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.

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

Miguel of Braganza (; full name Miguel Maria Carlos Egídio Constantino Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga Francisco de Paula e de Assis Januário de Bragança ) ( September 19, 1853 – October 11, 1927 ) was the Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920.

* Gabriel Vahanian (* 1927 )

* Nickname of Gabriel García Márquez ( born 1927 ), Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature

* Gabriel García Márquez ( born 1927 ), Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist

Their circle included Tamara de Lempicka who painted a famous portrait of Gabriel Constantinovich in 1927.

* Castellano García, Gerardo 1927.

Lizardo García Sorroza ( b. 26 April 1844-d. 29 May 1927 ) was President of Ecuador from 1 September 1905 to 15 January 1906.

Francisco Villagrán Kramer ( 5 April 1927 – 12 July 2011 ) was a Guatemalan legal scholar and social democrat who served as vice president under General Romeo Lucas García beginning in 1978.

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.

Marco Fidel Suárez ( 1855 – 1927 ) was a Colombian political figure.

In 1927 he returned to Colombia and, after some recitals and contributions to the Colombian journal El Espectador, he left Colombia on what would be his last trip.

The federation was founded in 1927 as a business cooperative that promotes the production and exportation of Colombian coffee.

* Marco Fidel Suárez ( 1855 – 1927 ), Colombian politician, president of Colombia

* 1858 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1927 – Randall Garrett, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1927 – Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer

* 1927 – Peter Fryer English Marxist writer and journalist ( d. 2006 )

Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928.

* 1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1859 – Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1881 – Mary Gladys Webb, English writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1997 – Martin Caidin, American aviation writer ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1876 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer ( d. 1927 )

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

* 1927 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian writer and illustrator ( d. 2005 )

In 1927 they were joined by the writer Louis Scutenaire.

" Steve " Ditko ( born November 2, 1927 ) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

* April 22 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer ( b. 1927 )

* June 22 – Benny Green, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist ( b. 1927 )

** James Goldman, American writer ( b. 1927 )

* April 27 – Hubert Harrison, African American writer, critic, and activist ( d. 1927 )

** Mary Webb, English writer ( d. 1927 )