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Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. This was the last year that the Julian calendar was used and by 1 January 1929, every state in the entire world had adopted the Gregorian calendar. Events January February March April - April – The last section (wise – wyze) of the original Oxford English Dictionary is completed and ready for publication (OED (1933, 1978 vol. 1, pp. xxv, xxvl)
- April 10 – "Pineapple Primary": The U.S. Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
- April 12 – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17 bystanders.
- April 12–April 14 – The first ever east–west transatlantic aeroplane flight takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using German Junkers W33 Bremen.
- April 14 – Two earthquakes in Chirpan and Plovdiv, in Bulgaria, destroy more than 21,000 buildings and kill almost 130 persons.
- April 22 – An earthquake destroys 200,000 buildings in Corinth.
- April 28 – 28 inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania.[3]
May June July August September October November - November 4 – At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
- November 6
- November 10 – Enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor Hirohito is held, after some two years since he actually took the Imperial throne on December 26, 1926, the following day of the demise of Emperor Taish .
- November 12 – The SS Vestris developed a severe starboard list, was abandoned and sank approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA. Estimates of the dead vary from between 110-127.
- November 17 – The Boston Garden opens in Boston.
- November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film.
- November 22 – Maurice Ravel's Bol ro premieres at the Paris Op ra.
December Date unknown Births January - January 2
- January 5
- January 6 – George H. Ross, American businessman
- January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American writer (The Exorcist)
- January 9 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994)
- January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet
- January 11 – David L. Wolper, American television producer (d. 2010)
- January 15 – Joanne Linville, American actress
- January 16 – William Kennedy, American author
- January 17
- January 22 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (d. 2004)
- January 23
- January 24
- January 25 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgean politician, former president
- January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
- January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
- January 30 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
February March April - April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
- April 2
- April 4
- April 6 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 7
- April 8 – Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
- April 9 – Tom Lehrer, American songwriter (We Will All Go Together When We Go)
- April 12 – Jean-Fran ois Paillard, French conductor
- April 14 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
- April 17 – Cynthia Ozick, American writer
- April 19
- April 20 – Robert Byrne, American chess player
- April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
- April 25 – Cy Twombly, American artist
- April 28 – Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962)
May June - June 1
- June 3 – Donald Judd, American artist (d. 1994)
- June 10 – Maurice Bernard Sendak, American children's author/illustrator (d. 2012)
- June 11 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Queen consort of King Baudouin of Belgium
- June 12 – Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
- June 13 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- June 14 – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna aka Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967)
- June 19 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
- June 20 – Eric Dolphy, American Jazz musician (d. 1964)
- June 25 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 26
- June 28
- June 29 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French writer
July - July 2 – Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr., American Korean War fighter ace and test pilot (d. 1958)
- July 4 – Teofisto Guingona, Jr., 13th Vice President of the Philippines
- July 5
- July 6 – Nestor de Villa, Filipino actor (d. 2004)
- July 9 – Federico Bahamontes, Spanish road bicycle racer
- July 10 – Moshe Greenberg, American Bible scholar (d. 2010)
- July 11 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
- July 12 – Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 13
- July 16 – Robert Sheckley, American writer (d. 2005)
- July 18 – Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch poet and writer (d. 2009)
- July 25
- July 26
- July 29 – Philippe B r, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop
- July 30 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- July 31 – Gilles Carle, Canadian film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
August - August 3 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor
- August 5 – Bogdan Maglich, American physicist
- August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- August 7 – James Randi, Canadian-American magician
- August 8
- August 9 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player
- August 10
- August 12 – Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- August 15 – Nicolas Roeg, English film director
- August 17 – Willem Duys, Dutch radio and television presenter, tennis player and music producer (d. 2011)
- August 19 – Queen Ratna of Nepal
- August 18 – Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (d. 2004)
- August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- August 25 – Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 26 – Zden k Veselovsk , Czech zoologist (d. 2006)
- August 31
September - September 3 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
- September 4 – Dick York, Bewitched character (d. 1992)
- September 5
- September 6
- September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007)
- September 11 – William X. Kienzle, American author (d. 2001)
- September 12 – M. V. Rajasekharan, Indian member of Rajya Sabha
- September 13 – Robert Indiana, American contemporary artist
- September 15 – Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
- September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman)
- September 20
- September 22 – James Lawson, African-American civil rights activist and minister
- September 28 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
- September 30 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October - October 1 – George Peppard, American actor (The A-Team) (d. 1994)
- October 7
- October 8 – Bill Maynard, British actor
- October 9 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
- October 10 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (d. 2009)
- October 15 – Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer
- October 20 – Li Peng, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
- October 21
- October 23 – Johnny Kitagawa, American-born Japanese businessman in the entertainment industry
- October 24 – Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (d. 1981)
- October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
November December Date unknown Deaths January–June - January 1 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)
- January 3
- January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- January 12 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (executed) (b. 1895)
- January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b.1880)
- January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ib ez, Spanish novelist and screenwriter(b. 1867)
- January 29 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- January 30 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- February 15 – Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- February 16 – Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)
- March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
- April 2 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- April 5 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- April 19 – Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847)
- April 22 – Frank Currier, American actor (b. 1857)
- April 25 – Floyd Bennett, American aviator (b. 1890)
- April 27 – Alessandro Guidoni, Italian air force general (b. 1880)
- May 8 – Clara Williams, American actress (b. 1888)
- May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, American labor leader (b. 1869)
- May 19 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874)
- May 22 – Francisco L pez Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904)
- June 4
- June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b. 1867)
- June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
- June 19 – Nora Bayes, American singer and actress (b. 1880)
- June 22
- June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, American actor (b. 1872)
July–December - July 17 – lvaro Obreg n, President of Mexico (assassinated) (b. 1880)
- July 21 – Ellen Terry, British stage actress (b. 1847)
- August 8 – Stjepan Radi , Croatian politician (b. 1871)
- August 12 – Leo Jan ek, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- August 30 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- October 5 – George Beben, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1873)
- October 8 – Larry Semon, American film actor (b. 1889)
- October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847)
- October 22 – Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)
- October 30 – Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1864)
- October 31 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (b. 1855)
- November 4 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish/American business man and gangster (b. 1882)
- November 13 – Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (b. 1850)
- November 18 – Mauritz Stiller, Finnish screenwriter and director (b. 1883)
- November 26 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863)
- December 1
- December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868)
- December 11 – Lewis Latimer, American inventor (b. 1848)
- December 14 – Theodore Roberts, American actor (b. 1861)
- December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (b. 1885)
- December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb, English co-founder of Save the Children, and champion of children's human rights (b. 1876)
- December 25 – Fred Thomson, American silent film actor (b. 1890)
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