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 – 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

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

Telford's brother Hugh, who lived in New Zealand, was asked to bid up to 190 guineas at the 1928 Trentham Yearling Sales.

Hugh Harman made drawings of the new character and registered it with the copyright office on 3 January 1928.

German was knighted in 1928, when the respect in which he was held by fellow-musicians was shown by the number of eminent musicians who attended the celebratory dinner, including Elgar, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir Hugh Allen, Sir Landon Ronald and Lord Berners.

Hugh Ambrose Jennings ( April 2, 1869 – February 1, 1928 ) was a Major League Baseball player and manager from 1891 to 1925.

Doktor Dolittle und seine Tiere ( Doctor Dolittle and his Animals, 1928 ) was based on the first of the English children's books by Hugh Lofting.

Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC ( b in Toronto, Ontario 30 Apr 1928 – d in Montreal, Quebec 1 Aug 2000 ) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.

It was opened in 1928, making it the oldest hall on the campus ( Hugh Stewart Hall has existed for longer as Lenton Hall, but Florence Boot has been designated as a hall for longer ).

# Bishop James Hugh Ryan ( 1928 – 1935 )

Canadian author Hugh Hood mentions Williamstown in his short story " Getting to Williamstown ," first published in 1928.

Vice Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas GCB, KCMG, MVO ( 27 October 1862 – 30 August 1928 ) was a British Royal Navy officer.

Hugh Evan-Thomas was born the son of Charles Evan-Thomas, who was High Sheriff of Brecknockshire for 1885 and died at Cople in Bedfordshire aged 66 on 30 August 1928.

* In Hugh Lofting's 1928 novel Doctor Dolittle in the Moon, the lunar flowers and trees are intelligent and capable of communication by using scents, the sounds of wind through branches, etc.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

* Hugh Evan-Thomas ( 1862 – 1928 ), World War I admiral

* Hugh Kerr Anderson ( Sir ) FRS, Master Gonville and Caius College: 1912 to 1928 ( 2 )

* Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue 22 April 1904 – 1928

Hugh Alden Edighoffer ( born July 22, 1928 ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon ( 1928 ) was intended to be the last of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, and differs considerably in tone from its predecessors ; the stripped down narrative does not have room for any of the sub-plots and tales previously present.

* Doctor Dolittle in the Moon ( 1928 ) was intended to be the last of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books.

Hugh Edward McElhenny ( born December 31, 1928 in Los Angeles, California ) is a former American football running back in the National Football League who played from 1952 – 1964, for the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, and Detroit Lions.