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

* 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter ( d. 1999 )

The pentode was invented in 1928 by Bernard D. H. Tellegen and became generally favored over the simple tetrode.

Bernard Cribbins, OBE ( born 29 December 1928 ) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2012 is still an active performer.

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

On 28 December 1928 he passed out Grade A in the top four and publicly burned his lecture notes, including those from Bernard Montgomery.

Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras on January 3, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Bernard J. Douras ( 1857 – 1935 ), a lawyer and judge in New York City ; and Rose Reilly ( 1867 – 1928 ).

One of the earliest in the series featured George Bernard Shaw Talks to Movietone News, released on June 25, 1928.

* George Bernard Shaw Talks to Movietone News ( 1928 ) at IMDB

* David Bernard Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ( b. 1928 )

* Bernard Blum, Chief Engineer, 1928 to March 1953.

* J .- M. Vidal, Bernard Saisset, Évêque de Pamiers, Toulouse / Paris, 1928.

* Bernard William Schmitt ( born 1928 ), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Henry Bernard Levin CBE ( 19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004 ) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as " the most famous journalist of his day ".

Plays on which he worked included Oscar Wilde's Salome ( 1906 ), Laurence Binyon's Attila ( 1907 ), King Lear ( 1909 ), Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady ( 1910 ), Arnold Bennett's Judith ( 1916 ), Maurice Maeterlinck's The Betrothal ( 1920 ), Shaw's Saint Joan ( 1924 ), Macbeth ( 1926 ) and John Masefield's The Coming of Christ ( 1928 ).

In 1928, she went to Paris and enrolled briefly at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, after which she spent a year in London studying fine art at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Bernard Meninsky.

: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair ( 1928 )

Freddie Ray Marshall ( born August 22, 1928 ) is the Professor Emeritus of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

( 1928 ) debate with George Bernard Shaw

Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. ( January 29, 1928 – September 19, 2010 ) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician.

By her mother's second marriage to Guy L. A. Brian, she had two half-sisters: Marie-Brigitte ( 1928 -, Countess Bernard de La Rochefoucauld ) and Patricia ( 1930 -, Madame Jacques Bemberg ).

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza is a 1928 play by George Bernard Shaw.

* 4 October – Bernard Buffet, French painter ( born 1928 )

Bernard Buffet ( 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999 ) was a French painter of Expressionism and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group " L ' homme Témoin Witness-Man ".

Fiske, a 1928 graduate of Cornell University, had worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) during the 1930s, had written for H. L. Mencken ’ s American Mercury, had corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, had written an article now considered a classic, " Bernard Shaw ’ s Debt to William Blake ", and had translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into Modern English.