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.

After serving as the Police Minister, Kim became the president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in 1927.

The Overture's love theme has been used in many TV shows and movies such as Columbo, Kim Possible, The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), Wayne's World, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Road Rovers, Taz-Mania, Tiny Toons, Scrubs, Seeing Double, The Ren and Stimpy Show, South Park, Clueless, A Christmas Story, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Moonraker, SpongeBob SquarePants, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street, El Chavo, The Sims, The Three Musketeers, etc.

* Kim Koo ( December 14, 1926 – August 1927 )

Nellie Tayloe Ross ( November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977 ) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933 – 1953.

The board was initially made up of eight forestry commissioners and was chaired by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat from 1919 to 1927.

In 1927 the building on 14th Street was sold, to make way for the new tower being added to the Consolidated Edison Company Building.

The club was almost relegated in the 1927 – 28 season, but with 17 points in the last 10 matches they pulled off a great escape, rising from bottom to 14th.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation is undertaking a $ 225 million project on the 12th and 14th Street Viaducts, built in 1927 and 1950 respectively.

* President of the 14th session of the Indian Science Congress in 1927.

* Charles Pepys Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon ( 1870 – 1927 ), grandson

The building was completed in August 1927, and included retail space and office space intended for Washington news bureaus with the club occupying the 13th and 14th floors.

* Charles Pepys Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon ( 1870 – 1927 ) ( grandson ) Son of Henry Reginald, Lord Courtenay ( d. 1898 ), a barrister and JP, Poor Law inspector for the Western District, who predeceased his own father, by his wife Lady Evelyn Pepys, daughter of Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham ( 1781 – 1851 ).

J. Willard Marriott, who had relocated with his business partner Hugh Colton and his wife Alice from Utah to Washington, D. C., started the company in 1927, when he operated a curbside food stand selling A & W Root Beer in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington at 14th Street and Park Road NW.

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.

* 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission ( later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission ) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.

* 1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras ( d. 2005 )

* Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma ( born 1927 ), Mexican lawyer, Secretary of Finance under President Portillo, and director general of Pemex and the Somex bank

On May 4, 1927, representatives from the two warring factions signed the Espino Negro accord, negotiated by Henry Stimson, appointed by U. S. President Calvin Coolidge as a special envoy to Nicaragua.

* 1927 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, former President of Uruguay

U. S. President Calvin Coolidge greeting 1500 Boy Scouts making an annual pilgrimage to the Capitol, 1927

Roosevelt was included with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore Memorial, designed in 1927 with the approval of Republican President Calvin Coolidge.

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.

Franco Maria Malfatti di Monte Tretto () ( Rome, 13 June 1927 – 10 December 1991 ), was an Italian politician and President of the European Commission.

Bellanca remained President and Chairman of the Board from the corporation's inception on the last day of 1927 until he sold the company to L. Albert and Sons in 1954.

* Roberto Suazo Córdova ( born 1927 ), former President of Honduras

In 1927, Harvey Firestone of Firestone Tires presented Billy the pygmy hippo to U. S. President Calvin Coolidge.

After a month of debates the bill was finally passed as the Radio Act of 1927 on February 18, 1927 and signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on February 23, 1927 as,.

President Calvin Coolidge was an important aspect of radio regulation by signing the Radio Act of 1927, which invested regulatory power to the Federal Radio Commission ( FRC ).

* Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( 2 February 1927 – ... ), who has lived in the city of Chamalières, part of Clermont-Ferrand's metropolitan area, President of the Republic of France from 1974 to 1981

* Marie Warder ( born 1927 ), founder and former President of the Hemochromatosis Society of South Africa

In 1927, Oldsmobile President Irving Jacob Reuter and his wife Janet built Meadowvue, an English Tudor mansion, at which they lived for nine years.

In June 1927, Garden City became a village, with Arnold Folker as Village President.

Subjects for the murals were drawn from the history of Vicksburg and the surrounding area and include President Theodore Roosevelt's bear hunt, the SS Sultana, the Sprague, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Kings Crossing site, Willie Dixon, the Flood of 1927, the 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado outbreak, Rosa A. Temple High School and the Vicksburg National Military Park.