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 – 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.

* January 20 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician ( b. 1927 )

* Gerry Clark ( 1927 – 1999 ), New Zealand sailor and ornithologist

Gerald Joseph " Gerry " Mulligan ( April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996 ) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

Gerard Salton ( 8 March 1927 in Nuremberg-28 August 1995 ), also known as Gerry Salton, was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.

The origins of the Bombers go back to 1927, churning out future NHL players such as Bobby Clarke, Reggie Leach, Blaine Stoughton, Gene Carr, Chuck Arnason, Gerry Hart, Ken Baumgartner and Mel Pearson.

Ralph Plaisted ( 30 September 1927 – 8 September 2008 ) and his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on 19 April 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole.

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 )