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 – 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 Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect in this year ( it was first signed in Paris in 1928 by most leading world powers ).

** The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, whilst ineffective, attempted for " providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy ".

Some treaties, notably the United Nations Charter ( 1945 ) Article 2, and other articles in the Charter, seek to curtail the right of member states to declare war ; as does the older Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 for those nations who ratified it.

* 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact ( also known as the Pact of Paris )

Germany signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact in August 1928.

In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, known as the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, said:

Morrison and his followers strongly supported the movement to outlaw war that began after World War I and the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.

His most significant accomplishment however was the Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed in 1928.

When the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in 1928, Salomon walked into the signing room and took the vacant seat of the Polish delegate as well took several photos.

* Summit Conference ( 1928 ; depicts foreign ministers of France, Germany, Britain, Poland, Japan, and Italy just before they signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact )

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, the post-1945 Nuremberg Trials, the UN Charter, and the UN role in decolonization saw the progressive dismantling of this principle.

From 1925 to 1928, Pearson continued reporting on international events, including strikes in China, the Geneva Naval Conference, the Pan-American Conference in Havana, and the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Paris.

In 1928, he signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact for Belgium.

Acting Foreign Secretary in 1928 and twice chief British representative to the League of Nations, it was Lord Cushendun who signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact in August that year.

These examples of the laws of war address declaration of war, ( the UN charter ( 1945 ) Art 2, and some other Arts in the charter, curtails the right of member states to declare war ; as does the older and toothless Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 for those nations who ratified it but used against Germany in the Nuremberg War Trials ), acceptance of surrender and the treatment of prisoners of war ; the avoidance of atrocities ; the prohibition on deliberately attacking civilians ; and the prohibition of certain inhumane weapons.

In August 1928, fifteen nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, brainchild of American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the League of Nations approval of the Stimson Doctrine in 1931 were efforts designed to end the practice of coercive territorial revisionism through international law.