List of Famous people who died in 1927

Archie Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.

Charles Boissevain was a journalist, editor and part-owner of the Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad, a leading newspaper of the time. From 1872 he was on the editorial board of the literary journal De Gids.

Camille Blanc, was a French municipal leader, with many interests in Monaco. From 1904 to 1925, he was founding mayor of Beausoleil, a town adjacent to Monte Carlo, which had previously formed part of La Turbie and had been known as Monte-Carlo-Supérieur.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

Consuelo Fould was a French painter.

Yusef ben Hassan was a Sultan of the Alaouite dynasty. He ruled Morocco from 1912 until his death in 1927.

Louise Catherine Breslau was a German-born Swiss painter, who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and exhibited at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where she became a respected colleague of noted figures such as Edgar Degas and Anatole France.

George Nichols sometimes credited in films as George O. Nicholls was an American actor and film director. He appeared in 221 films between 1908 and 1928. He also directed 103 films between 1911 and 1916. He was born in Rockford, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California. He, along with Henry "Pathe" Lehrman, became an arch-enemy of Charlie Chaplin, who would take direction from nobody while at Keystone Studios. 'Pops', as he was known, was often cast as father to Mabel Normand. With his wife Viola Alberti, who he married in 1896, he is the father of another prolific director George Nicholls Jr. sometimes also credited as George Nichols, Jr..