Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Births
- February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director
- February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal, pianist/professor
- February 26 - Johnny Cash, country music singer
- April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
- Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)
Deaths
Events
- Kennedy and Thorndike prove that measured time as well length are affected by motion (see Einstein's Special relativity and General relativity).
- Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
- Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
- Medicine - [[Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
- Literature -John Galsworthy
- Peace - Not awarded.