Year
1927 (
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 5 – To
The Lighthouse was finished by Virginia Woolf.
- 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 – The British police raid the
office of the 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 – The ship
Cap Arcona is launched at Blohm
& Voss shipyard, in Hamburg
.
- In the U.S., the 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 dies in the crash of his
Airco DH.4 de
Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.
- May 18 – Bath School
disaster
: Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in
Bath Township, Michigan
.
- May 20 – Saudi Arabia
becomes independent of the United
Kingdom
(Treaty of
Jedda).
- May 20–21 – Charles
Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight,
from New
York
to Paris
in the
single-seat, single-engine monoplane
Spirit of St. Louis.
- May 22 – An 8.6
magnitude earthquake in Xining
, China kills
200,000.
- May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the
American
Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers
view the first live demonstration of television at the Bell
Telephone Building in New York.
- May 24 – Britain severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet
Union because of revelations of espionage
and underground agitation.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
- December – Communist Party congress condemns all
deviation from the general party line in the USSR
.
- 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 – 1,600 people are
hospitalized in London after hurting themselves on the icy
streets.
- December 15 – Marion 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 – The
U.S. submarine S-4 is
accidentally rammed and sunk by the United States Coast Guard
destroyer John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts
, killing everyone aboard after several
unsuccessful attempts to raise the 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 – The
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 (d. 2001)
- January 10
- January 13
- January 17 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d.
2008)
- January 23 – Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Radio Broadcaster
(d. 1965)
- 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)
- January 30 – Bendapudi Venkata
Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
- February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet
- 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 (d.
2008)
- February 16 – June Brown, British actress
- February 20
- February 21
- February 23
- 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 (Hollywood
Squares)
- March 31
- April 1 – Peter
Cundall, Australian horticulturist and television
presenter
- April 2
- April 6 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d.
1996)
- April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg,
American scientist, Nobel Prize
laureate
- April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
- April 15 – Robert Mills, American physicist
(d. 1999)
- April 16
- April 20
- April 27 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights
leader, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (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 (d. 2001)
- 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 18 – Paul
Eddington, British actor (d. 1995)
- 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 and children's television show host (d.
2004)
- June 28 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American
chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate
July–August
- July 4
- July 6
- July 10 – David Norman Dinkins, African-American
Mayor of New York City from
1989 through 1993
- July 18 – Kurt
Masur, Silesian-born conductor
- July 26 – Danny
La Rue, Irish drag queen (d. 2009)
- July 30 – Victor
Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- August 4 – Jess
Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
- August 7 – Carl
Switzer, American actor (The Little Rascals) (d.
1959)
- August 8 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d.
1994)
- August 12 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (d.
2007)
- August 18 – Rosalynn Carter, wife of U.S. President
Jimmy Carter
- August 20 – Peter Oakley, also known as geriatric1927,
British vlogger
- 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, African-American tennis player
(d. 2003)
September–October
- September 3 – Br. John Hamman S.M. (d. 2000),
close-up magician, inventor, Marianist brother
- September 11
- September 16 – Peter Falk, American actor
(Columbo)
- September 22 – Gordon Astall, English footballer
- September 25 – Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
- September 27
- September 30 – Adhemar Ferreira da Silva,
Brazilian athlete (d. 2001)
- October 1 – Tom
Bosley, American actor (Happy Days)
- October 8 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (d. 2002)
- October 14 – Roger Moore, English actor (The
Saint)
- October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 18 – George C. Scott, American actor (Patton) (d.
1999)
- October 23 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d.
2009)
- October 31 – Lee
Grant, American actress
November–December
- November 2 – Steve Ditko, influential American comic book
writer and artist, co-creator of Spider-Man
- November 8 – Patti Page, American singer
- November 10 – Sabah , Lebanese singer and actress
- November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor
(M*A*S*H) (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, American baseball broadcaster
- November 28 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
- December 3 – Andy Williams, American singer (Moon
River)
- December 5
- December 7 – Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
- December 8 – Vladimir Shatalov, Russian cosmonaut
- December 9 – Pierre Henry, French composer
- December 12 – Robert Noyce, Intel cofounder (d. 1990)
- December 13 – James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
- December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d.
2009)
- December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark, famous American
novelist
- December 25
- December 26
- December 29- Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
- December 29- Matt Murphy, Blues guitarist
Deaths
January–June
- January 19 – Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
- February 13 – Brooks Adams, American historian (b. 1848)
- 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 17 – Charles Emmett Mack, American actor (b.
1900)
- March 23 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (b.
1859)
- March 27 – Joe
Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
- April 15 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author
(b. 1868)
- April 25 – Earle Williams, American actor (b. 1880)
- May 2 – Ernest
Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
- May 3 – Ernest
Ball, American singer and songwriter (b. 1878)
- May 11 – Juan
Gris, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
- June 1
- June 4 – Robert McKim, American actor (b.
1886)
- June 9 – Victoria Woodhull, American feminist and
spiritualist (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 9 – John
Drew, Jr., American stage actor (b. 1853)
- July 20 – Ferdinand of Romania, King of Romania
(b. 1865)
- July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet
and writer (b. 1892)
- July 26 – June
Mathis, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
- August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, America novelist
and conservationist (b. 1878)
- August 23
- August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez,
Venezuelan writer (b. 1871)
- September 5 – Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement
leader (b. 1868)
- September 14
- September 5 – Marcus Loew, Theater chain founder (b. 1870)
- 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 5 – Sam
Warner, Hollywood studio executive (b. 1887)
- October 10 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation
pioneer (b. 1874)
- October 22 –
Borisav "Bora" Stanković,
Serbian
writer (b. 1876)
- November 1 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer (b.
1896)
Nobel Prizes
See also
Notes
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pro-Church rebels attack the
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to London
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, Burgenland
, Austria
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man and a child are killed by gunshots (see July
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Federal
Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications
Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
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area, western Honshu
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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.
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and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and
Trans-Jordan
such as Amman
, Salt
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war memorial is unveiled at Ypres
, Belgium
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opens between Fort Erie, Ontario
and Buffalo, New York
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, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of
Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco
and Vanzetti.
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later crashes in the Venezuela jungle (the crash site is never
located).
is founded in Brazil
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steamer ship Principessa Mafalda capsizes
off Porto
Seguro
, Brazil
.
. Nobody is injured in the incident, however,
the area was evacuated the night before after a mine foreman
noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.
incur the "worst natural disaster in the state's
history".
, having completed a 2-year journey of 11,356 miles
to all 48 states.
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opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey
to New York
City
: Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the
North Side of Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania
explode, killing 26 people and causing damage
estimated between contemporary totals of $4 million and $5
million.
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