* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

Throughout April 1927, more than people were killed in Shanghai.

In the year after April 1927, over 300, 000 people died across China in anti-Communist suppression campaigns executed by the KMT .< ref name =" Barnouin38 "> Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.

The 5th Congress ( held in April – May 1927 as the KMT was cracking down on communists ) comprised 80 voting delegates representing 57, 968 members.

On 4 April 1927, following an agreement signed between the Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España, the Spanish incumbent telecommunications operator, and the Gibraltar City Council, direct communications between Spain and Gibraltar were established.

Jacques Mayol ( April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001 ) was the holder of many world records in free diving.

After further refinements, Dopyera applied for a patent on the so-called tri-cone guitar on April 9, 1927.

Romano Scarpa ( September 27, 1927, Venice – April 23, 2005, Málaga ) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.

* Louis de Vogüé ( 4 April 1927 – 1 March 1948 )

Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as " Jakob ", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.

* John Henderson Lamont ( April 2, 1927 – March 10, 1936 )

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

* April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish president and prime minister ( b. 1927 )

* April 23 – Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American civil rights activist ( b. 1927 )

* April 22 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer ( b. 1927 )

* April 17 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist ( d. 1927 )

* April 27 – Hubert Harrison, African American writer, critic, and activist ( d. 1927 )

* April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut ( parachute failure ) ( b. 1927 )

* April 5 – In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.

* April 22 – May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700, 000 people in the greatest natural disaster in American history at that time.

The fledgling network soon needed additional investors though, and the Columbia Phonograph Company, manufacturers of Columbia Records, rescued it in April 1927 ; as a result, the network was renamed " Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

The earlier telecast took place in April 1927, a month before Baird's demonstration.

In April 2007, former PLN Presidential candidate and CAFTA opponent José Miguel Corrales won a legal battle at the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which authorized him to gather over 100, 000 signatures to send CAFTA to a referendum and let the people decide the fate of the controversial agreement.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

Immediately after 21 April 2004 these troops were withdrawn by President Ricardo Maduro in the wake of a similar decision by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

The 2008 portion of the tour started on April 11, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum and culminated on July 24, 2008 in Noblesville, Indiana at the Verizon Wireless Music Center.

* April 16 – A train crash in San José, Costa Rica kills 178 people.

* April 24 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician ( d. 1936 )

* April 18 – José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, President of Costa Rica ( d. 2010 )

* April 4 – José María Castro Madriz, President of Costa Rica ( b. 1818 )

* April 19 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

José Bové ( Toulouse, April 2007 )

In April 2007, Disney re-introduced José Carioca ( along with the third Caballero, Panchito ), in the newly-revamped ride at Epcot's Mexico Pavilion with entirely new animation and a new storyline.

José can also be seen in the Hong Kong Disneyland version of It's a Small World, which opened on April 28, 2008, as well as the Disneyland ( in California ) version of It's a Small World, installed during major refurbishments between January and November 2008.

was first dramatized as a live television drama starring José Ferrer on April 10, 1949 on Philco Television Playhouse.

Acknowledging that it was in Spanish territory, in April 1816, he informed Governor José Masot of West Florida that if the Spanish did not eliminate the fort, he would.

Dr. Rafael José Diaz ( born April 22, 1955 ) is a Puerto Rican television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital.

Justo José de Urquiza y García (; October 18, 1801 – April 11, 1870 ) was an Argentine general and politician.

Sandia was in the Casa Blanca land grant, issued to Juan José de la Garza Montemayor by Spain on April 2, 1807.

Eventually betrayed by a Yaqui woman whose sympathies lay with Loreto Molina and other Yaquis opposed to resisting Mexican authority, Cajemé was finally captured while visiting family in the pueblo of San José de Guaymas ( about 8 miles north of the Port of Guaymas ) on April 13, 1887.

* Fabrizio Ciano, 3º Conte di Cortellazzo e Buccari ( Shanghai, 1 October 1931 – San José, Costa Rica, 8 April 2008 ), married to Beatriz Uzcategui Jahn, without issue.

* 1977: The play was revived at the Imperial Theatre on 14 April 1977 in a production directed by José Quintero and designed by Ben Edwards.

José Sarney de Araújo Costa (; born 24 April 1930 in Pinheiro, Maranhão ) is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician.

Giuseppe Michael Agrelot ( April 21, 1927 – January 28, 2004 ), better known as José Miguel Agrelot, was a comedian, radio and television host and media icon in Puerto Rico.

According to Nicole Gaouette, in her report published in the Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2007, Juan José Daboub — the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and " a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party "— repeatedly deleted references to family planning from World Bank proposals.

Implemented in April 1980, at the behest of conservative Economy Minister José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, the policy tied adjustable loan installments ( nearly all lending in Argentina is on an adjustable interest basis ) to the value of the US Dollar locally.