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 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

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

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

Grant Park holds Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain ( 1927 ), and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR ( now part of Belarus ) ( 1919 – 1922 ), the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1922 – 1927 ), the Kiev State Art Institute ( 1927 – 1929 ), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad ( 1930 ).

* 1973 – Art Pollard, American race car driver ( b. 1927 )

* Christianity and Art, 1927

The Mar-Va Theatre is a 1927 Art Deco auditorium known for its superior acoustics, and is being restored as a regional center for the performing arts.

Tom Turner has suggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's History of Garden Art which predated Christopher Hussey's positive account of Brown in The Picturesque ( 1927 ).

He was Master of Farnham Art School from 1889 to 1927 and many of his works depict landscapes of the Farnham area.

After parting with Epstein, Buñuel worked as film critic for La Gaceta Literaria ( 1927 ) and Les Cahiers d ' Art ( 1928 ).

* Art Aragon ( 1927 – 2008 ), boxer

In 1927 he received the Honorary Empire Prize for German Art and the Gold Medal of the City of Düsseldorf ; the National Gallery in Berlin acquired his painting The Bark and, in 1928, purchased his Self-Portrait in Tuxedo.

Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl, laid the foundation stone of Hawthorn's new west wing in 1927 ; by which time the establishment was known under by the joint name of The Leicester Colleges of Art and Technology.

Although Ray Johnson ( 1927 – 1995 ), considered by many as the founding father of Mail Art, never joined Fluxus, his work is aesthetically close to that of the Fluxus group ... Johnson's work consists primarily of letters, often with the addition of doodles, drawings and rubber stamped messages.

In 1927, Tian taught at the Department of Literature of Shanghai Art University.

The Fred Williams ( 1927 – 1982 ) exhibition " Fred Williams-Landscapes of a Continent " was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977.

Although, in 1927, he was the first photographer to have a solo exhibition, Kertész said that it was not until his 1946 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, that he first felt he received positive reviews on his work, and often cites this show as one of his finest moments in America.

* Renaissance-Theater on Hardenbergstraße, 1902, rebuilt in Art deco design by Oskar Kaufmann in 1927

* S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, 1927, 5½ story horizontally massed Art Deco structure

Between 1923 and 1927, he was an assistant Professor at the University of Lithuania-at first at the Chair of Art Theory and History and later at the department of Philosophy.

* Handbook of the Classical Collection, revised and enlarged edition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927.