Angeles, California, 19 October 1926 ) and Jean Amelia Summerlin ( Keosauqua, Iowa, 6 May 1842 – Los Angeles, California, 4 November 1928 ), who had been married in Scotland County, Memphis, Missouri on 1 August 1865.

Frances was the fifth woman to fail to achieve the transatlantic flight, which was accomplished by Amelia Earhart as a passenger in 1928.

Stultz was the pilot of the Fokker Trimotor " Freindship " on June 18, 1928 when Amelia Earhart became the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic.

Mary Amelia Ingalls ( January 10, 1865 – October 20, 1928 ) was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin.

* 1928 ( June 28 ), after staying in Trepassey for three weeks, Amelia Earhart as a passenger aboard the Friendship, becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.