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

The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac.

Their son Paul Edward Sapir was born in 1928.

* 1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor

The first Deputy-Registrar was Paul Ruegger ; after his resignation on 17 August 1928, Julio Lopez Olivan was selected to succeed him.

In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation formulated by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928.

Orwell's Paris street, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris | 5th arrondissement: " tall old-fashioned windows and dark grey leaded roofs ; not far from the École Normale Supérieure — earlier in the twenties, Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway had lived only 500 yards from Orwell's street ; Elliot Paul was then still living in his own ' narrow street ', the Rue de la Huchette, in the same arrondissement down by the river near the Place Saint-Michel ; and once, at the Les Deux Magots | Deux Magots in 1928, Orwell thought he saw James Joyce.

* Paul Simon ( politician ) ( 1928 – 2003 ), American politician from Illinois

* 1928 Paul Dirac states his relativistic electron quantum wave equation

September 1928 also saw the release of Paul Terry's Dinner Time, among the first animated cartoons produced with synchronized sound.

In 1928, he spent a few months with Paul Ehrenfest at the University of Leiden.

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

In 1928 the Missouri General Assembly authorized the creation of a Department of Forestry to which Fredrick Dunlap was appointed as State forester, and Paul Dunn made a District Forester in for the region including Carter County.

In 1928, Eagle Scout ( and Erie native ) Paul Siple was one of the first Scouts to travel to Antarctica with Admiral Richard Byrd.

Two years after the Lees ' divorce in 1928, Nora Lee resumed the surname Mellon, at the request of her son, Paul.

In 1928, while appearing with Edith Day, Paul Robeson and Alberta Hunter in the London production of " Showboat ", he married Helena Pickard.

" They included Orson Bean ( b. 1928 ), Sean Connery ( b. 1930 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Paul Goodman 1911 – 1972 ), Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Isaac Rosenfeld ( 1918 – 1956 ), J. D. Salinger ( 1919 – 2010 ), William Steig ( 1907 – 2003 ), and Robert Anton Wilson ( 1932 – 2007 ).

Cartoonist Paul Terry began his own series, called Aesop's Film Fables, in 1921 but by the time this was taken over by Van Beuren Studios in 1928 the story lines had little connection with any fable of Aesop's.

This film came two years after the Fleischers started the Song Car-Tune series in May 1924, and two years before Paul Terry's Dinner Time ( released September 1928 ) and Disney's Steamboat Willie ( November 1928 ).

Paul Sabatier ( August 3, 1858 – March 4, 1928 ), was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi.

Rittergut Neudeck, West Prussia ( today Ogrodzieniec, Poland ), presented to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in 1928

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

Only four players in major league history have reached 50 or more doubles in a season at least three times: Tris Speaker ( 1912, 1920-21, 1923, 1926 ), Paul Waner ( 1928, 1932, 1936 ), Stan Musial ( 1944, 1946, 1953 ), and Brian Roberts ( 2004, 2008-09 ).