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.

* 1927 – Alan King, American comedian ( d. 2004 )

* 1927 – Alan J. Charig, English palaeontologist ( d. 1997 )

* 1927 – Alan Freeman, Australian-English radio host ( d. 2006 )

He was appointed a lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge in 1927, where his 1935 lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Gödel's Theorem inspired Alan Turing to embark on his pioneering work on the Entscheidungsproblem ( decision problem ) using a hypothetical computing machine.

* When a Man Loves ( 1927 ), directed by Alan Crosland, with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello

Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ ( April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007 ) was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

" As Edward's own Assistant Private Secretary, Alan Lascelles, had told Baldwin as early as 1927: " I can't help thinking that the best thing that could happen to him, and to the country, would be for him to break his neck.

* The Acrobats ( 1927 ), a wood carving by Alan Durst

* Rear-Admiral Alan Hotham, 1924 – 1927

In 1927, the Singapore I was made famous by Sir Alan Cobham, when he, his wife, and crew made a survey of Africa, and covered about 23, 000 miles.

Alan King ( December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004 ) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants.

Alan Rawsthorne was born in Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to Hubert Rawsthorne ( 1868 – 1943 ), a well-off medical doctor, and his wife, Janet Bridge ( 1877 / 8 – 1927 ) ( McCabe 2004 ).

Alan Leslie " Fluff " Freeman, MBE ( 6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006 ) was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.

Alan, 4th Baron Inverclyde was briefly married to the actress June, who was one of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest leading ladies in the 1927 film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.

Alan John Dixon ( born July 7, 1927 ) is a Democratic politician who was elected to various Illinois state offices from 1951 to 1981 and served as United States Senator from Illinois from 1981 until 1993.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ ( 14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007 ) was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

In the 1927 British Home Championship McMullan featured twice for Scotland in a 3-0 victory against Wales ( Alex Jackson scored twice and Hughie Gallacher once ) and a 2-1 defeat to England at Hampden Park ( Dixie Dean scored twice for England and Alan Morton scored Scotland's goal ).

* May 9 – Alan King, comedian, actor ( b. 1927 )

Alan Hill wrote that Yorkshire captains ( who were usually poor cricketers ) generally deferred to Rhodes as senior professional ; for example, Arthur Lupton, captain from 1925 to 1927, " very wisely left the cricket affairs to the joint supervision of Rhodes and Emmott Robinson.

Morgan's classmates at Quetta in 1927 and 1928 included William Slim, John Crocker, Kenneth Anderson, David Cowan, George Alan Vasey and Tommy Burns.

* Charles Alan Wright ( 1927 – 2000 ), American legal scholar

Alan Seymour ( born 6 June 1927 in Fremantle, Western Australia ), is an Australian playwright and author.