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 – 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

Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( born 27 August 1928 ) is a South African Zulu politician who founded the Inkatha Freedom Party ( IFP ) in 1975.

Mangosuthu ( born Gatsha ) was born on 27 August 1928, in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu, to Chief Mathole Buthelezi and Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu, the sister of King Solomon kaDinuzulu.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, politician and a Zulu prince ( 1928 – )

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

* 1928 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician

It's said that the Dutch Tricolor has inspired many flags but most notably those of Russia, New York City, and South Africa ( the 1928 – 94 flag as well the current flag ).

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Irving Thalberg of M-G-M invited Flaherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas ( 1928 ) in collaboration with W. S. Van Dyke, but their talents proved an uncomfortable fit, and Flaherty resigned from the production.

* White Shadows in the South Seas ( 1928 )

Seymour Papert ( born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa ) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator.

Union of South Africa Red Ensign ( 1912 – 1928 )

In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

* A South Sea Bubble – 1928

* William Morrison Robinson, Jr., The Confederate Privateers ( Columbia, S. C .: University of South Carolina Press, 1928 ).

He became a Member of the Reichstag for South Westphalia from 1928 to 1933 and served as KPD chairman in Berlin from 1929.

Perhaps Wrench ’ s most remembered achievement as editor of The Spectator was his campaign to ease unemployment in the mining town of Aberdare, one of the worst hit by the crisis of 1928, when joblessness reached 40 % in South Wales.

The apparent location of R ' lyeh in the Pacific Ocean | South Pacific, as described in the short story The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), by H. P. Lovecraft.

Van Dyke's White Shadows in the South Seas ( 1928 ) and contained many elements which would later evolve into Tabu.

The current flag of the Republic of South Africa was adopted on 27 April 1994, at the beginning of the 1994 general election, to replace the flag that had been used since 1928.

* South Africa ( 1928 – 1994 ).

The neighborhood's Cambridge Lawns Historic District, some 30 homes in the Tudor Revival and Mediterranean revival style completed in 1928, were granted historic recognition by the City of South Miami in 2005.

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 ).

Two books published posthumously in her husband's name, The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Gen ' l George E. Pickett ( published in 1913 ) and Soldier of the South: General Pickett's War Letters to His Wife ( 1928 ), have been described as " unreliable works that were fictionalized by Pickett's wife.

He was the son of Count André de Laborde de Monpezat ( Mont-de-Marsan, 6 May 1907 – Le Cayrou, 23 February 1998 ) and his wife, Renée Doursenot ( Périgueux, 26 October 1908 – Le Cayrou 11 February 2001 ), ( married religiously Cahors, 6 January 1934 and civilly Cahors 22 January 1948 ), who was previously married firstly civilly in Paris on 29 September 1928 and divorced at the Tribunal Civil Français de Saigon on 21 September 1940 Louis Leuret ( Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 18 March 1881 – Saigon, South Vietnam, 29 December 1962 ).

They include Minnesota v. Barber, 136 U. S. 313, ( 1890 ) ( striking down a Minnesota statute that required any meat sold within the State, whether originating within or without the State, to be examined by an inspector within the State ); Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel, 278 U. S. 1 ( 1928 ) ( striking down a Louisiana statute that forbade shrimp to be exported unless the heads and hulls had first been removed within the State ); Johnson v. Haydel, 278 U. S. 16 ( 1928 ) ( striking down analogous Louisiana statute for oysters ); Toomer v. Witsell, 334 U. S. 385 ( 1948 ) ( striking down South Carolina statute that required shrimp fishermen to unload, pack, and stamp their catch before shipping it to another State ); Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., supra ( striking down Arizona statute that required all Arizona-grown cantaloupes to be packaged within the State prior to export ); South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke, 467 U. S. 82 ( 1984 ) ( striking down an Alaska regulation that required all Alaska timber to be processed within the State prior to export ).