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

* Richard Reti vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Berlin 1928, NimzoIndian Defence ( E38 ), 0 – 1 Two of the top hypermoderns cross swords to showcase their latest ideas.

* Richard von Mises, Probability, Statistics, and Truth, 1939 ( German original 1928 )

* 1928 – Richard G. Scott, LDS Apostle

* Richard Butler ( author ) ( 1844 – 1928 ), British dramatist

* Richard Aldington: Selected Critical Writing, 1928 – 1960 ( 1970 ) edited by Alister Kershaw

Their marriage produced two children: a son, Richard Hulbert, born in 1923, and a daughter, Gwen, born in 1928.

* In 1928, Richard Strauss wrote the German opera Die ägyptische Helena, The Egyptian Helena, which is the story of Helen and Menelaus's troubles when they are marooned on a mythical island.

* Richard M. Sherman ( born 1928 ), American songwriter, half of the Sherman Brothers

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

The community got its name from the Little America motel which was purposefully located in a remote location as a haven, not unlike the base camp the polar explorer Richard E. Byrd set up in the Antarctic in 1928.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

* Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen

While living in Oregon, they had two sons, Richard David ( born October 13, 1928 ) and Garner Ted ( born February 9, 1930 ).

* Richard Strauss-Die ägyptische Helena premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 6 June 1928.

A Fairchild aircraft, the Virginia, was taken as one of three aircraft by Richard E. Byrd on his 1928 – 1929 expedition to the South Pole.

* Richard Colvin Cox ( born 1928 ), American West Point cadet who disappeared in 1950

After her father's death, her mother moved to Cleveland, Ohio, leaving her to be reared by foster parents, Emma ( 1866 – 1951 ) and Richard D. Fulks ( 1862 – 1928 ), the chief of detectives in Saint Joseph.

* C. l. dakhlae ( Richard Meinertzhagen, 1928 ) is confined to the two oases in central Egypt.

* Richard von Mises, Wahrscheinlichkeit, Statistik und Wahrheit, 1928 ( Probability, Statistics, and Truth, New York: Macmillan company, 1939 )

The couple married in 1916 and had three children: Ingeborg Caroline Auguste Seyss-Inquart ( born 18 September 1917 ), Richard Seyss-Inquart ( born 22 August 1921 ) and Dorothea Seyss-Inquart ( born 7 May 1928 ).

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.

In 1928, he acted as campaign manager for the Prime Minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland, Sir Richard Squires.

Richard Felton Outcault ( January 14, 1863 – September 25, 1928 ) was an American comic strip writer-artist.