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 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.

A watershed event in this context was Kevin Brownlow's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon ( 1927 ), featuring a score by Carl Davis.

** Carl Stokes, American politician ( b. 1927 )

** Carl Switzer, American actor ( Our Gang ) ( b. 1927 )

In 1948, Carl Blümel published it in a monograph as The Hermes of a Praxiteles, reversing his earlier ( 1927 ) opinion that it was a Roman copy, finding it not 4th century either but referring it instead to a Hellenistic sculptor, a younger Praxiteles of Pergamon.

Pan American Airways, Incorporated ( PAA ) was founded as a shell company on March 14, 1927 by Air Corps Majors Henry H. " Hap " Arnold, Carl A. Spaatz, and John H. Jouett as a counterbalance to the German-owned Colombian carrier SCADTA, operating in Colombia since 1920.

In 1927 the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired a controlling interest in the Carl Lindström Company and thereby in Parlophone.

Carl Nielsen at his childhood home ( 1927 )

* Carl Venth, violin, concertmaster 1927 – 1931

* Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer ( 1927 – 1959 ), actor

Important publicans in the past included Johann Friedrich Gerlach from 1801 to 1834, Carl Eduard Nehse between 1834 and 1850, who brought out a map of the Brocken in 1849 and the Brocken Register ( Brockenstammbuch ) in 1850, as well as Rudolf Schade from 1908 to 1927, who considerably increased the repute and the size of guest facilities on the Brocken.

In pace with Brownlow's efforts to restore the movie to something close to its 1927 incarnation, two scores were prepared in 1979 – 1980 ; one by Carl Davis in the UK and one by Carmine Coppola in the US.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

Carl Gräbe ( February 24, 1841 – January 19, 1927 ) was a German chemist from Frankfurt am Main.

To the north of the Laemmle Building is a Spanish Colonial style building housing the Avalon Hollywood, opened on January 24, 1927, as the Hollywood Playhouse and designed by the architectural firm of H. L. Gogerty and Carl Jules Weyl.

Carl Hilding " Doc " Severinsen ( born July 7, 1927 ) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter.

Carl Burton Stokes ( June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996 ) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1927, the first patent for a motorized vehicle for traveling on snow was issued to Carl J. Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin.

There he struck up a what turned out to be a lifelong friendship with Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, who frequently mentions him in his book, American Songbag ( 1927 ).

Carl Dean " Alfalfa " Switzer ( August 7, 1927 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series ' most popular and best-remembered characters.

* Carl Ludwig Charlier: Die Mechanik des Himmels, 1902-1907, Leipzig: Veit, ( 2 volumes ) ( 2nd edition in 1927 )

It was shepherded through Congress by Carl Hayden, Senator of Arizona from 1927 to 1969.

* 1930 September 5: Carl Panzram becomes the first to be executed ( records dating back to 1927 ) by hanging at Leavenworth.

Further trips included Erik Norin's visit to the Himalayas ( 1924 – 1925 ), Erik Nilsson's visit to East Africa ( 1927 – 28 ), and Carl Caldenius ' visit to South America ( 1925 – 1929 ), and later New Zealand ( 1932 – 34 ).

* De Geer, G. ( 1927 ), Late glacial clay varves in Argentina measured by Dr. Carl Caldenius, dated and connected with the solar curve through the Swedish time scale.