From [YSDC] The Veiled Society
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-March
April-June
- April 1 - First female police officers in Dresden
- April 5 - In Britain, Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support
- April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
- April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
- April 12 - Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai
- April 18 - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang
- April 21 - Banking crisis in Japan
- April 22 - May 5 - The Great Mississippi Flood affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
- 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 style 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.
- 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 - 8.6 richter scale 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
- May 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
- June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations to Albania
- June 7 - Peter Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, assassinated
- June 9 - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage
- June 13 - Leon Daudet, leader of French monarchists, is arrested in France
- June 13 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
July-September
October-December
Unknown dates
Births
January
- January 1 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 1 - Doak Walker, American Footballer (d.1998)
- January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (d. 2003)
- January 10 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
- January 13 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
- January 13 - Sydney Brenner, British biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
- 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 - Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
- January 29 - Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
- January 30 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
February
- February 2 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
- February 3 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
- February 7 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
- February 7 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
- February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
- February 15 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian
- February 16 - June Brown, British actor
- February 16 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
- February 20 - Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. 1986)
- February 20 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American writer and humorist (d. 1996)
- February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
- February 27 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
March
- March 1 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
- March 1 - Robert Bork, American law professor
- March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
- March 6 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
- March 11 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985-1992) (d. 2005)
- March 13 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005}
- March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (d. 1967)
- March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
- March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
- March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
- March 24 - Martin Walser, German author
- March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
- March 29 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- March 31 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
- March 31 - William Daniels, American actor
April
- April 2 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer
- April 2 - Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (d. 1980)
- April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
- April 10 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
- April 16 - Pope Benedict XVI
- April 16 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
- April 20 - Phil Hill, American race car driver
- April 20 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 24 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader
May-June
- May 9 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- May 11 - Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
- 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 30 - Clint Walker, American actor
- 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 28 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July-August
- July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- July 6 - Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey
- July 6 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
- July 18 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
- July 31 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- August 4 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
- August 18 - Rosalynn Carter, wife of U.S President Jimmy Carter
- August 8 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
- 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)
- August 30 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
September-November
- September 11 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster
- September 11 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
- September 16 - Peter Falk, American actor
- September 25 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
- September 20 - Lloyd Robinson, Australian speleologist
- 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)
- November 18 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
- November 24 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
- November 24 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
- November 27 - Vin Scully, baseball broadcaster
- November 28 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
- November 30 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
December
Deaths
- January 18 - Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
- February 19 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
- 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 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
- June 1 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
- 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 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
- July 24 - Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1892)
- August 23 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891)
- August 23 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888)
- September 5 - Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (b. 1868)
- 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)
Marriages
Nobel Prizes
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