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 – Philip Levine, American poet

It was subsequently placed in the middle of several spiral representations of the periodic system for classifying the chemical elements, such as those of Charles Janet ( 1928 ), E. I. Emerson ( 1944 ), John D. Clark ( 1950 ) and in Philip Stewart's Chemical Galaxy ( 2005 ).

The 1928 publication of Philip Nolan's original Buck Rogers story, Armageddon 2419, in Amazing Stories was a landmark event.

* March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author ( b. 1928 )

* In Buck Rogers first book, Armageddon 2419, ( 1928 ), by Philip Francis Nowlan the enemy ships used " repellor beams " for support and propulsion.

In 1928, America's most famous march composer and conductor, John Philip Sousa, presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the State Song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the Cavalry, the Spanish, and the Mexican.

Sir Edmund William Gosse CB ( 21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928 ) was an English poet, author and critic ; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.

Philip Francis Nowlan's novella Armageddon 2419 A. D., which first appeared in the August 1928 and was the start of the long-lasting popular Buck Rogers series, depicted a future America which had been occupied and colonised by cruel invaders from China, which the hero and his friends proceed to fight and kill wholesale.

Philip Ernest Converse ( born 1928 ) is an American political scientist.

* Philip Geoffrey Morris, 2nd Baron Morris of Kenwood ( 1928 – 2004 )

* In 1934, an eponymous film adaptation directed for RKO Studios by Philip Moeller ( based upon the 1920 novel and 1928 play ), starring Irene Dunne as Countess Ellen Olenska and John Boles as Newland Archer.

* the pen name of Philip K. Dick ( 1928 – 1982 )

* Philip Levine ( 1928 -), poet

In 1928, the American branch became independent, and was bought by Philip Morris in 1958.

Born as Philip Lloyd-Graeme, he was the younger son of Lieutenant-Colonel Yarburgh George Lloyd-Greame, of Sewerby House, Bridlington, Yorkshire ( 1840 – 1928 ) by his wife Dora Letitia O ' Brien, d. of the Right Reverend James Thomas O ' Brien, Bishop of Ossory.

Armageddon 2419 A. D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories.

In 1928, Wright was elected at a by-election as Conservative Member of Parliament for Tavistock following the death of the sitting MP Philip Kenyon-Slaney.

The band was part of the welcoming group when John Philip Sousa visited Los Angeles in 1928, and were directed by Sousa in the performance of Stars and Stripes Forever.

Through the 19th century, a roll call of legendary actors ' names all but drown out the plays in which they appear: Sarah Siddons ( 1755 — 1831 ), John Philip Kemble ( 1757 — 1823 ), Henry Irving ( 1838 — 1905 ), and Ellen Terry ( 1847 — 1928 ).

William Philip (" Phil ") Cathcart Davies ( born 6 August 1928 ), played rugby union at centre for Evesham RUFC, Cheltenham RUFC, Cambridge University, Harlequins, England and the British Lions

Philip Jones CBE ( 12 March 1928 – 17 January 2000 ) was a British trumpeter and leader of an internationally famous brass chamber music ensemble.

Night Hostess is a play written by Philip Dunning that premiered on Broadway on September 12, 1928 at the Martin Beck Theatre.

The theory of instrumental variables was first derived by Philip G. Wright in his 1928 book The Tariff on Animal and Vegetable Oils.

Philip Fisher's career began in 1928 when he dropped out of the newly created Stanford Graduate School of Business ( later he would return to be one of only three people ever to teach the investment course ) to work as a securities analyst with the Anglo-London Bank in San Francisco.