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 – Jean Collas, French rugby player ( b. 1874 )

* 1874 – Jean Collas, French rugby player ( d. 1928 )

* 2010 – Jean Constantin, Romanian actor ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L ' Arche

** Jean Barraqué, French composer ( b. 1928 )

* February 1 – Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus ( b. 1928 ) asserts that the orbits of all the planets of the Solar system were within the same 90 ° arc of the solar system on this date.

Not only was he the principal composer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, but he also collaborated with Picasso ( Pulcinella, 1920 ), Jean Cocteau (, 1927 ) and George Balanchine (, 1928 ).

* Moulin rouge ( 1928 ), directed by Ewald André Dupont-With Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray and Jean Bradin

Two men dominated this period: Jean Médecin, mayor for 33 years from 1928 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1965 and his son Jacques, mayor for 24 years from 1966 to 1990.

Embracing the Parisian avant-garde, Foucault entered into a romantic relationship with the composer Jean Barraqué ( 1928 – 1973 ), a prominent advocate of serialism.

: For the 1928 Jean Epstein version of Fall of the House of Usher, see The Fall of the House of Usher ( 1928 French film )

Jean Theodoor Toorop ( 20 December 1858 – 3 March 1928 ), better known as Jan Toorop, was an Indo ( Javanese Dutch ) painter, whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau.

The production budget was a million francs, and was financed and produced by the Vicomte Charles de Noailles ( 1881 – 1981 ), a nobleman who, beginning in 1928, yearly commissioned a film as a birthday gift to his wife, the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles ( 1902 – 1970 ), who was a renowned patroness of the arts and of artists, such as Dalí and Buñuel, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Francis Poulenc, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank et alii.

* Jean Rhys, Quartet ( originally titled Postures ) ( 1928 ): a roman à clef in which Rhys fictionalised her affair with Ford Madox Ford.

The Commanders organised within the " Russian Grand Priory ", a corporate organisation which existed under various names ; “ Association of Hereditary Commanders ” ( 1928 ), “ Russian Philanthropic Association of the descendants of the hereditary commanders of Sovereign the Order of Malta ” ( 1929 – 1932 ), " Union des Commandeurs Hereditaires et Chevaliers du Grand Prieure Russe de l ' Ordre de St Jean de Jerusalem " ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the longer “ Union ” title given above ( 1958 – 1975 ).

Einojuhani Rautavaara () ( born October 9, 1928 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.

Several other Bucharest homes result from this creative collaboration: the Maria Lambru Villa of 1928, on Popa Savu Street ; the Florica Chihăescu house on Şoseaua Kiseleff ( 1930 ); the Jean Juster and Paul Wexler Villas, on Silvestru and Grigore Mora streets, respectively ( 1931 ).

*( Jean ) Cherry Drummond of Megginch, 16th Baroness Strange ( 1928 – 2005 ) ( abeyance terminated 1986 )

In 1928 she began a collaboration with lyricist Jean Nohain ( 1900 – 1981 ) that led to considerable success for many years.

* La Chute de la maison Usher ( France, 1928 ) by Jean Epstein

While living in France he mixed with Jean Cocteau, Jean Hugo and other members of the French artistic scene and in 1928 he made his first classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc.