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

* to Athole Shearer ( 1928 – 1940 ), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks ;

* 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* September 30 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian Olympic figure skater ( b. 1928 )

However, the yo-yo would remain in relative obscurity until 1928 when a Filipino American named Pedro Flores opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California.

Her stage début, and first professional role, was as Sarah in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield in 1928.

# Barbara Ann Scott ( born 1928 ), figure skater

* Barbara Allen by Frank Luther, 1928 ( MP3 ) on Project Gutenberg

Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara, California / Salt Lake City, Utah, first printing 1928 ; second revised printing 1981, ISBN 0-87905-048-9.

Among her notable film roles were as Nurse Edith Cavell in Dawn ( 1928 ), General Baines in Major Barbara ( 1941 ), Mrs. Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby ( 1948 ), Queen Victoria in Melba ( 1952 ) and the Queen Dowager in The Prince and the Showgirl ( 1957 ) with Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, for which she was awarded the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She then returned to America in March 1926 where she retired from active work and moved to Santa Barbara in California, in 1928.

* The Valley Club of Montecito Santa Barbara, California ( 1928 ).

It was to save his farm that Chow also filed suit against the Cities of Santa Barbara and Montecito in 1928.

In 1928, Lawrence was hired as an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, and two years later he became a full Professor, becoming the youngest Professor at the University of California.

Lawrence Ogilvie was the plant pathologist from September 1923 to April 1928.

* Point Counter Point ( 1928 ) by Aldous Huxley includes easily detected portraits of Huxley's friends D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murry.

Lawrence attempted to explore human emotions more deeply than his contemporaries and challenged the boundaries of the acceptable treatment of sexual issues, most notably in Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was privately published in Florence in 1928.

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928.

John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL ( 27 April 1874 – 20 August 1941 ), known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth Governor-General of Australia.

* James Lawrence, 1928 Olympic gold medallist in men's coxed fours, rowing

Lived in by the Temple family for only two full years ( 1928 and 1929 ) as a fully completed structure, the home was leased to Lawrence Lewis, who was headmaster of a boys ' military academy, Raenford ( later Golden State ), which moved from Redondo Beach and operated at the ranch from 1930 to 1935.

In 1928, Lawrence returned to Broadway opposite Clifton Webb in Treasure Girl, a Gershwin work she was confident would be a huge hit.

Daniell appeared again at the St James's in 1928 as Satollyon in The Return Journey and in 1932 as Max Lawrence in The Vinegar Tree.

" St. Lawrence " was built in 1927, and Quebec and Tadoussac were identical sister ships of 1928.

He was one of the most successful playwrights of the early 1930s in London with star-studded West End productions of his work including Diversion ( 1928 ), After All ( 1929 ), London Wall ( 1931 ) with Frank Lawton and John Mills, There's Always Juliet ( 1931 ), Somebody Knows ( 1932 ), Behold, We Live ( 1932 ) with Gertrude Lawrence and Gerald du Maurier, The Distaff Side ( 1933 ) and Flowers of the Forest ( 1934 ).

The Blisses ’ architectural additions to the estate included four service court buildings ( 1926 ) and a music room ( 1928 ), designed by Lawrence Grant White ( 1887 – 1956 ) of the New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White, and the superintendent ’ s dwelling ( 1933 ), designed by Farrand.

He was born on April 12, 1928 in Lawrence, Kansas.

From 1928 to 1936, Landi was married to John Cecil Lawrence, and from 1943 to 1948, to Curtis Kinney Thomas ( 1905-2002 ).

Eydie Gormé ( also spelled as Eydie Gorme ; born August 16, 1928 ) is an American singer, specializing, with her husband, Steve Lawrence, in traditional pop music, in the form of ballads and breezy swing.

Donald Southam Lawrence ( 17 November 1928 – 29 December 2003 ) was a British comic book artist and author.

In the 1928 presidential election, David Lawrence worked hard for another Irish Roman Catholic politician who, like himself, had risen from the slums without the benefit of a formal education -- Alfred E. Smith.

In 1928 Richards returned to the Presbyterian Hospital and began his research on pulmonary and circulatory physiology, working under Professor Lawrence Henderson of Harvard.

The episode's title is a play on the 1928 D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Richard Lawrence Ottinger was born in New York City, the son of businessman Lawrence Ottinger, founder of U. S. Plywood, and nephew of Albert Ottinger, the Republican Attorney General of New York from 1925 to 1928.

St. James-Bond United Church, 1066 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario, was a United Church of Canada Congregation from 1928 to 2005, when it merged with Fairlawn Heights United Church ( now Fairlawn Avenue United Church ) in the Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue area.

Lawrence Joseph Hogan ( born September 30, 1928 ) was a Republican U. S. Congressman who represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1969 to January 3, 1975.