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.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

* 1927 – John Warner, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy and American politician

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.

* 1927 – John Warr, English cricketer

* 1927 – John Ashbery, American poet

* John Robert Brown ( Virginia politician ) ( 1842 – 1927 ), U. S. representative ( R-VA, 1887 – 1889 )

In Road to Xanadu ( 1927 ), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, John Livingston Lowes claimed that the poems were " two of the most remarkable poems in English ".

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

* 1927 – John Kander, American songwriter

The first complete mathematical formulation of this approach is generally credited to John von Neumann's 1932 book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, although Hermann Weyl had already referred to Hilbert spaces ( which he called unitary spaces ) in his 1927 classic paper and book.

* 2004 – John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – John K. Cooley, American journalist and author ( d. 2008 )

* 1853 – John Drew Jr., American actor ( d. 1927 )

This mechanism of action was elucidated by John Vane ( 1927 – 2004 ), who received a Nobel Prize for his work ( see Mechanism of action of aspirin ).

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*— ( 2004 ) " Reynolds, John Henry ( 1842 – 1927 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 18 June 2005 ( subscription required )

* John Henderson Lamont ( April 2, 1927 – March 10, 1936 )

** John Chancellor, American journalist ( b. 1927 )

** John Strachey, British journalist ( d. 1927 )

* November 13 – John Drew, Jr., American stage actor, ( d. 1927 )

* November 19 – John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1927 )

* October 24 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist ( b. 1927 )

* When a Man Loves ( 1927 ), directed by Alan Crosland, with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello

* John Livingston Lowes, The Road To Xanadu-A Study In The Ways Of the Imagination, Houghton Mifflin, 1927