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 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

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

In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the distances to far away galaxies were generally proportional to their redshifts — an idea originally suggested by Lemaître in 1927.

Although widely attributed to Edwin Hubble, the law was first derived from the General Relativity equations by Georges Lemaître in a 1927 article where he proposed that the Universe is expanding and suggested an estimated value of the rate of expansion, now called the Hubble constant .< ref >

The best-known early flight simulation device was the Link Trainer, produced by Edwin Link in Binghamton, New York, USA, which he started building in 1927.

In 1927, cousins Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker founded a small furniture making company in their garage.

It is known as the town where Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927, and celebrates that event with Kool-Aid Days the second weekend of every August.

Vélez's notable work was Resurrection, directed by Edwin Carewe ( the previous version was realized by Carewe in 1927 with Dolores del Río ).

Another account of the Maʻdān in English was jointly published in 1927 by a British colonial administrator, Stuart Edwin Hedgecock, and his wife.

* Edwin Hughes – (" Balaclava Ned ") ( 1830 – 1927 ), the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava in the Crimea

* 1927 – 1931 Edwin Bidwell Wilson

* Resurrection ( 1927 film ), an American silent film by Edwin Carewe

Edwin Washington Edwards ( born August 7, 1927 ) served as the Governor of Louisiana for four terms ( 1972 – 1980, 1984 – 1988 and 1992 – 1996 ), twice as many terms as any other Louisiana chief executive has served.

After his death, many examples from his exceptional collection of astronomical photographs were published in 1927 as A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, this work having been finished by Edwin B.

In 1927, Edwin Balmer, a short-story writer who had written for the magazine, took over as editor ; in the summer of 1929 the magazine was bought by McCall Corporation, which changed the name to Redbook but kept Balmer on as editor.

* Harry Edwin Wood 1927 – 1941

Edwin Brock ( 19 October 1927 – 7 September 1997 ) was a British poet.

His father, Edwin Corning, was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928.

* Edwin Blake Payson ( 1893 – 1927 ), U. S. botanist

Following the near-collapse of Armstrongs in 1927 Wretham was demolished, and Saxton commissioned designs for a topiary garden representing the plan of a huge house for the site from Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson, a keen yachtsman and canoeist, lived in his last years on a houseboat moored at Oulton Broad, called " Fox ", up until the month before his death in 1927.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

Entomologists who left a mark include William Stephen Atkinson ( 1820 – 1876 ), E. Brunetti ( 1862 – 1927 ), Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher ( 1878 – 1950 ), Sir George Hampson ( 1860 – 1936 ), H. E. Andrewes ( 1863 – 1950 ), G. M. Henry ( 1891 – 1983 ), Colonel C. T. Bingham ( 1848 – 1908 ), William Monad Crawford ( 1872 – 1941 ), W. H. Evans ( 1876 – 1956 ), Michael Lloyd Ferrar, F. C. Fraser ( 1880 – 1963 ), Harold Maxwell-Lefroy ( 1877 – 1925 ), Frederic Moore ( 1830 – 1907 ), Samarendra Maulik ( 1881 – 1950 ), Lionel de Nicéville ( 1852 – 1901 ), Ronald A. Senior-White ( 1891 – 1954 ), Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson ( 1840 – 1890 ) and Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ).

* Edwin Cerio: ' Il Marchese di Pommery ', c. 1927

Edwin was married to Jannette S. Hoyt ( 1855 – 1927 ).

* Edwin England 1927 – 29