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

Darrell Dean Johnson ( August 25, 1928 – May 3, 2004 ) was an American Major League Baseball catcher, coach, manager and scout.

* W. Darrell Overdyke ( Class of 1928, 1907 – 1973 )-historian, faculty member ca.

* Winston ; Robert W. Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot ( 1928 ) online edition

* 1928 – Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2007 )

* 1928 – Paul Johnson, British historian

In 1928 Johnson met with architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was at the time designing the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition.

* 1928 – John B. Johnson discovers Johnson noise in a resistor

* 1928 – Harry Nyquist derives the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, a relationship to explain Johnson noise in a resistor

The story of Elizabeth and Jérôme's marriage and annulment is the basis for the 1908 play Glorious Betsy by Rida Johnson Young and the two film adaptations, Glorious Betsy ( 1928 ) and Hearts Divided ( 1936 ).

* Benton Johnson ( born 1928 ), American sociologist

* Former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson taught public school in Cotulla in 1928 for one year.

They include Minnesota v. Barber, 136 U. S. 313, ( 1890 ) ( striking down a Minnesota statute that required any meat sold within the State, whether originating within or without the State, to be examined by an inspector within the State ); Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel, 278 U. S. 1 ( 1928 ) ( striking down a Louisiana statute that forbade shrimp to be exported unless the heads and hulls had first been removed within the State ); Johnson v. Haydel, 278 U. S. 16 ( 1928 ) ( striking down analogous Louisiana statute for oysters ); Toomer v. Witsell, 334 U. S. 385 ( 1948 ) ( striking down South Carolina statute that required shrimp fishermen to unload, pack, and stamp their catch before shipping it to another State ); Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., supra ( striking down Arizona statute that required all Arizona-grown cantaloupes to be packaged within the State prior to export ); South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke, 467 U. S. 82 ( 1984 ) ( striking down an Alaska regulation that required all Alaska timber to be processed within the State prior to export ).

* April 26, 1927-March, 1928 -- Major General Johnson Hagood

He was born Johnnie Clyde Johnson in Fairmont, West Virginia and began playing piano in 1928.

* Most goals scored in a season – 38, Tommy Johnson 1928 – 29

According to Dixon & Godrich, Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey were recorded by Victor on that company's second field trip to Memphis, in 1928.

The period from 1928 – 36 saw the establishment of the Johnson Motor Company / Outboard Marine ( the makers of motorised boat engines ) as an outgrowth of the original industry.

* William Percival Johnson, ( 1854 – 1928 ), Anglican missionary, translator of the Bible into Chinyanja

Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson ; April 4, 1928 ) is an American author and poet.

Marguerite Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, the second child of Bailey Johnson, a doorman and a navy dietitian, and Vivian ( Baxter ) Johnson, a nurse and card dealer.

The Elser-Mathes Cup was created in 1928 by U. S. Amateurs Fred Johnson Elser ( W6FB / W7OX ) and Stanley M. Mathes ( 7OE / K1CY ) to be awarded for the “ First Amateur Two-Way Communication Earth & Mars ”.

In an effort to turn around the company, Harry Ives relinquished his presidency in 1927, becoming chairman of the board and bringing in an outsider, Charles R. Johnson, as president, but problems continued and Ives ' largest creditor sued in 1928.