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.

In May 1927 Armstrong recorded with the Hot Seven, which consisted of Johnny Dodds, Johnny St. Cyr, Lil Hardin Armstrong, John Thomas, Pete Briggs, and Baby Dodds.

From September to December 1927 the Hot Five Armstrong assembled consisted of Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr, Lonnie Johnson, and Baby Dodds.

In 1927, Costello, Luciano, and former Chicago gangster John " Johnny the Fox " Torrio organized a group of top East Coast rum-runners into a large bootlegging operation.

* Johnny Williams ( American football ) ( 1927 – 2005 ), American football player

His professional boxing debut, officially, occurred on December 8, 1927, when he beat Johnny Cruz in six rounds in Havana.

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.

After two years in the United States Army, returned to playing in Chicago mostly with New Orleans bands, joining Carroll Dickerson's Orchestra ( recording with it in 1927 ) and later with the groups of King Oliver, Jimmie Noone, Tiny Parham, Johnny Dodds.

* Johnny Graham ( footballer born 1857 ) ( 1857 – 1927 ), Scottish association football player for Preston North End in the 1880s

* Animators: all of the directors, plus Raoul Barré ( 1915 ), Johnny B. Gruelle ( 1917 ), Jack King ( 1920 – 1921 ), Isadore Klein ( 1920 – 1921 ), Leon A. Searl ( 1920 – 1921 ), Bert Green ( 1920 – 1921 ), Edward Grinham ( 1920 – 1921 ), Ben Sharpsteen ( 1920 – 1921 ), Will Powers ( 1920 – 1921 ), Walter Lantz ( 1920 – 1921 ), David Hand ( 1925 – 1927 ), Ving Fuller ( 1925 – 26 ), Frank Paiker ( c. 1924 )

* Johnny Logan ( baseball ) ( born 1927 ), former professional American baseball player

* Johnny Gray ( baseball ) ( born 1927 ), baseball pitcher

The Cougars played their first game at the Olympia on November 22, 1927 and Detroit's Johnny Sheppard scored the first goal at the new building.

After his birth on September 3, 1927, the tiny voice of Brinkley's son John Richard Brinkley III, nicknamed " Johnny Boy ", was heard on the radio program.

* Johnny Logan ( baseball ) ( born 1927 ), American baseball player

* Wooden Willie ( 1927 ) written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle

His first hit came in 1927 with " Soliloquy "; his last was " Here's to My Lady " in 1952, which he wrote with Johnny Mercer.

John " Johnny " Rauch ( August 20, 1927 – June 10, 2008 ) was an American football player and coach.

* Aileen Stanley and Johnny Marvin ( duet, with ukulele and orchestra, recorded May 25, 1927 ; released by Victor Records as catalog number 20714, with the flip side " Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away ," and by HMV Records as catalog number B2519 )

* Johnny Dankworth, musician and soloist, born in Highams Park in 1927.