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.

Chessmetrics places him as the third best player in the world from 1927 to 1931, behind Alexander Alekhine and José Capablanca.

José Victoriano ( Carmelo Carlos ) González-Pérez ( March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927 ), better known as Juan Gris (), was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life.

** José Raúl Capablanca, World chess champion 1921 – 1927 ( d. 1942 )

In April 1927, José María Acha, a director at Arenas Club de Getxo, first proposed the idea of a national league in Spain.

While this extreme would almost never occur in practice, in game 11 of their 1927 world championship match, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine each had two queens in play at once ( from move 65 through the end on move 66 ).

Currently located in the center of the Plaza de la Merced, looking towards the church of San Andrés is a bust of the poet Rubén Darío, sculptor Santiago de Santiago, which was donated by the Nicaragua government to the city in 1973. Letters related to the bust are also found in the Promenade Lounge, the famous poet José Rodas was first installed in 1927 in the plaza of the gardens, and moved to its present site in 1960 by the segovian sculptor Aniceto Marinas.

One major event that linked painterly and literary magic realisms was the translation and publication of Roh's book into Spanish by Spain's Revista de Occidente in 1927, headed by major literary figure José Ortega y Gasset.

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera ( 19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942 ) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.

Giuseppe Michael Agrelot ( April 21, 1927 – January 28, 2004 ), better known as José Miguel Agrelot, was a comedian, radio and television host and media icon in Puerto Rico.

* 1927 – 1930: José Siurob

As Steinitz and Tarrasch developed chess theory and increased the appreciation of positional play, the Queen's Gambit grew more popular, reaching its zenith in the 1920s and 1930s, and was played in all but two of 34 games in the 1927 world championship match between José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine.

In late 1927 he started to set up his own sextet or orchestra tipica ( José Pécora and David Abramsky on violin, César Ginzo and Tito Landó on bandoneón and Adolfo Kraus on bass ), directing it from behind the piano that he himself played.

In 1927, Colonel José Brás or Jose ' da Silva Nogueira whose family had its origin in Itapetininga, arrived in Marilia.

José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez also known as Blessed Miguel Pro ( born January 13, 1891 – executed November 23, 1927 ), was a Mexican Jesuit Catholic priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles after trumped up charges of bombing and attempted assassination against former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón.

Carlos José Castilho ( November 27, 1927 – February 2, 1987 ) was a Brazilian football goalkeeper.

José Simón Azcona del Hoyo ( 26 January 1927 – 24 October 2005 ) was President of Honduras from 27 January 1986 to 27 January 1990 for the Liberal Party of Honduras ( PLH ).

Of the 34 games played in the 1927 World Championship between Alexander Alekhine and José Raúl Capablanca, all except the first and third began with the Queen's Gambit Declined.

He began his own nine-piece orchestra, known at various times as the Peninsula Band, the Super Soloists, and the Merrimakers, and appeared in San Mateo ( 1926 to June 1927 ), where he also owned a music store ; San José ( 1928 to January 1929 ), where he was Master of Ceremonies and wrote revues for the California Theatre before moving on to Fresno and Oakland.

He was elected Governor of Córdoba in December 1927, with José Antonio Ceballos as Vice-Governor, and took office on May 17, 1928.

José Rizal University joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1927.