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 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian British anti-occupation activist ( b. 1892 )

* 1927 – Prabhakar Thokal, Indian cartoonist

* 1927 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist ( d. 2005 )

* 1882 – Inayat Khan, Indian Sufi and educator ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricketer ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.

* 1927 – Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician

* Prabhakar Thokal, Indian cartoonist ( b. 1927 )

ACA met its deadline of having an air mail service operating by October 19, 1927 by chartering a Fairchild FC-2 floatplane from a small Dominican Republic carrier, West Indian Aerial Express.

In 1927, the Indian Government, according to a report in the Times, March 6, 1963 “ decided that a claim of the Mir of Kashmir that his dominions were bound on the north by the northern watershed of the Kuenlun ranges was insupportable ”.

By 1924, the land had been developed as Louisville Country Club and the initial subdivision, sometimes referred to as Indian Hills-Country Club, was developed mostly from 1927 to 1941 by the Semonin company.

A poem, entitled " To The Aurora Borealis ", written by world-renowned Indian yogi and guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, while visiting Forest Lake in 1927, appears in the book " Songs of the Soul ".

Indian purchased the ownership of the name, rights, and production facilities of the Ace Motor Corporation in 1927.

The title of the film is taken from American author Katherine Mayo's 1927 polemical book Mother India, in which she attacked Indian society, religion and culture.

Pan Am's first flight took off on October 19, 1927, from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, in a hired Fairchild FC-2 floatplane being delivered to West Indian Aerial Express in the Dominican Republic.

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

Lal Krishna Advani ( ; born on 8 November 1927, in Karachi ) known as L. K Advani is a Veteran Indian politician.

As a matter of record the chief of the tribe, John Lyons AKA ( Chief Patch-Akadim ), gave a deposition for the Kikiallus tribe at Swinomish Indian Reservation on March 8, 1927.

The Indian media was initiated since the late 18th century with print media started in 1780, radio broadcasting initiated in 1927, and the screening of Auguste and Louis Lumière moving pictures in Bombay initiated during the July 1895 — is among the oldest and largest media of the world.

Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer CB ( 9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927 ) was a British Indian Army officer who, as a temporary Brigadier-General, was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar ( in the British India province of Punjab ).

Orwell spent five years from 1922 to 1927 as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma ( now Myanmar ).

In 1927, she sailed for India and adopted a stage name that would sound Hindu ( using " dev ", the Hindi root for " god ") and acted in Indian films.

In 1927, the British Government, in order to promote the market in India for British films over American ones, formed the Indian Cinematograph Enquiry Committee.