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.

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1927 – Peter Fryer English Marxist writer and journalist ( d. 2006 )

Peter Michael Falk ( September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lt. Frank Columbo in the television series Columbo.

and Peter DuPonceau in 1818 ( the term used by Henry C. K. Wyld in 1927 was " received standard ").

* June 9 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter ( d. 1927 )

* June 23 – Peter Falk, American actor ( b. 1927 )

Peter R. Holland has pointed out that, in 1927, Einstein had submitted a preprint with a related proposal but, not convinced, had withdrawn it before publication.

* Dorothy L. Sayers's Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), one of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novels

The first radio commentary of the race was broadcast by Meyrick Good and George Allison on the BBC in 1927 ; the first televised coverage was in 1960 with commentary led by Peter O ' Sullevan.

Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen ( January 25, 1842 – May 12, 1927 ) was a Danish linguist and Turkologist.

* The Tracy High School football field and MVP trophy are named after Peter B. Kyne, a novelist from San Francisco whose Bohemian Club friends orchestrated the naming in 1927, even though Kyne had very little to do with Tracy.

Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

Major advances first appeared in the late 1920s when cooling via adiabatic demagnetization was independently proposed by two scientists, Peter Debye in 1926 and William Giauque in 1927.

Sidney Evans died in a plane crash on 4 February 1927, leaving her pregnant with their son Peter Vernon Evans, who was adopted by his grandparents.

Harry Peter " Bud " Grant, Jr. ( born May 20, 1927 ) is the former longtime American football head coach of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League ( NFL ) for eighteen seasons.

Bud Grant was born on May 20, 1927, in Superior, Wisconsin to Harry Peter Sr. and Bernice Grant.

Peter Nichols FRSL ( born 31 July 1927 ) is an English writer of stage plays, film and television.

*' Peter Nichols ( 1927 -)' in The Literary Encyclopedia.

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

The timeline includes information concerning the birth of several human characters, including Digory Kirke in 1888, Polly Plummer in 1889, and Peter Pevensie in 1927.

* Peter Chardon Brooks Adams ( June 24, 1848-February 13, 1927 )

In 1927, he took a job escorting a shipment of bananas from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, where he eventually picked up some theater work under the name of Peter Richmond, in homage to his uncle.

* Peter Philips ( politician ) ( 1927 – 2009 ), Australian politician