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 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

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 ).

In 1928 Georg, Count von Carlow, morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg and commoner Natalia Vanljarskaya, became duke of Mecklenburg and heir to his uncle Duke Charles Michael.

* Michael Howard ( fencer ) ( born 1928 ), British Olympic fencer

* Joseph Jackson, born in Fountain Hill, 1928, father of the King of Pop Michael Jackson.

It entered into long term relationships with British manufacturers, and sold clothes and food under the " St Michael " brand, that was introduced 1928 ).

He was the brother of director Michael O ' Herlihy ( 1928 – 1997 ) and the father of actor Gavan O ' Herlihy, visual artist Olwen O ' Herlihy, and architect Lorcan O ' Herlihy.

* Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1928 ), edited by Michael Squires, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-521-22266-4.

* Karl Michael Vogler, an actor, was born in Remscheid in 1928.

It was under this constitutional framework that Michael Hainisch and Wilhelm Miklas assumed office on 9 December 1920 and 10 December 1928, respectively.

In the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 1st Trinity managed to successfully defend the coxless-fours title ( Richard Beesly, Edward Bevan, John Lander, Michael Warriner ), with the United States getting silver and Italy receiving bronze.

The book formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of any work of Christie's when the play, Alibi, adapted by Michael Morton, opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on May 15, 1928.

* † Michael Joseph Crane ( 1921 – 1928 )

Veteran MP Timothy Michael Healy was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1928 ), an enlightened choice to bridge the gap between the old order and the new generation of Cumann na nGaedheal politicians, although highly partisan ( his nephew was Minister for Justice Kevin O ' Higgins ; Healy made a public attack on Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera, which led to republican calls for his resignation ).

St Michael was a brand that was owned and used by Marks & Spencer ( M & S ) from 1928 until 2000.

The brand was introduced by Simon Marks in 1928, after his father and co-founder of Marks & Spencer, Michael Marks.

Edward Michael " Mike " Harrington ( February 24, 1928 – July 31, 1989 ) was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Michael Harrington was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 24, 1928, to an Irish-American family.

* MacDonagh, Michael: The Life of William O ' Brien, the Irish Nationalist, Ernst Benn London ( 1928 )

* Fergus Michael Claude Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ( 1928 – 1987 )-grandson of the 14th Earl, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and of the 16th Earl

******* Michael R. Paine b. June 25, 1928, NYC, m. Ruth Hyde Paine, Oswald family benefactors in whose garage family friend Lee Harvey Oswald stored his rifle and in whose home Marina Oswald lived

Michael Cottrell Brain ( b. 1928 )

* Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan ( 1928 – 2007 ), Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life