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.

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

The George Rogers Clark Council was formed by Scouts of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Scott, and Washington counties in 1927, and merged with Old Kentucky Home Council in 1993 to form the Lincoln Heritage Council, which serves Scouts in Kentucky and Indiana.

By 1927, the wealthy Harrison Williams had established himself at his estate " Oak Point " at Bayville, on nearby Pine Island.

* Philip Harrison Annesley, 11th Earl Annesley ( 1927 – 2011 )

In 1925 – 26, Fox purchased the rights to the work of Freeman Harrison Owens, the U. S. rights to the Tri-Ergon system invented by three German inventors, and the work of Theodore Case to create the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, introduced in 1927 with the release of F. W. Murnau's Sunrise.

Harrison McCain, CC, ONB ( November 3, 1927 – March 18, 2004 ) was a Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited.

* No Control ( film ) ( 1927 ), a silent film starring Harrison Ford and Phyllis Haver.

( Kant 1781 / 1991, Koffka 1935, Köhler 1971 p. 125, Russell 1927 pp 137 – 143, Smythies 1989, 1994, current, Harrison 1989, Hoffman 1998, Lehar current, Hameroff current )"

This was further exacerbated when a young Englishman George Donald Harrison joined the Skinner staff as Assistant General Manager in 1927, at the behest of Willis III and Marks.

Hubert Henry Harrison ( April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927 ) was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical socialist political activist based in Harlem, New York.

In 1927 Harrison edited the ICUL ’ s Voice of the Negro until shortly before his death that year.

For many years after his 1927 death, Harrison was much neglected.

After immigrating to America, Harrison joined the Skinner Organ Company in 1927 where he spent the remainder of his career.

* 1927 – Robert Savoie, Canadian operatic baritone ( d. 2007 )

* 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman ( b. 1927 )

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

* 1927 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Pierre Mercure, Canadian musician and composer ( d. 1966 )

* 1927 – Sinclair Stevens, Canadian businessman and politician

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

* 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Quebec ( b. 1847 )

* 1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author ( d. 2011 )

* 1927 – Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1966 – Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian scientist and politician

* 1927 – Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group

* 1927 – Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator

* 1927 – Bud MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1988 )

* 1847 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Thomas Hill, Canadian actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1927 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman ( d. 2006 )

* 1927 – Claire L ' Heureux-Dubé, Canadian jurist

Mackenzie King, Vincent Massey at the Canadian Legation during a visit to Washington on 22 November 1927

* August 26 – Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player ( b. 1927 )