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 – 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.

Throughout April 1927, more than people were killed in Shanghai.

In the year after April 1927, over 300, 000 people died across China in anti-Communist suppression campaigns executed by the KMT .< ref name =" Barnouin38 "> Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.

The 5th Congress ( held in April – May 1927 as the KMT was cracking down on communists ) comprised 80 voting delegates representing 57, 968 members.

On 4 April 1927, following an agreement signed between the Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España, the Spanish incumbent telecommunications operator, and the Gibraltar City Council, direct communications between Spain and Gibraltar were established.

Jacques Mayol ( April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001 ) was the holder of many world records in free diving.

After further refinements, Dopyera applied for a patent on the so-called tri-cone guitar on April 9, 1927.

Romano Scarpa ( September 27, 1927, Venice – April 23, 2005, Málaga ) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.

* Louis de Vogüé ( 4 April 1927 – 1 March 1948 )

Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as " Jakob ", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.

* John Henderson Lamont ( April 2, 1927 – March 10, 1936 )

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

* April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish president and prime minister ( b. 1927 )

* April 23 – Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American civil rights activist ( b. 1927 )

* April 22 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer ( b. 1927 )

* April 17 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist ( d. 1927 )

* April 27 – Hubert Harrison, African American writer, critic, and activist ( d. 1927 )

* April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut ( parachute failure ) ( b. 1927 )

* April 5 – In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.

* April 22 – May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700, 000 people in the greatest natural disaster in American history at that time.

The fledgling network soon needed additional investors though, and the Columbia Phonograph Company, manufacturers of Columbia Records, rescued it in April 1927 ; as a result, the network was renamed " Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System.

In April 1927, José María Acha, a director at Arenas Club de Getxo, first proposed the idea of a national league in Spain.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

The earlier telecast took place in April 1927, a month before Baird's demonstration.