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

Felix Bloch published a theory of the movement of electrons through atomic lattices in 1928.

In order that the Yusupov name might not die out, the prince's father, Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston ( October 5, 1856, Saint Petersburg – June 10, 1928, Rome, Italy ), General Governor of Moscow ( 1914 – 1915 ) ( son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston ), took the surname of his wife, Princess Zenaida Nikolaievna Yusupova ( September 2, 1861, Saint Petersburg – November 24, 1939, Paris ) upon their marriage, on April 4, 1882 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

In addition, Felix was one of the first images ever broadcast by television when RCA chose a papier-mâché Felix doll for a 1928 experiment via W2XBS New York in Van Cortlandt Park.

Felix the Cat sheet music, with music by Pete Wendling and Max Kortlander, featuring lyrics by Alfred Bryan, was published in 1928 by Sam Fox Publishing Company.

In 1928, Educational ceased releasing the Felix cartoons and several were reissued by First National Pictures.

*' The Business of the Supreme Court ', by James M. Landis and Felix Frankfurter, ( New York, 1928 ).

* Luckner, Felix von, Seeteufel erobert Amerika, Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig, 1928

The concept of the Bloch state was developed by Felix Bloch in 1928, to describe the conduction of electrons in crystalline solids.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

His parents were Felix Turner Hughes ( Millstadt, Illinois, 10 November 1837 – Los Angeles, California, 19 October 1926 ) and Jean Amelia Summerlin ( Keosauqua, Iowa, 6 May 1842 – Los Angeles, California, 4 November 1928 ), who had been married in Scotland County, Memphis, Missouri on 1 August 1865.

Felix Regnault, the president of the French Prehistoric Society, visited Glozel on 24 February 1928.

* In Pat Sullivan's 1928 short Felix the Cat cartoon, " Arabiantics ", Felix performs the song on a banjo to get a harem to dance.

In 1928, Felix the Cat was one of the first images ever broadcast by television when RCA chose a papier-mâché ( later Bakelite ) Felix doll for an experimental broadcast on W2XBS.

Judge Pavy's brother Felix Octave Pavy, Sr. ( died 1962 ), an Opelousas physician, had run for lieutenant governor in 1928 on an intraparty ticket opposite the Long slate.

As Mickey Mouse was gaining popularity among theatre audiences through sound cartoons by late 1928, Sullivan, after years of refusing to convert Felix to sound, finally agreed to use sound in Felix's cartoons.

Felix Mayrowitz graduated from NYU in 1928 and enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University, also located in New York City, where he studied religion in association with the Philosophy Department.

Forefathers of today's " Blue Angels ", the three-plane " Sea Hawks " from VF-6B, the " Felix the Cat " squadron, were thrilling audiences with flight demonstrations as early as 1928.

Princess Zinaida Nikolaievna Yusupova ( September 2, 1861, Saint Petersburg, Russia-November 24, 1939, Paris, France ) married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston ( October 5, 1856, Saint Petersburg, Russia-June 10, 1928, Rome, Italy ), General Governor of Moscow ( 1914 – 1915 ), son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston.