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

It has been linked with the Natufians culture, a name derived from the site of ' Wadi en-Natuf ' in the Mount Carmel hills of Israel, discovered by Dorothy Garrod in 1928.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

*" Shell Shock and the aftermath of the Great War: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L Sayers ( 1928 )"

Lord Peter Views the Body, first published in 1928, was the first collection of short stories about Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers.

It stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and released by First National Pictures in December 1928.

He married socialite Dorothy L. MacReady in New York City in November of that year and by May 1928 he had his first story published.

Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, one of the most prominent songwriting teams of the era, and Harold Arlen provided the songs for the revues, one of which, " Blackbirds of 1928 ", starring Adelaide Hall featured the songs " I Can't Give You Anything But Love " and " Diga Diga Doo ", produced by Lew Leslie on Broadway.

The original members of the group were Janet Ertel ( 1913 – November 4, 1988 ), Carol Buschmann ( her sister-in-law ), Dorothy Schwartz, and Jinny Osborn ( or Lockard ) ( April 25, 1928 – May 19, 2003 ).

* 1928 – Blackbirds of 1928 ( lyrics by Dorothy Fields )

* 1928: Lina Basquette, Flora Bramley, Sue Carol, Ann Christy, June Collyer, Alice Day, Sally Eilers, Audrey Ferris, Dorothy Gulliver, Gwen Lee, Molly O ' Day, Ruth Taylor, Lupe Vélez

The group was composed of three sisters: Christine McGuire ( born July 30, 1926 ); Dorothy McGuire ( February 13, 1928 – September 7, 2012 ); and Phyllis McGuire ( born February 14, 1931 ).

The term " Natufian " was coined by Dorothy Garrod in 1928, after identifying an archaeological sequence at Wadi al-Natuf which included a Late Levallois-Mousterian layer and a stratified deposit, the Mesolithic of Palestine, which contained charcoal traces and a microlithic flint tool industry.

* In her New Yorker review of A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) Dorothy Parker, writing under the book reviewer pen name Constant Reader, purposefully mimics baby talk when dismissing the book's syrupy prose style: " It is that word ' hummy ,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

In 1928, he starred with Adelaide Hall on Broadway in the hugely successful musical revue Blackbirds of 1928 written by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, in which Robinson performed his famous stair dance.

Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson during their honeymoon caravan trip in England, 1928

* Dorothy Mead ( 1928 – 1975 ), English painter

A 1928 book called The Child in America, co-authored with his research assistant, Dorothy Swaine Thomas, includes the sentence that has become a fundamental law of sociology and known as the Thomas theorem: " If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences " ( Thomas & Thomas 1928: 572 ).

* 1928: ( with Dorothy Swaine Thomas ): The child in America: Behavior problems and programs.

Dorothy and V. T. Hamlin have lunch on a Texas beach in 1928.

The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, published in 1952, is often quoted as the earliest example, although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C. P. Snow's The Masters, of the previous year, and several earlier novels have an academic setting and the same characteristics, such as Willa Cather's The Professor's House of 1925, Régis Messac's Smith Conundrum first published between 1928 and 1931 and Dorothy L. Sayers ' Gaudy Night of 1935 ( see below ).