This article is about the year 1927. For the Australian band, see 1927 (band). Year 1920 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1927
January
February
March
April
May
- May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures.
- May 7 - Civil war ends in Nicaragua.
- May 9 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
- May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.
- May 12 - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation.
- May 13 - George V proclaims the change of his title from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
- May 14 - Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg. In the U.S., University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
- May 17 - Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, died in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
- May 18 - Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in the Bath School disaster in Bath Township, Michigan.
- May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
- May 20-21 - First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
- May 22 - An 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000.
- May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
- May 24 - Britain severs diplomatic relations with Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
- December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- December 12 - 1600 people hospitalized in London when they had hurt themselves on the icy streets.
- December 15 - Marian Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19 prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
- December 17 - U.S. submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard destroyer John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts killing everyone aboard after several unsuccessful attempts to raise sub.
- December 27 - Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theatre.
- December 30 - First Japanese metro line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.
Undated
Births
January-February
- January 1
- January 5 - Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American-born Hindu guru who spearheaded a global Hindu renaissance and founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery (d. 2001)
- January 10
- January 13
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
- January 24 - Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer and playwright
- January 25 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
- January 26 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
- January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director
- January 29
- January 30 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
- February 2 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
- February 3
- February 7
- February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
- February 14 - Lois Maxwell, British actress (d. 2007)
- February 15 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian
- February 16 - June Brown, British actress
- February 20
- February 21
- February 23 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
- February 24 - Mark Lane, American conspiracy theorist
- February 26 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
- February 27 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
March-April
- March 1
- March 3 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- March 4
- March 6
- March 11 - Ron Todd, British trade union leader (d. 2005)
- March 13
- March 16
- March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
- March 20 - John Joubert, South African-born British composer
- March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
- March 24 - Martin Walser, German author
- March 25 - Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player
- March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
- March 29 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- March 30 - Peter Marshall, American game-show host
- March 31
- April 2
- April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
- April 10 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
- April 16
- April 20
- April 24 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader (d. 2006)
May-June
- May 9 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- May 11
- Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
- Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
- May 13 - Herbert Ross, American film director
- May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
- May 22 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
- May 27 - Ralph Carmichael, American composer and arranger
- May 30 - Clint Walker, American actor
- June 3 - Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (d .2007)
- June 8 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
- June 12 - Al Fairweather, Scottish jazz musician (d. 1993)
- June 21 - Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
- June 23 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer and director (d. 1987)
- June 24 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 27 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
- June 28 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July-August
- July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- July 6
- July 10 - David Norman Dinkins, Mayor of New York City from 1989 through 1993
- July 18 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
- July 30 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- August 4 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
- August 7 - Carl Switzer, American actor (d. 1959)
- August 8 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
- August 12 - Porter Wagoner, American singer (d. 2007)
- August 18 - Rosalynn Carter, wife of U.S President Jimmy Carter
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
- August 24 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 25 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
- August 26 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
September-October
- September 11
- September 16 - Peter Falk, American actor
- September 22 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
- September 25 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
- September 27
- October 1 - Tom Bosley, American actor
- October 8 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2002)
- October 14 - Roger Moore, English actor
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 18 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
- October 31 - Lee Grant, American actress
November-December
- November 2 - Steve Ditko, influential comic book writer and artist, co-creator of Spider-Man
- November 8 - Patti Page, American singer
- November 14 - McLean Stevenson. American actor (d. 1996)
- November 15 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (d. 1992)
- November 18 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
- November 21 - Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
- November 23 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
- November 24
- November 27 - Vin Scully, baseball broadcaster
- November 28 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
- December 3 - Andy Williams, American singer
- December 5
- December 7 - Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
- December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut
- December 9 - Pierre Henry, French composer
- December 12
- December 13 - James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
- December 18 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
- December 24 - Mary Higgins Clark, famous American novelist
- December 25 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
- December 26
- December 29 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
Deaths
January - June
- January 19 - Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
- February 19 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
- March 4 - Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of saccharin (b. 1846)
- March 14 - Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, first president of Latvian Republic (b. 1859)
- March 23 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
- March 27 - Joe Start, baseball player (b. 1842)
- May 2 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
- June 1
- June 9 - Victoria Woodhull, American feminist (b. 1838)
- June 11 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
- June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (b. 1859)
July - December
- July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
- July 24 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1892)
- August 23
- September 5 - Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (b. 1868)
- September 14
- September 19 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
- September 29 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
- October 2 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- October 10 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
- October 22 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
Nobel prizes
See also
Notes
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