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.

** Eddie Sachs, auto racing driver ( b. 1927 )

In 1977, the ODJB classic " Singin ' the Blues ", co-written by ODJB pianist J. Russel Robinson, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a landmark 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar, as Okeh 40772-B, recorded on February 4, 1927.

After purchasing the Speedway in 1927, Eddie Rickenbacker prohibited supercharging and increased the displacement limit to, while also re-introducing the riding mechanic.

He made his first recordings in 1927, with a band under the leadership of banjoist Eddie Condon and Red McKenzie: along with other recordings beginning in 1924 by musicians known in the " Chicago " scene such as Bix Beiderbecke, these sides are examples of " Chicago Style " jazz.

In 1927 Fuller acquired the " Cream Trip " from Eddie Lane-with the facilities on board to transport cream from the islands, and by the 1960s, the newly commissioned " Bay Belle " started this run.

* Eddie Sachs ( 1927 – 1964 ), an American racecar driver

Allison's company was sold to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in 1927 for $ 700, 000 after Allison moved to Florida.

*" Thinking of You " ( 1927 ): Had hit recordings in 1950 by Eddie Fisher and Don Cherry.

His landmark recording of " Singin ' the Blues ," with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang in 1927, is regarded as one of the greatest jazz performances ever recorded.

His compositions include " Trumbology " ( 1927 ), " Plantation Moods " with David Rose, " Red Hot ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '" with Fats Waller, " Barbed Wire Blues ", " Troubled ", " I Like That ", " Bass Drum Dan ", " Break it Down ", " I'm Glad ", " Choo Choo ", " Sun Spots ", " Eclipse ", " Meteor ", " Krazy Kat ", " G Blues ", " Tailspin " with Jimmy Dorsey, " Crying All Day ", " Loved One ", " Apple Blossoms " with Joe Venuti, Lennie Hayton, and Eddie Lang, " Three Blind Mice " with Chauncey Morehouse, " The Mayor of Alabam '", " Flight of a Haybag ", " Cinderella's Wedding Day ", " Runnin ' Ragged ", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke in 1927, which was released as a single on Okeh, Columbia, and Parlophone.

" Singin ' the Blues ", released by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar in 1927 as Okeh 40772-B, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1977.

From 1927 to 1934 he was A & R Director for Columbia Records, where his many productions included scores of exceptionally well performed pop songs of the day with hot jazz solos by musicians like Manny Klein, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, and Bunny Berigan, among others.

O ' Connor's story title was taken from the blues song, " A Good Man Is Hard to Find ", written by Eddie Green and popularized by the singer Bessie Smith in 1927.

In 1927 – 28, his total of 146 penalty minutes led the team and was second in the NHL to Eddie Shore's 165.

* Elmer Gross's Dance Kings ( recorded April 23, 1927, released by Silvertone Records as catalog number 5109, with the flip side " One O ' Clock Baby ", recorded by Eddie Miles )

Sudhalter, in Lost Chords, cites an example of a 1927 recording by the Goldkette Orchestra in which musicians were allowed considerable freedom, and remarks “ What, one wonders, would this performance have been if Eddie King had been in charge, and not the more liberal Nat Shilkret.