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

During 1928 – 29 Prokofiev composed what was to be the last ballet for Diaghilev, The Prodigal Son, which was staged on 21 May 1929 in Paris with Serge Lifar in the title role.

** Serge Gainsbourg, French singer ( b. 1928 )

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg (; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991 ) was a French singer, songwriter, poet, composer, artist, actor and director.

Prokofiev, who had been working on the opera for years, was reluctant to let the music languish unperformed, and after hearing a concert performance of its second act given by Serge Koussevitzky in June 1928, he adapted parts of the opera to make his third symphony ( shortly afterwards, he drew on his ballet The Prodigal Son for his Symphony No. 4 in similar fashion ).

In 1928 Serge was expelled from the Communist Party, largely because of his protests against the Soviet Union's policy on China, and officially because of his protests over the party congress's expulsion of the Opposition.

Serge was arrested in March 1928 and spent two months in jail without charge.

While swimming at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera, July 1, 1928, he suffered a heart attack and died.

* 1928 – Jean Collas, French rugby player ( b. 1874 )

In 1928 the club applied to the Association Internationale des Automobiles Clubs Reconnus ( AIACR ), the international governing body of motorsport, to be upgraded from a regional French club to full national status.

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

* 1928 – Roger Vadim, French film director and actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter ( d. 1999 )

* 1874 – Jean Collas, French rugby player ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Pierre Mauroy, French politician

* 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Jean Barraqué, French composer ( d. 1973 )

* 1928 – Michel Serrault, French actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1928 – Capucine, French actress ( d. 1990 )

In 1928, Ribbentrop was introduced to Adolf Hitler as a businessman with foreign connections who " gets the same price for German champagne as others get for French champagne ".

* 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French film director

* 1928 – Robert Poujade, French politician

* 1928 – Agnès Varda, French director

* 1928 – Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, and screenwriter

Maginot was another veteran of World War I, who became the French Minister of Veteran Affairs and then Minister of War ( 1928 – 1931 ).

* 1928 – Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress ( d. 1971 )

Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.