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 – Norman Bridwell, American author and cartoonist

** Henry Norman Rae, English merchant and politician ( d. 1928 )

* Candide and Other Romances by Voltaire ( 1928 ) translator with Norman Tealby

In 1928, Colbert married Norman Foster, an actor and director, who appeared with Colbert in the Broadway show The Barker.

Memoirs set on Capri include Edwin Cerio's Aria di Capri ( 1928 ) ( translated as That Capri Air ), which contains a number of historical and biographical essays on the island, including a tribute to Norman Douglas ; The Story of San Michele ( 1929 ) by Swedish royal physician Axel Munthe ( 1857 – 1949 ), who built a villa of that name and Shirley Hazzard's Greene on Capri: A Memoir ( 2000 ), about her reminiscences of Graham Greene.

" Logging and Pimping and ' Your pal, Jim '", is the story of Norman Maclean during the summer of 1928 ( Maclean was 25 ), while in graduate school, of working as a logger for the Anaconda Company at a logging camp on the Blackfoot River.

* Norman Thomas was the Socialist Party's candidate for President of the United States on six occasions from 1928 to 1948 inclusive.

In 1928, Negri made her last film for Paramount Pictures, The Woman From Moscow, opposite actor Norman Kerry.

Other famous Colonial alumni include the late former Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell ' 40, famous for creation of Pell grants in 1973 ; Norman Thomas 1905, the chief Socialist in the United States and perennial Socialist candidate in every presidential election from 1928 to 1948 ; noted Princeton illustrator William B. Pell 1898 ; Eric E. Schmidt ' 76, CEO of Google ; and Wentworth Miller ' 95, star of the popular TV series Prison Break.

In 1928 Norman Grubb reported to the Inter-Varsity Fellowship ( IVF ) in Britain of the spiritual decay happening at Canadian universities.

Norman Augustine Cafik, PC ( born December 29, 1928 ) is a former Canadian politician.

Unlike what has been written in many places including the book about Wellesley Aron " Rebel with a Cause ", Habonim was founded by him together with Chaim Lipshitz and Norman Lourie in 1928 in Stepney, which was the poor area of the East End of London.

The case opened on 9 February 1928 in front of Lord Hewart, with Hastings and Norman Birkett representing Mitchell-Hedges and William Jowitt and J. B. Melville representing London Express Newspapers.

The tribunal ( led by Sir John Eldon Bankes, a former Lord Justice of Appeal ) began sitting on 15 May 1928 ; Hastings, Henry Curtis-Bennett and Walter Frampton represented Savidge, and Norman Birkett represented the police.

Monty Norman ( born in London, UK on 4 April 1928 ) is a singer and film composer best known for composing " The James Bond Theme ".

Norman was born Monty Noserovitch in Stepney in the East End of London, the only child of Jewish parents, Annie ( née Berlin ) and Abraham Noserovitch, on the second night of Passover in 1928.

Sources state that Norman Clyde climbed to the peak on June 22, 1928 and that John Mendendhall also reached the summit in 1928 but the month of his ascent is not documented.

The second floor lounge is unique for its massive ceiling beams painted by members in 1928 and signed by more than 230 artists since, including Diego Rivera, Norman Rockwell, Marshall Fredericks and Pablo Davis.

In 1928 Norman Woodworth, following intense personal disagreement with the new policies of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and actions of the Society's President, Joseph Rutherford, left to create the radio program Frank and Ernest with the help of the Brooklyn congregation of Bible Students.

* Norman Carlberg, sculptor ( 1928 – )

* Norman Kendal, 1928 – 1931