1928 in the United States

6th Pan-American Conference opens in Havana. Calvin Coolidge becomes the last sitting U.S. President until 2016 to visit Cuba.

Thornton Dial, artist (born 1928)

January 7 – William Peter Blatty, novelist and screenwriter (died 2017)

Albert Brewer, politician; 47th Governor of Alabama (1968–1971) (b. 1928)

Dan Rostenkowski, politician from Illinois (died 2010)

January 24 – Pernell Roberts, actor (b. 1928)

Vic Damone, born Vito Rocco Farinola, singer (died 2018)

Vic Damone, singer and actor (b. 1928)

Dorothy Donnelly, actress and songwriter (born 1880)

January 28 – Dorothy Donnelly, actress and lyricist (d. 1928)

March 20 – Fred Rogers, educator, minister, songwriter, writer and television host (died 2003)

February 27 – Fred Rogers, educator, minister, songwriter, writer, and television host. (b. 1928)

Maya Angelou, African American poet and novelist (died 2014)

February 10 – Shirley Temple, actress, diplomat, and wife of John Agar (b. 1928)

May 8 – Robert Conley, journalist (died 2013)

Barbara Werle, actress and singer (b. 1928)

October 7 – Herb Rich, football player (died 2008)

February 21 – Ben Chapman, actor (b. 1928)

January 12 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (born 1895)

March 27 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (electrocuted 1928)

January 1 – Loie Fuller, dancer (born 1862)

January 15 – Loie Fuller, dancer (died 1928)

March 10 – James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (died 1998)

April 23 – James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (born 1928)

April 2 – Theodore William Richards, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1868)

January 31 – Theodore William Richards, chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914 (died 1928)

May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, labor leader (born. 1869)

April 2 – Hughie Jennings, baseball player (died 1928)

July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, film director (died 1999)

March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor, died in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (b. 1928)

June 19 – Elizabeth Connelly, politician (died 2006)

Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)

August 6 – Andy Warhol, leading figure in the visual art movement pop art (died 1987)

February 22 – Andy Warhol, leading figure in the visual art movement pop art, (born 1928)

January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (born 1876)

December 12 – Alvin Kraenzlein, hurdler (died 1928)

April 25 – Floyd Bennett, aviator (born 1890)

October 25 – Floyd Bennett, aviator and explorer (died 1928)

Warner B. Bayley, admiral (born 1845)

September 9 – Warner B. Bayley, admiral (died 1928)

June 6 – John D. Works, U.S. Senator from California from 1911 to 1917 (born 1847)

March 29 – John D. Works, United States Senator from California from 1911 till 1917. (died 1928)

December 11 – Lewis Latimer, inventor (born 1848)

September 4 – Lewis Howard Latimer, African American inventor (died 1928)

1928 in American television

1928 in the United States

List of American films of 1928

1928 in the United States

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