1928

1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

 Events 
 January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Kazakhstan
 February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird sends the first television signal across the Atlantic Ocean, from London to New York
 May 7 – The United Kingdom gives equal voting rights to women by passing the Representation of the People Act.  This law allows women to vote when they are 21 years old, like men.  Before this, women could not vote until they were 30.
 June 9 – Australian flyer Charles Kingsford Smith finishes the first airplane flight across the Pacific Ocean.
 September 28 – Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
 October 2 – Josemaria Escriva starts Opus Dei.

 Births 

 January 
 January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)

 February 
 February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor
 February 22 – Sir Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer and television presenter
 February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician
 February 28 – Sir Stanley Baker, Welsh actor (d. 1976)
 February 29 – Joss Ackland, British actor

 March 
 March 5 – Diana Coupland, British actress
 March 6 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
 March 20 – Fred Rogers, American television children's program host and writer (d. 2003)

 April 
 April 7 – James Garner, American actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files)
 April 23 – Shirley Temple, American child actress and diplomat (d. 2014)
 April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager of Manchester United F.C. (1973-1977)
 April 30 – Dickie Davies, British television sports presenter (World of Sport)

 May 
 May 4 – Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2020)
 May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer and songwriter (d. 2023)
 May 23
 Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
 Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
 May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (Cheyenne)

 June 
 June 1 – Bob Monkhouse, British actor, comedian, writer and television game show host (d. 2003)
 June 14 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)

 July 
 July 12
 Sir Alastair Burnett, British journalist and television newsreader (ITV)
 Kathy Staff, British actress (Crossroads, Last of the Summer Wine)
 July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)

 August 
 August 10 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (d. 2010)
 August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)

 September 
 September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman, Family Guy)

 October 

 November 
 November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (d. 2022)

 December 
 December 1 - Malachi Throne, American television actor (d. 2013)
 December 12 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (d. 2008)
 December 30 – Bo Diddley, American rock and roll musician (d. 2008).

 Deaths 
 February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and mathematician