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.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

In a manner similar to the typographic experimentation by Herbert Bayer at the Bauhaus, and Jan Tschichold's Die neue Typographie, Schwitters experimented with the creation of a new more phonetic alphabet in 1927.

* 1927 – Herbert Ross, American director ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer ( b. 1927 )

Their remains were re-interred December 20, 1927, at the newly completed Harding Memorial in Marion, dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on June 16, 1931.

Herbert E. Balch continued the work from 1904 to 1914, where he led excavations of the entrance passage ( 1904 – 15 ), Witch's Kitchen ( Chamber 1 ) and Hell's Ladder ( 1926 – 1927 ) and the Badger Hole ( 1938 – 1954 ), where Roman coins from the 3rd century were discovered along with Aurignacian flint implements.

Colonel James (' Jim ') Herbert Porter ( b. 1892, Burton upon Trent ), a third generation brewer at Newcastle Breweries, in 1927.

* Herbert Blomstedt ( born 1927 ), a Swedish conductor

* Herbert Ross ( 1927 – 2001 ), film director

In 1885 Herbert became romantically involved with Therese Förster ( 1861 – 1927 ), a soprano who had recently joined the court opera for which the court orchestra played.

* The Music of Victor Herbert, Album C-1, conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor, 1927

James Stephens ( 1821 – 1889 ), a stonemason who was a supporter of the Chartists and later an influential Australian trade unionist, was born in the town, as was Sir Herbert Isambard Owen ( 1857 – 1927 ), a nephew of Isambard Kingdom Brunel who became an academic and a leading figure in the formation of the University of Wales.

In 1927, in competition against — amongst others — Herbert Austin, Morris purchased the bankrupt Wolseley Motors and the company passed into his personal control.

* Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York, 1927

* 7 April 1927: world's first videophone call via an electro-mechanical AT & T unit, from Washington, D. C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.

* Herbert C. Kraft ( 1927 – 2000 ), American archaeologist

* Herbert Pilch ( born 1927 ), German linguist

* George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon ( first chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation ) ( 1927 )

Most significantly, he was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board between 1927 and 1930 during the presidencies of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.

In this capacity he served from 1927 until 1932 when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Herbert Hoover following Mellon's resignation to serve as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

He was Herbert Spencer lecturer at Oxford in 1927, and in 1930, amid congratulations from all over the country, the Order of Merit was conferred on him, the first to an Australian-born.

President Calvin Coolidge named him as chairman of the Federal Farm Loan Board in 1927 and Herbert Hoover promoted him to chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1930.

Herbert David Ross ( May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001 ) was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.

Herbert Akroyd-Stuart ( 28 January 1864, Halifax Yorkshire, England-19 February 1927, Halifax ) was an English inventor who is noted for his invention of the hot bulb engine, or heavy oil engine.