* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1927 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist

Main Currents in American Thought ( 1927 ), 3-vol online

* 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Edwin Edwards, American politician

* 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player ( d. 1994 )

* 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – L. Q. Jones, American actor and director

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

* 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player ( d. 2003 )

* The Nomenclature of Silica by Gilbert Hart, American Mineralogist, Volume 12, pages 383-395, 1927

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer

* 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor

* 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist ( d. 2008 )

* 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Vernon Washington, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1927 – Jimmy Martin, American blugrass vocalist and guitarist ( d. 2005 )

Constructed during the 1920s and opened on 16 July 1927, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain J. E. P.

Bennett, a millionaire Calgary businessman at the 1927 leadership convention, the first time a Tory leader was chosen by this method.

Fitzmaurice made his first attempt to fly the Atlantic in 1927, when in the Princess Xenia ( a Fokker Vila aircraft ) piloted by Captain Robert Henry MacIntosh, who got financial backing from an American millionaire William Bateman Leeds and his co-financier Captain Anthony ( Wilfred Heyman ) Joynson-Wreford.

When the real estate bubble's following economic depression ended, Philadelphia utility millionaire Clarence H. Geist purchased the inn via an auction in 1927, and expanded it into the Boca Raton Club.

MacRobertson Miller Airlines Ltd. ( MMA ), callsign " Miller ", IATA code " MV ", was established in Australia in late 1927, by pilot Horrie Miller with the backing of chocolate millionaire Sir Macpherson Robertson.

However, the most important member of Quinn's ownership group, St. Louis millionaire Palmer Winslow, died in 1927.

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

* 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder (" double-six ") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which ( like all his cars ) he calls " Mrs. Merdle " after a character in Little Dorrit ( by Charles Dickens ) who " hated fuss ".

* 1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.

* 1927 – At 07: 52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 2011 – Charles Jarrott, British film and television director ( b. 1927 )

* 1967 – Charles J. Watters, American Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient ( b. 1927 )

On October 10, 1927, Army Chief of Staff General Charles Pelot Summerall directed that a draft bill be sent to Congress " to revive the Badge of Military Merit ".

* Charles Henderson-Padstow Church: Its History and List of Vicars, 1927

* 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver ( b. 1927 )

* Charles Jonnart ( 19 May 1913 – 1927 )

By 1927, Charles Mintz had married Margaret Winkler and assumed control of her business.

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* Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean ( May 20 – 21, 1927 ), nonstop from New York to Paris, France.

* November 19 – Charles J. Watters, U. S. Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient ( b. 1927 )

* March 15 – Charles Nungesser, French aviator and World War I fighter ace ( d. 1927 )

* Charles J. Shindo, 1927 and the Rise of Modern America ( University Press of Kansas ; 244 pages ; 2010 ).

* March 31 – Charles Doolittle Walcott, American invertebrate paleontologist ( d. 1927 )

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.