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 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2011 )

The international program on Sundays commenced in 1928, with host Eddie Startz hosting the Happy Station show, which became the world's longest-running shortwave program.

* Eddie Fisher ( 1928 – 2010 ), actor and singer

* My Life Is in Your Hands by Eddie Cantor ( 1928 ) with David Freedman ; Harper & Bros.

With dominant players such as Canadian Football Hall of Famer Eddie James, the Roughriders were a perennial contender from the West, reaching the Grey Cup finals five consecutive years from 1928 to 1932, the second-longest streak in the championship's history.

* Eddie Hubble ( born 1928 ), American Jazz trombonist

Edwin John " Eddie " Fisher ( August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010 ) was an American entertainer.

Fidel " Eddie " Valdez Ramos, GCMG ( born March 18, 1928 ), popularly known as FVR, was the 12th President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998.

Happy Station Show, the international program on Sundays commenced in 1928 with host Eddie Startz.

Early players of the L-5 include Eddie Lang, and Maybelle Carter from The Carter Family, who played her now-famous 1928 model for the majority of her career.

* Eddie James – player ( FW ), 1963 ( Regina Roughriders 1920s – 1930s ; Regina Pats 1928 ; Winnipeg St. John's 1930, 1932 ; Winnipeg ' Pegs 1935 ).

* Eddie Fisher ( singer ) ( Edwin John Fisher ; 1928 – 2010 ), American singer

Eddie Foy Park at the corner of Weyman Avenue and Pelham Road in New Rochelle, NYEddie Foy, Sr. ( born Edwin Fitzgerald March 9, 1856-February 16, 1928 ) was an American actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.

The largest and most influential recording label of the time, The Victor Talking Machine ( RCA Victor after 1928 ) was a restraining influence on the development of “ sweet jazz ” until the departure of Eddie King in October 1926.

* 1862 – Andrew Fisher, Australian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1928 )

** Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1928 )

In general this conforms to the first theorem in extreme value theory ( Fisher and Tippett, 1928 ; Gnedenko, 1943 ).

Andrew Fisher ( 29 August 186222 October 1928 ) was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions.

* I'd Rather Be Blue, words by Billy Rose, music by Fred Fisher, Irving Berlin ( pub ) ( 1928 )

In 1928, despite a 8-4-1 record the Cleveland Bulldogs were sold to Elliot Fisher and its franchise was canceled.

* H. A. L. Fisher 1928 – 1932

When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to Sir George Trevelyan he implied that " Whig historian " was adequately taken as a political rather than a progressive or teleological label ; this put the concept into play.

To his family, Fisher was always called " Sonny Boy ", a nickname derived from the song of the same name in Al Jolson's film The Singing Fool ( 1928 ).

In 1928, the Fisher building was honored by the Architectural League of New York as the year's most beautiful commercial structure.

The complete list: Doc Ayers ( played through 1921 ); Ray Caldwell ( 1921 ); Stan Coveleski ( 1928 ); Bill Doak ( 1929 ); Phil Douglas ( 1922 ); Red Faber ( 1933 ); Dana Fillingim ( 1925 ); Ray Fisher ( 1920 ); Marv Goodwin ( 1925 ); Dutch Leonard ( 1925 ); Clarence Mitchell ( 1932 ); Jack Quinn ( 1933 ); Allen Russell ( 1925 ); Dick Rudolph ( 1927 ); Urban Shocker ( 1928 ); and Allen Sothoron ( 1926 ).

In Kerry Greenwood's detective series set in 1928 Melbourne, the main character Phryne Fisher has a large red open-top Hispano-Suiza.

In 1928, after he secured over 20 sales, including to New York's Daily Mirror, Fisher informed his managers at McNaught, who decided to give Joe Palooka a trial run.

On December 16, 1928, the station moved from the newspaper's offices to the Fisher Building and began its callsign, " WJR Detroit, from the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building ," which soon became famous across the country ( and is still used to this day ).

It was popularized by John Maynard Keynes in the early twentieth century, and Irving Fisher wrote an important book on the subject, The Money Illusion, in 1928.

Automobile assembly and associated manufacturing soon dominated Detroit, and the newly-minted automotive magnates built commercial and office buildings such as General Motors Building ( 1919 ), the General Motors Research Laboratory ( 1928 ), and the Fisher Building ( 1928 ).

In 1928 he married a fellow teacher at Leland College, Theodora Joanna Fisher.