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 ).

* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, a British military aeroplane manufactured ( 1927 – 1933 )

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

* 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1927 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

* 1927 – Edwin Edwards, American politician

* 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.

Agnes Nixon ( born Agnes Eckhardt ; December 10, 1927 ) is an American writer and producer.

The son of Alfred Edward Sinden and his wife Mabel Agnes ( née Fuller ), he, his elder sister Joy and his brother Leon ( born 1927, also an actor ), grew up in the Sussex village of Ditchling, where their home " The Limes " doubled as the local chemist shop.

Among Mrs. Fiske's many triumphs on the Broadway stage were Becky Sharp ( 1899, revivals 1904, 1911 ), Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( 1897, revival 1902 ), A Doll's House ( 1902 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1903, revival 1904 ), Leah Kleschna ( 1904 – 05 ), Salvation Nell ( 1908 – 09 ), The High Road ( 1912 – 13 ), Madame Sand ( 1917 – 18 ), a play about George Sand ; Mis ' Nelly of N ' Orleans ( 1919 ), Helena's Boys ( 1924 ), Ghosts ( 1927 ), Ladies of the Jury ( 1929 – 30 ), as well as her self-written plays The Rose ( 1905 ), The Eyes of the Heart ( 1905 ), A Light from St. Agnes ( 1906 ).

* William E. Simon ( 1927 – 2000 ), United States Secretary of the Treasury for Nixon and Ford.

Joan Lowery Nixon ( February 3, 1927 – June 28, 2003 ) was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.

Joan Lowery Nixon was born on February 3, 1927 in Los Angeles.

* William E. Simon ( 1927 – 2000 ), 63rd Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon.

Although the Supreme Court had ruled in Nixon v. Herndon ( 1927 ) that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited denial of the vote based on race, the first modern application of the Equal Protection Clause to voting law came in Baker v. Carr ( 1962 ), where the Court ruled that the districts that sent representatives to the Tennessee state legislature were so malapportioned ( with some legislators representing ten times the number of residents as others ) that they violated the Equal Protection Clause.

Newman also incorporates actual historical events into the album, remarking upon the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on " Louisiana 1927 " and a plea to Richard Nixon to alleviate poverty as a result of the recession of the mid-1970s on " Mr. President ( Have Pity on the Working Man )".

Main Currents in American Thought ( 1927 ), 3-vol online

* 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player ( d. 1994 )

* 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – L. Q. Jones, American actor and director

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player ( d. 2003 )

* The Nomenclature of Silica by Gilbert Hart, American Mineralogist, Volume 12, pages 383-395, 1927

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer

* 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor

* 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist ( d. 2008 )

* 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Vernon Washington, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1927 – Jimmy Martin, American blugrass vocalist and guitarist ( d. 2005 )