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

* 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver ( b. 1928 )

In 1928, he was remarried, in Woerden, to the raffish actress Johanna Theresia Oerlemans ( also known under her stage name Jo van Walraven ), with whom he had been living for the past three years.

Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

* December 28 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina ( d. 1928 )

After two months of planning, in 1928 Ravel made a four-month concert tour in North America, for a promised minimum of $ 10, 000 ( approximately $, adjusted for inflation ).

This presidency ended in 1928 when the Northern Expedition, led by the Kuomintang ( KMT ), succeeded in conquering North China.

The first, less aggressive strain of the disease fungus, Ophiostoma ulmi, arrived in Europe from the Far East in 1910, and was accidentally introduced to North America in 1928, but was steadily weakened by viruses and had all but disappeared in Europe by the 1940s.

14 people died in the 1928 Thames flood, and after 307 people died in the UK in the North Sea Flood of 1953 the issue gained new prominence.

The North African Party broke from the PCF in 1928, before being dissolved in 1929 at Paris's demand.

By making the trip in August 1928, Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back.

Restoration Island is a national park in Far North Queensland, Australia, 1928 km northwest of Brisbane and a few hundred metres from Cape Weymouth and the Iron Range National Park.

In 1928 Murphey bought a tract of land north of River Road between North Oracle Road and Sabino Canyon in a federal land auction.

This area was the site of the worst effects of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, the first recorded Category 5 hurricane in the North Atlantic and still one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the US.

Portions of the township were taken to form Cape Island Borough ( March 8, 1848, now known as Cape May city ), Cape May Point borough ( created April 19, 1878, restored to Lower Township on April 8, 1896, recreated April 6, 1908 ), Holly Beach ( April 14, 1885, now part of Wildwood city ), South Cape May ( August 27, 1894, restored to Lower Township after the borough was dissolved on April 30, 1945 ), Wildwood Crest ( April 6, 1910 ) and North Cape May ( March 19, 1928, restored to Lower Township after it was dissolved on April 30, 1945 ).

North Cape May had existed as an independent borough, formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1928, from portions of Lower Township.

The town was founded by John William Wood Sr. ( December 28, 1855-October 31, 1928 ) who rode to it each morning on a mule and wagon from his home at Peacocks Crossroads near Meadow, North Carolina.

It was manufactured in 1928 by the Spillman Manufacturing Company of North Tonawanda, New York.

* Airship Italia, a semi-rigid airship used in a series of flights around the North Pole in 1928

* Angus McLean ( 1870 – 1935 ) – Governor of North Carolina 1924 – 1928.

Duncan McLauchlin " Lauch " Faircloth ( born January 14, 1928 ), served one term as a Republican U. S. Senator from North Carolina.

* Ophiostoma ulmi, which afflicted Europe from 1910, reaching North America on imported timber in 1928.

On the island of Vadsøya is the airship mast used by Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen for their expedition over the North Pole with the airship Norge in 1926, and used again on Nobile's flight with the airship Italia in 1928.

In January 1928, the high school moved to North 23 and B street, leaving the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades to make up the junior high.

The club saw their first relegation during the 1928 – 29 season, going from the Second Division to the Third Division North.

* North American Aviation, Inc., an aircraft manufacturer from 1928 to 1967 commonly referred to as " North American "