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 – 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 – Jimmy Martin, American blugrass vocalist and guitarist ( d. 2005 )

* Jimmy Clements, present at the opening of Provisional Parliament House in 1927.

* Jimmy C. Newman singer ( b. 1927 )

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith ; August 18, 1927 ) is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

The shortest time between two unassisted triple plays occurred in May 1927, when Johnny Neun executed the feat less than 24 hours after Jimmy Cooney.

* Jimmy Martin ( 1927 – 2005 ), bluegrass musician

Harold Brown ( born September 19, 1927 ), American scientist, was U. S. Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981 in the cabinet of President Jimmy Carter.

Two seasons later, in 1927, Jimmy Cooney — who had been a victim of the first triple play — also acquired three outs by himself.

The tennis courts at the Highlands were where player Jimmy Connors began his career, and the facility hosted Davis Cup qualifying matches in 1927, 1946, and 1961.

* 1927 A Great Joke on Jimmy Skunk

His compositions include " Trumbology " ( 1927 ), " Plantation Moods " with David Rose, " Red Hot ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '" with Fats Waller, " Barbed Wire Blues ", " Troubled ", " I Like That ", " Bass Drum Dan ", " Break it Down ", " I'm Glad ", " Choo Choo ", " Sun Spots ", " Eclipse ", " Meteor ", " Krazy Kat ", " G Blues ", " Tailspin " with Jimmy Dorsey, " Crying All Day ", " Loved One ", " Apple Blossoms " with Joe Venuti, Lennie Hayton, and Eddie Lang, " Three Blind Mice " with Chauncey Morehouse, " The Mayor of Alabam '", " Flight of a Haybag ", " Cinderella's Wedding Day ", " Runnin ' Ragged ", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke in 1927, which was released as a single on Okeh, Columbia, and Parlophone.

From 1927 to 1934 he was A & R Director for Columbia Records, where his many productions included scores of exceptionally well performed pop songs of the day with hot jazz solos by musicians like Manny Klein, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, and Bunny Berigan, among others.

He joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1927, working with Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Marie Dressler, and Jimmy Durante.

* Jimmy Wood ( 1842 – 1927 ), American baseball player and manager

Jimmy Martin ( August 10, 1927 – May 14, 2005 ) was an American bluegrass musician, known as the " King of Bluegrass ".

* Jimmy Jones ( footballer born 1927 ), retired English goalkeeper for Accrington Stanley

Jimmy Hampson played for Nelson between 1926 and 1927.

William Vincent Shannon ( August 24, 1927 – September 27, 1988 < sup ></ sup >) was a member of the editorial board of the New York Times and U. S. ambassador to Ireland under President Jimmy Carter ( 1977-81 ).

* Jimmy Cavallo ( born 1927 ), American musician

He later incorporated the music of popular songwriter Jimmy McHugh into a new musical about young journalists in Paris in 1927, Lucky in the Rain, which had a successful run at the Goodspeed Opera.

Jimmy Slyde ( October 2, 1927 – May 16, 2008 ), born James Titus Godbolt, and known as the King of Slides, was a world-renowned tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz.