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.

The first census in Turkey was conducted in 1927.

In the 1920s, Fascist Italy pursued an aggressive foreign policy that included an attack on the Greek island of Corfu, aims to expand Italian territory in the Balkans, plans to wage war against Turkey and Yugoslavia, attempts to bring Yugoslavia into civil war by supporting Croat and Macedonian separatists to legitimize Italian intervention, and making Albania a de facto protectorate of Italy, which was achieved through diplomatic means by 1927.

He established diplomatic relations with most major countries and, following a 1927 tour of Europe and Turkey ( during which he noted the modernization and secularization advanced by Atatürk ), introduced several reforms intended to modernize Afghanistan.

* December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making ' tomorrow ' January 1 1927

Some planned capitals include Abuja, Nigeria ( 1991 ); Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil ( 1855 ); Ankara, Turkey ( 1923 ); Austin, Texas ( 1839 ); Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil ( 1897 ); Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 1971 ); Brasília, Brazil ( 1960 ); Canberra, Australia ( 1927 ); Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil ( 1933 ); Islamabad, Pakistan ( 1960 ); Frankfort, Kentucky ( 1792 ); Jefferson City, Missouri ( 1821 ); Jhongsing New Village, Taiwan, Republic of China ( 1955 ); New Delhi, India ( 1911 ); Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ( 1889 ); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( 1857 ); Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil ( 1989 ); Quezon City, Philippines ( 1948 – 1976 ); Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ( 1792 ); Washington D. C., USA ( 1800 ); and Wellington, New Zealand ( 1865 ).

* Following World War I, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol served as United States High Commissioner for Turkey from 1919 to 1927.

On the slopes of Mount Pion ( Mount Coelian ) near Ephesus ( near modern Selçuk in Turkey ), the " grotto " of the Seven Sleepers with ruins of the church built over it was excavated in 1927 – 28.

Ever since the Turkish State Railways were formed in 1927, railways extended to eastern Turkey.

Since 1927 it has also become Children's Day (, literally " The Holiday of National Sovereignty and Children "), an official holiday dedicated to the children of Turkey and ( from 1979 on ) the world.

Grew was the Ambassador to Turkey ( 1927 – 32 ) and the Ambassador to Japan beginning in 1932.

In 1927, Grew was appointed as the American ambassador to Turkey.

Nutuk ( Modern Turkish: Söylev ) was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, addressed to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

With the company of Marthe, he departed in 1927 for the Orient and spent the summer in Greece and Turkey.

* Bring Home the Turkey ( 1927 )

Archbishop Karekin II Kazanjian, ( May 18, 1927, Istanbul ( Turkey )-March 10, 1998 İstanbul ) was the 83rd Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians.

The Greek population of Turkey declined from 119, 822 persons in 1927, to about 7, 000 in 1978.