1927

1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year beginning on a Saturday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• 1 January: In London (United Kingdom) the first BBC broadcast (British Broadcasting Corporation) is made.
• January 6: U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua by order of President Calvin Coolidge.
• January 7th: The first phone call is made between New York and London.
• 13 January:
  • A statue of Alexander the Great is located in northern India.
  • Germany and Italy sign an agreement for the construction of a Hamburg-Milán motorway.
  • Discovery of the Spanish olograph will Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico.
• January 20: In the Argentine city of Concepción (province of Tucumán) the Concepción Fútbol Club is founded.

February

• February 1: In Mexico, President Plutarco Elías Calles ordered all Catholic priests to register with the federal authorities.
• February 3: In Portugal, opposition to General Carmona's government organizes military uprisings in Lisbon and Porto.
• 4 February:
  • The Mexican government lifts, except for the Spaniards, the ban on foreign clerics to reside in the country.
  • The British Malcolm Campbell bats the world record of car speed with an average of 281.4 km/h.
• 5 February: In Paris, the Conference of the Ambassadors accepts that Germany strengthens its southern and eastern borders, provided that its disarmament is effective.
• 7 February: In Barcelona, the civilian governor forbids auditions of sardanas in central locations of the city.
• February 9: In Portugal General Carmona violently stifles the revolutionary movement that broke out six days earlier.
• 11 February: in Barcelona the Spanish singer Concha Piquer debuts.
• 12 February: in Shanghai, China, the British troops are carrying out their first landing.
• 13 February: in Cali (Colombia) the sports corporation America of Cali was founded.
• 14 February: An earthquake that leaves 700 dead takes place in Yugoslavia.
• February 18: In Uruguay, Juan Campisteguy is proclaimed President of the Republic.
• February 19: A general strike is taking place in Shanghai in protest at the presence of British invading troops.
• February 21st: In Berlin the opera is released The zarévichFranz Lehár.

March

• March 1st: in a mine near Monmouth (Gales), a gray explosion kills 53 miners and burys another 150.
• 7 March: In the prefecture of Kyoto there is an earthquake of 7.0 that leaves a balance of nearly 3,000 dead and more than 7,000 wounded.
• 9 March: the Slavery Convention enters into force.
• March 10: Albania moves its troops for possible attack of Yugoslavia.
• 22 March:
  • Between Spain and Argentina a radio station is created.
  • The Blue Cross was founded in Mexico.
• March 23: the poet Antonio Machado is chosen to occupy a chair at the Royal Spanish Academy.
• March 30: Argentina is the first telegraphic communication with the Antarctica, between Ushuaia and the Orcadas Base.

April

• 1 April: in Leuna (Germany) the first large installation of direct carbon liquefaction is launched.
• April 2: in New York, United States, Spanish boxer Paulino Uzcudun beats American Tom Heeney by points.
• 2 April: the segregation of Navezuelas de Cabañas del Castillo occurs.
• April 7: In New York, Bell Telephone Company engineers perform the first remote transmission of images.

• April 14: In Mexico City, the Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella (1903-1929) founded the magazine Free America.

• April 14: An earthquake of 7.1 leaves 3 dead in the Province of Mendoza in Argentina.

• April 24: in Murcia, Spain, the Canonical Coronation of the Virgin of the Fuensanta, patron of that city is celebrated.
• 27 April: in Santiago de Chile, General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo – the vice president of that country – founded the police organization Carabineros de Chile through the decree with force of law n.o 2484.

May

• 14 May: in Hamburg, Germany, the baptism of the ship is celebrated Cap Arconafrom the company Blohm & Voss.
• May 21: Charles Lindbergh arrives in Paris on the first transoceanic flight of history.
• 22 May: in the hilly province of Gansu, China, 1300 km west of Beijing, at 06:32 an earthquake of magnitude 7,6, leaving a balance of 40,900 victims.
• 24 May:
  • The Professional Football Club of the University of Chile is founded
  • The British government breaks diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, accusing the Russians of espionage.

June

• 2 June: in Villa Elisa (Argentina), the Club Atlético Villa Elisa is founded.

• 28 June: in Spain, the Iberia airline is founded.

July

• 3 July: in a plebiscite held in the town of Cerro Chato, department of Durazno (Uruguay) the women in South America for the first time.
• 11 July: in the Palestinian city of Jericho a devastating earthquake of 6,3 leaves 287 dead.
• July 18: in Spain, the king decrees the creation of airfields in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Alicante, Malaga and Burgos.
• 20 July: in Chile, the executive decree 3876 of the Ministry of Public Instruction was promulgated, which re-establishes from 12 October of the same year the teaching and official use in that country of the spelling of the Royal Spanish Academy to replace the Bello Orthography that was in force since 1844.

August

• August 6: In the Official Journal of the Republic of Chile, the executive decree is published that replaces in that country the orthographic norms of the Royal Spanish Academy in replacement of the Orthography of Bello.
• August 16: The Spanish-luse agreement establishing the conditions of hydroelectric use of the Duero River is signed and will culminate in the construction of the Duero Salts.
• August 31: Amaryllis (steroid 1085): asteroid discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

September

• 21 September: Provincial Division of the Canary Islands in two provinces Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife

October

• 2 October: in the Basilica Cathedral of Lima (Peru) the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Lima is crowned canonically.
• October 3: The Huitzilac Matanza in Mexico happens, in which General Francisco Serrano and 13 of his collaborators are killed.
• October 6: In the United States the film is released The jazz singer (The jazz singer)Warner Brothers, the first sound film ever.
• October 30: In Peru, the 11th edition of Copa América begins.

November

• 4 November: In Santa Barbara, California there is an earthquake of 7.3 that causes a tsunami that leaves several damages.
• 12 November: Leon Trotski is expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leaving Iosif Stalin with the control of the Soviet Union.
• November 27: In Lima (Peru) The Americas Cup ends and Argentina is Champion for the Third Vez.
• November 29: In Sonora, Mexico, Ciudad Obregón is founded. Alexander Alekhine is crowned world chess champion.

December

• December 22: In the Province of Mendoza (Argentina) the Atlético Club San Martín is founded.

Births

January

• 1 January: Maurice Béjart, French dancer and choreographer (f. 2007).
• January 1st: Vernon L. Smith, American economist.
• January 1: January 9: Rodolfo Walsh, Argentine writer and journalist (f. 1977).
• January 11: John Lynch, British historian (f. 2018).
• January 17: Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (f. 2008).
• January 19: Carlos Oviedo Cavada, Chilean Cardinal (f. 1998).
• January 19: Michael M. Rea, American businessman and patron (f. 1996).
• January 24: Jean Raine, a Belgian painter, writer and filmmaker (f. 1986).
• January 25: Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer (f. 1994).
• January 25: Sara Rus, an Argentinean Polish Jewish activist, mother of Plaza de Mayo and survivor of Auschwitz.
• January 30: Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister (f. 1986).
• January 31: Lorraine Warren, professional clairvoyant and medium (f. 2019).

February

• February 2: Stan Getz, American jazz saxophoneist (f. 1991).
• February 3: Kenneth Anger, filmmaker, writer and American painter.
• 7 February: Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (f. 2020).
• February 14: Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (f. 2007).
• February 16: June Brown, British actress.(f.2022).
• February 18: Osvaldo Bayer, historian, writer and Argentinean anarchist journalist (f. 2018).
• February 20: Sidney Poitier, American actor (f.2021).
• February 20: Lucho Argaín, Colombian singer and composer (f. 2002).
• February 21: Hubert de Givenchy, a French fashion designer (f. 2018).
• February 23: Mirtha Legrand and Silvia Legrand, Argentine actresses (f. ----)(f. 2020).
• February 24: Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (f. 2017).
• 26 February: Manuel Conde-Pumpido Ferreiro, Spanish judge (f. 2020).
• 26 February: James Jimmy Kantor, South African lawyer, victim of apartheid (f. 1974).

March

• March 1: Harry Belafonte, American singer.
• March 1: Salvador Pániker, philosopher, engineer and Spanish writer (f. 2017).
• March 6: Gabriel García Márquez, a Colombian writer and journalist, a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 (f. 2014).
• March 7: James Broderick, American actor (f. 1982).
• March 8: Hugo Avendaño baritone and Mexican actor (f. 1998).
• March 9: Irma Torres, Mexican actress (f. 2010).
• March 9: Jaime de Armiñán, filmmaker and Spanish writer.
• March 10: Jupp Derwall, footballer and German coach (f. 2007).
• 11 March: Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan painter and sculptor (f. 2014).
• 12 March: Raúl Alfonsín, lawyer, politician, statesman and president of Argentina between 1983 and 1989 (f. 2009).
• March 15, entitled Maija Isola, a painter and Finnish textile designer (f. 2001).
• March 21: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a German politician (f. 2016).
• March 22: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, director and producer of Spanish cinema.(f 2017).
• March 27: Cyrus Vance, American politician (f. 2002).
• March 27: Miguel Picazo, Spanish filmmaker (f. 2016).
• 27 March: Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian chelist (f. 2007).
• March 31: Alfonso Arana, Puerto Rican painter (f. 2005).
• March 31: César Chávez, a Mexican-American labor activist (f. 1993).
• March 31: William Daniels, American actor.

April

• April 1st: Walter Bahr, American footballer (f. 2018).
• April 2: Ferenc Puskás, Spanish footballer of Hungarian origin (f. 2006).
• April 6: Gerry Mulligan, saxophoneist, clarinetist and American composer (f. 1996).
• April 11: Arnaldo Acosta Bello, Venezuelan poet and writer (f. 1996).
• 16 April: Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)(f.2022)
• 16 April: Benedict XVI, German religious Catholic (f. 2022).
• April 18: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish politician (f. 2013).
• April 18: Samuel Phillips Huntington, American politician (f. 2008).
• April 20: Pedro Beltrán, writer and Spanish actor. (f. 2007).
• April 22: Pascal Bentoiu, Romanian composer and musicologist (f. 2016).
• April 25: Oscar Yanes, Venezuelan writer and journalist (f. 2013).
• April 25: Irene Gutiérrez Caba, Spanish actress (f. 1995).
• April 25: Corín Tellado, Spanish writer (f. 2009).

May

• May 5: Pat Carroll, American actress.(2022)
• May 8: Chumy Chumez, Spanish humorist (f. 2003).
• May 8: László Paskai, the Hungarian cardinal (f. 2015).
• May 9: Juan José Pizzuti, footballer and Argentine coach (f. 2020).
• May 13: Herbert Ross, American filmmaker (f. 2001).
• May 25: Héctor Juan Nervi, Argentine footballer (f. 2011).
• May 27: Rafael Escalona, singer and Colombian composer (f. 2009).

June

Jerry Stiller

• June 4: Lidia Angela Beccaria,'Lidita' mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Zarateña. V. Urquiza City
• June 8: Jerry Stiller, American actor and comedian (f. 2020).
• June 9: Franco Donatoni, Italian composer (f. 2000).
• 10 June: Ladislao Kubala, Spanish footballer of Hungarian origin (f. 2002).
• June 11: Germán Lopezarias, Spanish journalist (f. 2003).
• June 13: Slim Dusty, Australian singer (f. 2003).
• June 15: Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist, poet in Urdu (f. 1978).
• June 17: Lucio Fulci, Italian filmmaker (f. 1996).
• June 19: Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine military (f. 2018).
• June 23: Bob Fosse, actor, choreographer and American filmmaker (f. 1987).

July

• July 3: Juan Antonio Flores Santana, Dominican Archbishop (f. 2014).
• July 4: Neil Simon, American filmmaker (f. 2018).
• 4 July: Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress.(f.2023)
• July 6: Janet Leigh, American actress (f. 2004).
• July 7: Rosa María Moreno, Mexican actress (f. 2006).
• 7 July: Oscar Matus, guitarist and Argentine musical composer (f. 1991).
• July 12: Paixão Côrtes, folklorist, composer, radio announcer and Brazilian agronomist engineer (f. 2018).
• July 12: Oribe Irigoyen, Uruguayan film critic (f. 2014).
• July 13: Simone Veil, a French politician and lawyer (f. 2017).
• July 15: Carmen Zapata, American actress (f. 2014).
• July 18: Antonio García-Trevijano Forte, Spanish political thinker (f. 2018).
• 25 July: Carlos Romero Galiana, doctor and Spanish molinologist (f. 2008).
• July 27: Berta Riaza, Spanish actress.(f.2022)
• 28 July: Ermes Muccinelli, Italian footballer (f. 1994).
• July 29: Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (f. 2010).

August

• 4 August: Arturo Hernández Grisanti, professor, diplomat and Venezuelan politician (f. 2008).
• August 4: José Luis Tejada, Spanish poet (f. 1988).
• August 9: Marvin Minsky, American scientist (f. 2016).
• 9 August: Beatriz Thibaudín, an Argentine film, theatre and television actress (f. 2007).
• August 10: Mario Ojeda Gómez, Mexican academic, President of the College of Mexico (f. 2013).
• August 11: Stuart Rosenberg, American filmmaker (f. 2007).
• August 18: Rosalynn Carter, first lady of the United States.
• August 19: Alejandro Mieres Bustillo, Spanish plastic artist and painter (f. 2018).
• August 21: Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Last Day Saints (since 2008) (f. 2018)
• August 25: Ferruccio Musitelli, photographer and Uruguayan film director (f. 2013).
• August 28: José Climent Barber, Spanish composer and musicologist (f. 2017).

September

• September 9: Elvin Jones, American drummer (f. 2004).
• September 23: Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress.
• September 16: Peter Falk, American actor (f. 2011).
• September 16: Alison de Vere, British animator (f. 2001).
• September 20: John Dankworth, composer, clarinetist and British jazz saxophoneist (f. 2010).
• September 25: Sir Colin Davis, British orchestra director and musician (f. 2013).
• September 27: Romano Scarpa, Italian sketcher (f. 2005).
• September 28: Alicia Raquel Hartridge, First Lady of Argentina between 1976 and 1981 (f. 2021)
• September 29: Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress (f. 2020).

October

• 1 October: Kazuya Sakai, an Argentine painter of Japanese origin (f. 2001).
• October 1st: Tom Bosley, American actor (f. 2010).
• 6 October: Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (f. 2019).
• 7 October: Juan Benet, a Spanish writer (f. 1993).
• October 8: César Milstein, Argentine biochemistry, nobel prize for medicine in 1984 (f. 2002).
• October 8: Juan Eduardo Hohberg, Uruguayan footballer (f. 1996).
• October 14: Roger Moore, British actor (f. 2017).
• October 16: Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 (f. 2015).
• October 17: Luis Alberto Acuña Gatillon, Chilean writer (f. 2005).
• October 19: Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter.
• October 25: Jorge Batlle, Uruguayan lawyer, journalist and politician, president of Uruguay between 2000 and 2005 (f. 2016).
• October 27: Carlos Pinzón, locutor, communicator and Colombian businessman (f. 2020).
• October 29: Pablo Antoñana, a Spanish writer (f. 2009).
• October 31: Lee Grant, American actress.

November

• November 2: Steve Ditko, American cartoonist (f. 2018).
• 7 November: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese entrepreneur (f. 2013).
• 12 November: Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (f. 1958).
• 14 November: José Santos Urriola, Venezuelan professor and writer, founding member of Simón Bolívar University (f. 1994).
• November 14: Narcis Yepes, Spanish guitarist (f. 1997).
• 23 November: Angelo Sodano, Italian Cardinal (f.2022)
• 30 November: Alfonso Barrantes, a Peruvian politician (f. 2000).
• November 30: Robert Guillaume, American actor (f. 2017).
• 30 November: Osvaldo Ribó, Argentine singer of tangos (f. 2015).

December

• December 2: Juan Álemann, Argentine businessman, Minister of Economy of the dictatorship of Videla.
• December 2: Ralph Beard, American basketball player (f. 2007).
• December 4: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (f. 2019).
• December 5: Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thai king (f. 2016).
• December 5: Oscar Míguez, Uruguayan footballer (f. 2006).
• December 8: Conchita Moreno, Venezuelan rejoiner (f. 2007).
• November 8: Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist (f. 1998).
• December 20: Kim Young Sam, Korean President (f. 2015).
• December 23: Horangel (Horacio Germán Tirigall), an Argentine astrologer (f. 2021).
• December 25: Ram Narayan, Indian musician.
• December 30: Robert Hossein, actor, director and French film writer (f. 2020).

Unknown dates

• Victoria Colosio, dancer, choreographer and Argentine tango teacher (f. 2016).

Deaths

• January 3: Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (n. 1856).
• January 19: Carlota of Mexico, Empress of Mexico, wife of Fernando Maximiliano of Habsburg.
• January 28: M. Maryan, French writer (n. 1847).
• February 5: Inayat Khan, Indian Sufi (n. 1882).
• February 9: Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist (n. 1850).
• 2 March: Marie Lipsius The Mara, historian of German music and writer (n. 1837).
• 4 March: Ira Remsen, American chemical (n. 1846).
• March 8: Manuel Gondra, Paraguayan politician (n. 1871).
• 17 March: Victorine Meurent, French painter and painter (n. 1844).
• March 31: Vicente March, Spanish painter (n. 1859).
• April 3: Ezequiel Huerta Gutiérrez, Mexican beato.
• April 3: Marco Fidel Suárez, Colombian president (n. 1855).
• 15 April: Gaston Leroux, a French writer (n. 1868).
• April 20: Enrique Simonet, a Spanish painter (n. 1866).
• April 28: Li Dazhao, Chinese intellectual (n. 1888).
• May 3: David Arellano, Chilean footballer (n. 1902).
• 26 June: Armand Guillaumin, French painter and Lithograph (n. 1841).
• July 3: Enrique Gavira Cano Iribarne, Spanish bullfighter (n.1893).
• July 5: Albrecht Kossel, German physician, nobel medical prize in 1910 (n. 1853).
• July 10: Louise Abbéma, French painter and designer (n. 1853).
• 10 July: B. Lewis Rice, archaeologist and indobritanical linguist (f. 1837).
• August 11: Federico Madariaga, a Spanish military and writer (n. 1849).
• August 18: Sascha Schneider, German painter and illustrator (n. 1870).
• September 14: Hugo Ball, German Dadaist poet (n. 1886).
• 28 September: Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, nobel medical prize in 1924 (n. 1860).
• 2 October: Svante August Arrhenius, Swedish chemical, nobel chemistry award in 1903 (n. 1859).
• 12 October: Bernardino Nozaleda, Dominican religious and Spanish archbishop (n. 1844).
• 23 November: Miguel Agustin Pro, a Jesuit priest martyr and Mexican Blessed (n. 1891).
• December 24: Vladimir Mikhailóvich Béjterev, neurophysiologist and Russian psychiatrist (n. 1857).
• December 29: Francesco Flores D'Arcais, Italian mathematician (n. 1849).

Art and literature

• Agatha Christie: The four grand.
• Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sherlock Holmes Archive.
• William Faulkner: Mosquitos.
• Federico García Lorca: Mariana Pineda.
• Hermann Hesse: The wolf (Der Steppenwolf).
• James Joyce
• Franz Kafka: America (posthumously published).
• Antonio Machado and Manuel Machado: Juan de Mañara.
• Upton Sinclair: Petroleum!.
• Virginia Woolf: The lighthouse.
• Generation of 27
• Martin Heidegger: Being and time

Science and technology

• Sigmund Freud - The future of illusion.

Sports

• The Professional Football Club of the University of Chile is founded.
• The Mirandés Sports Club is founded.
• The Blue Cross Sports Club is founded.
• American Sports Corporation
• The Maipú Sports Club of Mendoza is founded
• National takes a tour of America, obtaining successes similar to those of the 1925 European Tour.
• Cycling: Alfredo Binda wins the first World Cycling Championship in Nürburgring.
• The Atlético Club San Martín is founded.

Cinema

• Film premiere MetropolisFritz Lang.
• Louis B. Mayer founded the Academy of Arts and Film Sciences.
• Film premiere The jazz singerAlan Crosland.
• Film by Josef von Sternberg and Clarence G. Badger and interpreted by Clara Bow: It (film of 1927)

Music

• Meade Lux Lewis records the first version of "Honky Tonk Train Blues".

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
• Chemistry: Heinrich Otto Wieland.
• Medicine: Julius Wagner-Jauregg.
• Literature: Henri Bergson.
• Peace: Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde.