Independently deriving Friedmann's equations in 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, proposed that the inferred recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of the Universe.

Initially producing illustrations for Belgian Scouting magazines, in 1927 he began working for the conservative newspaper Le XXe Siècle, where he adopted the pen name " Hergé ", based upon the French pronunciation of " RG ", his initials reversed.

* 1927 – Ann Petersen, Belgian actress ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter

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

* July 18 – André Cools, Belgian Socialist politician ( b. 1927 )

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Also a historical resident, Empress Carlota of Mexico ( born the first Belgian princess ) spent many secluded years at the Castle of Bouchout where she died in 1927.

Pierre Alechinsky ( born 19 October 1927 ) is a Belgian artist.

As a politician he became Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1918 to 1920 ( and again from 1927 to 1935 ), minister of justice from 1926 to 1927, and member of the council of ministers from 1935 to 1936.

About 1900 he changed the spelling and pronunciation of his surname to Glière, which gave rise to the legend, stated by Leonid Sabaneyev for the first time ( 1927 ), of his French or Belgian descent.

The Times Literary Supplement review of the book publication struck a positive although incorrect note in its issue of 3 February 1927 when they assumed that the different style of the book from its immediate predecessor, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was a deliberate ploy: " M. Poirot, the Belgian detective who has figured in others of Mrs Christie's tales, is in very good form in the latest series of adventures.

Georges Eekhoud ( 27 May 1854 – 29 May 1927 ) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French.

Cools ( 1 August 1927 – 18 July 1991 ) was a Belgian socialist politician who died by assassination.

The side also won the Belgian Cup in 1927 and in 1985, and have represented Belgium in European tournaments on several occasions.

" Fats " Sadi Pol Lallemand ( 23 October 1927, Andenne – 20 February 2009 in Huy ) was a Belgian jazz musician, vocalist and composer, playing vibraphone and percussion.

In 1927, the Belgian Emile Genon bought the patents to operate in the European continent ( excluding Scandinavia ).

He was Belgian Chess Champion in 1923, 1927, 1930, and 1936.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

The Roman Catholic Church decreed that the Comma Johanneum was open to dispute ( June 2, 1927 ), and it is rarely included in modern scholarly translations.

* Carlo Maria Martini ( 1927 – 2012 ), Roman Catholic cardinal

Herbert E. Balch continued the work from 1904 to 1914, where he led excavations of the entrance passage ( 1904 – 15 ), Witch's Kitchen ( Chamber 1 ) and Hell's Ladder ( 1926 – 1927 ) and the Badger Hole ( 1938 – 1954 ), where Roman coins from the 3rd century were discovered along with Aurignacian flint implements.

* My: Roman, ( We: A Novel ) 1927 ( translations: Gregory Zilboorg, 1924 ; Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1970, Mirra Ginsburg, 1972 ; Alex Miller, 1991 ; Clarence Brown, 1993 ; Natasha Randall, 2006 ; first Russian-language book publication 1952, U. S .)-Wir, TV film in 1981, dir.

In 1948, Carl Blümel published it in a monograph as The Hermes of a Praxiteles, reversing his earlier ( 1927 ) opinion that it was a Roman copy, finding it not 4th century either but referring it instead to a Hellenistic sculptor, a younger Praxiteles of Pergamon.

The Roman Catholic seminary was founded in 1927 as St. John's Seminary.

The Roman Catholic church of Zundert, dedicated to Saint Trudo, was built in 1927, and contains art treasures from the 17th century, coming from the St. Michielsabdij in Antwerp.

It is estimated that, by 1927, as many as 40, 000 Dutch Roman Catholics had immigrated to the United States — an average rate of 10 per week for 80 years.

In 1927, the church was proclaimed a Roman Catholic " basilica minor ".

* Cassius Dio Roman History in English translation by Cary ( 1914 – 1927 ), at LacusCurtius

were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum at the same time, on January 9, 1927, with Action Française being the first newspaper ever placed on the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.

Brendan Smyth ( 8 June 1927 – 22 August 1997 ) was a Roman Catholic priest who became notorious as a child molester, using his position in the Roman Catholic Church to obtain access to his victims.

* Baker, George Philip: Sulla the Fortunate: Roman General and Dictator ( J Murray, London, 1927 ; reprint by Cooper Square Press, 2001 ) reprint ISBN 0-8154-1147-2

15-poul imperf stamp of 1927, first use of Roman letters.

In 1927, the first Roman letters had appeared on an Afgan stamp, the inscription reading " AFGHAN POSTAGE ".

Angelo Sodano ( born 23 November 1927 ) is an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Nordhoff attended technical college in Berlin, where he became a member of the Roman Catholic fraternity Askania-Burgundia, and in 1927, began work for BMW working on aircraft engines.

Edmund Cardinal Szoka ( born September 14, 1927 ) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Gérard Brach ( 23 July 1927 – 9 September 2006 ) was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud.

* William Thomas Russell ( 1863 – 1927 ), American Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston

* 1927 – Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.

The Kilmers had five children: Kenton Sinclair Kilmer ( 1909 – 1995 ), Michael Barry Kilmer ( 1916 – 1927 ), Deborah (" Sister Michael ") Clanton Kilmer ( 1914 – 1999 ) who was a Catholic nun at the Saint Benedict ’ s Monastery, Rose Kilburn Kilmer ( 1912 – 1917 ), and Christopher Kilmer ( 1917 – 1984 ).

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Its Inheritance in Source-valuation and Criticism, Washington: Catholic University of America, 1927

Eventually the village would close and, in 1927, be sold to the La Salette Brotherhood of Montreal, a Catholic order noted for its Christmas display.

* John Fitzgerald ( poet ) ( 1927 – 2007 ), Welsh-language poet and Catholic philosopher

Between 1916 and 1927 West Catholic Boys and Girls and Northeast Catholic were opened.

Upon graduation in 1927 Borduas was hired by the Montréal Catholic School Board as a high school art teacher.

Following Catholic Emancipation in the first half of the 19th century, other Poor Clares came to the United Kingdom, eventually establishing communities in, e. g., Notting Hill ( 1857 ) ( which was forced to relocate by the local Council in the 1960s, and settled in the village of Arkley in 1969 ), Much Birch ( 1880 ), Arundel ( 1886 ), Lynton ( founded from Rennes, France, 1904 ), Woodford Green ( 1920 – 1969 ) and Nottingham ( 1927 ).

Due to Calles's strict and sometimes violent enforcement of anti-clerical laws, people in strongly Catholic areas, especially the states of Jalisco, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Colima and Michoacán, began to oppose him, and on 1 January 1927, a war cry went up from the faithful Catholics, "¡ Viva Cristo Rey!

Built in 1927, it is now owned by a Catholic order. Smith entered politics in 1852 entering the House of Assembly as an opponent of the Tory compact that ran the colony and became a leading reform and advocate of responsible government which was granted to the colony in 1854.

In 1922, the Clarke family sold the property to H V McKay, the owner of the Sunshine Harvester Works, whose estate subsequently onsold it in 1927 to the Salesian Catholic order.