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.

The Byrne Sieberlings ( 1920-30's ) sponsored by the J. P. Byrne Tire Company featured some of Central New York's greatest semi-pro ball players: George & Oscar Dear, Tommy Allen, Andy Burns, Henry " Dutch " Dotterer Sr, Don Miller ( 1927 NY Yankee ), Vic Hanson ( SU All-American ,) " Gotch " Carr, Louis " Doc " Morgan.

On October 28, 1927, Ivan " Doc " Lake, a BGSU graduate and sports editor of the Daily Sentinel-Tribune, established the nickname “ Falcons ".

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

* Doc Severinsen ( b. 1927 ), American trumpeter and bandleader

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 Frank Carver-" Doc " William Frank Carver ( 1840 – 1927 ), defeated Captain Adam Henry Bogardus, World Champion and United States Champion trap shootist, in a series of 25 matches 19 times.

William Frank " Doc " Carver ( May 7, 1851 – Aug. 31, 1927 ) was a late 19th century sharpshooter and creator of a popular diving horse attraction.

In June 1927, Doc Carver attended an Old-Timers ’ Convention in Norfolk, Nebraska, where he enjoyed reuniting with other frontiersmen.

W. F. “ Doc ” Carver died on August 31, 1927, at Sacramento, California, and was buried beside his mother and sister in Winslow, Illinois.

He was featured on banjo with the Jean Goldkette orchestra from 1922 until 1927, one of just two mainstays ( saxophonist Doc Ryker was the other ) with the Goldkette band from inception to demise.

Main Currents in American Thought ( 1927 ), 3-vol online

* 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player ( d. 1994 )

* 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – L. Q. Jones, American actor and director

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player ( d. 2003 )

* The Nomenclature of Silica by Gilbert Hart, American Mineralogist, Volume 12, pages 383-395, 1927

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer

* 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor

* 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist ( d. 2008 )

* 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Vernon Washington, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1927 – Jimmy Martin, American blugrass vocalist and guitarist ( d. 2005 )