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

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

The museum opened on August 6, 2005, and is the renamed successor to the Davenport Museum of Art, which was opened on October 10, 1928, as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery.

Wasmer moved the station's studios and office across Post Street from the Davenport Hotel to the seventh floor of Spokane Stock Exchange Building ( also called the Eilers Building ) in 1928 because the fledgling station had outgrown its quarters in the hotel.

After the FRC's General Order 40 reallocated frequencies in 1928, WHO ended up sharing time on the same frequency with WOC in Davenport.

Earlier versions of the tune, a New Orleans boogie piano riff, can be heard throughout the early 30s and 40s the earliest of all being " Cow Cow Blues " from Charles " Cow Cow " Davenport in 1928.

* 1928 – Nicolas Roeg, English director and cinematographer

* 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster ( d. 2004 )

* 1928 – Charles Gray, English actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

* 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician ( Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society ) ( d. 1984 )

* 1928 – Joss Ackland, English actor

* 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress ( d. 1928 )

The Income Tax Law of 1928 introducing income tax was the first law drafted entirely in English.

* 1841 – Watson Fothergill English architect ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and writer ( d. 2003 )

* 1928 – Don Beauman, English race car driver ( d. 1955 )

* 1928 – Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist ( d. 2012 )

* 1928 – Anita Brookner, English novelist

* 1928 – Alastair Burnet, English journalist and broadcaster ( d. 2012 )

* 1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian

* 2001 – Muriel Young, English TV personality ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Bob Holness, English presenter and actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1928 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist ( d. 2009 )

In 1895, the title The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) was first used unofficially on the covers of the series and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes.

Eduard Spranger's personality-model, consisting of six ( or, by some revisions, 6 + 1 ) basic types of value attitudes, described in his book Types of Men ( Lebensformen ; Halle ( Saale ): Niemeyer, 1914 ; English translation by P. J. W. Pigors-New York: G. E. Stechert Company, 1928 ).

Ronald William " Josh " Kirby ( 27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001 ) was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside.