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.

With help from Dill and White, Hoover promoted the Dill-White Bill which eventually would become the Radio Act of 1927.

* 1927 – Bill Henry, American baseball player

* August 26 – Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player ( b. 1927 )

In 1927 an upper deck was added, and in 1937, Bill Veeck, the son of the club president, planted ivy vines against the outfield walls.

* 156 Bill Rawlings 1920 – 1927

* Bill Pellington ( 1927 – 94 ), linebacker who played 12 seasons in the NFL for the Baltimore Colts.

* Bill Walsh ( born 1927 ), center who played in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

William James Perry ( born October 11, 1927 ) is an American businessman and engineer who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton.

After The Co-Optimists disbanded in 1927, Holloway played at the London Hippodrome in Vincent Youmans's musical comedy Hit the Deck as Bill Smith, a performance judged by The Times to be " invested with many shrewd touches of humanity ".

In 1927, Liberal Party politician Bill Veitch secured an alliance with Albert Davy, a former Reform Party organizer who had become dissatisfied with what he saw as Reform's paternalism and intrusive governance.

His first record, " Big Bill's Blues " backed with " House Rent Stomp ", credited to " Big Bill and Thomps " ( Paramount 12656 ), was released in 1927.

On Sunday, 10 July 1927, O ' Higgins was assassinated at the age of 35 on the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue while on his way to Mass at the Church of the Assumption by three anti-Treaty members of the IRA, Timothy Coughlin, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, in revenge for his part in the executions of IRA men during the civil war.

* August 26 – Bill Barilko, ice hockey player ( b. 1927 )

The complete list: Doc Ayers ( played through 1921 ); Ray Caldwell ( 1921 ); Stan Coveleski ( 1928 ); Bill Doak ( 1929 ); Phil Douglas ( 1922 ); Red Faber ( 1933 ); Dana Fillingim ( 1925 ); Ray Fisher ( 1920 ); Marv Goodwin ( 1925 ); Dutch Leonard ( 1925 ); Clarence Mitchell ( 1932 ); Jack Quinn ( 1933 ); Allen Russell ( 1925 ); Dick Rudolph ( 1927 ); Urban Shocker ( 1928 ); and Allen Sothoron ( 1926 ).

William " Bashin ' Bill " Barilko ( born March 25, 1927 in Timmins, Ontario – died August 26, 1951 near Cochrane ), was a Canadian hockey player of Ukrainian descent who played his entire National Hockey League career for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

* Bill King ( 1927 – 2005 ), American radio announcer

In 1927 Forbes joined with Bill Veitch ( who led another faction of the Liberals, but who had once been involved with the labour movement ) and with Albert Davy ( a well-known and highly successful organiser for the Reform Party, the traditional opponent of the Liberals ).

* Bill Fischer ( American football ) ( born 1927 ), American football player

William " Bashin ' Bill " Barilko ( March 25, 1927 – ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League career for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

After a dispute with the station in 1927, Gosden and Correll took the program's concept and announcer Bill Hay across town to WMAQ and created the first syndicated radio show in history, Amos ' n ' Andy.

On February 10, 1927, Senate Bill Number 301 established the University of Tennessee Junior College in Martin.

Sir Wallace Edward Rowling, KCMG ( 15 November 1927 – 31 October 1995 ), often known as Bill Rowling, was the 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Several future major leaguers played for the Keystones, owned by the Chicago Cubs from May 1927 until the end of 1930, including shortstop Bill Jurges and pitcher Lon Warneke.

* Bill Miller ( left-handed pitcher ) ( 1927 – 2003 ), Major League Baseball player