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

* F. William Free ( 1928 – 2003 ), American advertising executive

* 1928 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist ( d. 2009 )

In 1928 he ran for the United States Senate and was defeated by Republican Otis F. Glenn, receiving 46 % of the vote.

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

* Blackburn F. 1 Turcock ( 1928 )-single-engine fighter aircraft

* Blackburn F. 2 Lincock ( 1928 )-single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter

* Otto F. Walter ( 1928 – 1994 ), writer

* In 1928, Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger ( from Newfoundland to the small Welsh town of Burry Port ) did so in a Fokker F. VII piloted by Wilmer L. Stultz.

* In 1928, Charles Kingsford-Smith completed the first trans-Pacific flight in another F. VII.

Into the 1960 election, Catholics and evangelicals worked against each other, as evangelicals mobilized their forces to defeat Catholics Al Smith in 1928 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.

Segovia's first American tour was arranged in 1928 when Fritz Kreisler, the Viennese violinist who privately played the guitar, persuaded F. C. Coppicus from the Metropolitan Musical Bureau to present the guitarist in New York.

The team departed Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland in a Fokker F. VIIb / 3m on June 17, 1928, landing at Burry Port ( near Llanelli ), Wales, United Kingdom, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later.

The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F. Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association.

Pacific Biological Laboratories, a biological supply house, was located at 800 Ocean View Avenue ( now 800 Cannery Row ) from 1928 to 1948, and operated by Edward F. Ricketts, who was the inspiration for several characters in Steinbeck novels.

* 8 11-2-23 F # 41. 00 " 1928 Mears & Stainbank

Theda Arnold, present ( 1979 ) Post Master has copies of the National Archives Records showing later post masters to include, S. J. Robb, 1889 ; Dement Brown, 1891 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1892 ; Benjamin F. Yoder, 1893 ; Jerome S. Rice, 1895 ; Wiliam H. Beck, 1899 ; Oscar Yoder, 1901 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1903 ; Martha A. Miskimins, 1904 ; William R. Kirlin, 1928 ; Verna Bess Coen, 1954 ( acting ); Dale E. Howery, 1956 ; Theda Arnold, 1972, up to present day.

Joseph F. Ossanna ( December 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan-November 28, 1977, Morristown, New Jersey ) was a Member of the Technical Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

From 1919 to 1928, he was confidential secretary for the Secretary of War in three administrations, to Newton D. Baker, John W. Weeks, and Dwight F. Davis.

* F. W. Wile, ed., A century of industrial progress, New York ( published for the American Institute of the City of New York ), 1928.

He and his new wife went on tour to Paris in 1928, where he played the European premiere of George Gershwin's Concerto in F at the Paris Opera, with Gershwin in the audience.

* Junkers F 24, single-engined development of G 23, 1928

* Tommy Docherty ( b. 24 April 1928 ), Scottish football player and manager ( Celtic F. C., Preston North End and Chelsea F. C.

Her parents were Lois June ( née Gouwens ; 1928 – 1973 ) and Rolland F. Bertrand ( 1923 – 1985 ).