26 September – David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier (1885) catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.[2]
16 January – Haldane Burgess historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history (born 1862)[5]
15 September – Green's Playhouse opens in Glasgow, the largest cinema in Europe at this date.[6]
Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, showing the effect of the General Strike on the Fife coal mining community, is first performed; and his The Image o' God and Other Poems is published.
^"Court Circular". The Times. No. 44632. London. 13 July 1927. p. 19.
^"Whales at Bonar Bridge". Tain Through Time. Tain Museum Image Library. 26 February 2004. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.