* 1927 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist ( d. 1989 )

It can be compared with Edwyn R. Bevan's full translation in The House of Ptolemy ( 1927 ), based on the Greek text with footnote comments on variations between this and the two Egyptian texts.

* October 1 – David R. Francis, American politician ( d. 1927 )

* " For No Reason at All in C " / " Trumbology ", recorded on May 13, 1927, in New York and released as Okeh 40871, Columbia 35667, and Parlophone R 3419

As early as 1927, Robert R. McCormick, a prominent member of the McCormick family, and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, championed a purpose-built lakeside convention center for Chicago.

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has pointed out that, in 1927, Einstein had submitted a preprint with a related proposal but, not convinced, had withdrawn it before publication.

* Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D, 1927 ( Original title: Verwirrung der Gefühle ) – novella initially published in the volume Verwirrung der Gefühle: Drei Novellen

* R. V. Truitt, first lacrosse coach at the University of Maryland, 1919 – 1927.

* James R. Foster, " The Abbé Prévost and the English Novel ," PMLA 42 ( 1927 ): 443-64.

A book of autobiography, Gurdjieff started working on the Russian manuscript in 1927 and revised it for several times over the coming years, eventually an English translation by A. R. Orage was first published in 1963.

Charles D. Walcott – secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927 – took up the effort, and in January 1915, Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, and House Representative Ernest W. Roberts, introduced identical resolutions recommending the creation of an advisory committee as outlined by Walcott.

*" For No Reason at All in C " with Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke, recorded on May 13, 1927, in New York and released as Okeh 40871, Columbia 35667, and Parlophone R 3419

It has also been known as Cimolomys sculptusy ; Dipriodon lacunatus ; D. lunatus ( Marsh 1889 ); D. robustus ( Marsh 1889 ); Halodon sculptus ( Marsh 1889 ); M. borealis ( Simpson 1927 ); M. coelatus ; M. fragilis ; M. greeni ( Wilson R. W.

Robert Orben ( born March 4, 1927 ) is best known as an American professional comedy writer, though he also worked as a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford and as a magician.

* MG William R. Smith 1927 – 1928

It was built by architect Arthur R. Kelly in 1927 for Arthur Letts, Jr., son of The Broadway Department Store founder Arthur Letts and acquired by Playboy from Louis D. Statham ( 1908 – 1983 ), an engineer, inventor and chess aficionado, in 1971 for $ US1. 1 million ($ US5. 5 million in 2007 dollars ).

* John R. T. Davies ( 1927 – 2004 ), remastering engineer of classic jazz records and musician

* George R. Nelson ( 1927 – 1992 ), American set decorator

* November 15-C. T. R. Wilson ( born 1869 ), Scottish physicist ( Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 )

# Daniel R. Crissinger ( May 1, 1923-September 15, 1927 )

English collections of erotic verse by various hands, include the Drollery collections of the 17th century ; Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1698 – 1720 ); the Roxburghe Ballads ; Bishop Percy's Folio ; The Musical Miscellany ; National Ballad and Song: Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year AD 1800 ( 1895-7 ) edited by J. S. Farmer ; the three volume Poetica Erotica ( 1921 ) and its more obscene supplement the Immortalia ( 1927 ) both edited by T. R. Smith.

In an effort to turn around the company, Harry Ives relinquished his presidency in 1927, becoming chairman of the board and bringing in an outsider, Charles R. Johnson, as president, but problems continued and Ives ' largest creditor sued in 1928.

* R. M. R. Hall ( 1927 – 1996 ), known as Mike Hall, American linguist

In 1927 he succeeded Zemlinsky as opera director of the German Theater at Prague.

The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

on January 8, 1927, he returned to the Grosvenor in high spirits, and looking fit.

I heard the Classical Symphony for the first time when Koussevitzky conducted it in Paris in 1927.

`` Seeing The Moon Rise '' is dated August, 1927.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

During the excitement following Lindbergh's flight to Paris earlier in 1927, dare devil aviators overnight became legendary heroes.

A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.

With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.

But since 1927, researchers digging into ancient court records and legal files have been able to find illuminating pieces of information.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

This, of course, is baseball's most remarkable mark: The 60 home runs hit in 1927 by the incorrigible epicure, the incredible athlete, George Herman ( Babe ) Ruth of the Yankees.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen home runs, a closing spurt never matched.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

After 108 games in 1927, Ruth had 35 home runs.

It was heard again in Philadelphia in 1927 in the first version of `` Strike Up The Band '' and again abandoned shortly before the entire show was given up.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

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.

A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927.

* Now We Are Six ( 1927 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.