1927 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Plutarco Elías Calles

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Isaac Díaz de León
• Campeche: Ángel Castillo Lanz/Silvestre Pavón Silva
• Chiapas: Luis P. Vidal/Federico Martínez Rojas
• Chihuahua: Jesús Antonio Almeida/Manuel Mascareñas/Fernando Orozco
• Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño
• Colima: Laureano Cervantes
• Durango:
• Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
• Guerrero: Héctor F. López
• Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez
• Jalisco: Enrique Cuervo/Daniel R. Benítez/Margarito Ramírez
• State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio
• Michoacán: : Enrique Ramírez Aviña
• Morelos: Ambrosio Puente
• Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
• Nuevo León: José Benítez
• Oaxaca: Genaro V. Vázquez
• Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo
• Querétaro: Abraham Araujo
• San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
• Sinaloa: vacant
• Sonora: Fausto Topete
• Tabasco: Tomás Taracena Hernández
• Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón
• Tlaxcala: Ignacio Mendoza
• Veracruz: Abel S. Rodríguez
• Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
• Zacatecas: Fernando Rodarte

Events

• January 1 – Cristero War: Rebellion begins with a manifesto issued by René Capistrán Garza.
• Sara García makes her only screen appearance between 1918 and 1933, as an extra in Yo soy tu padre.

Births

• January 1 – Raúl Valerio, actor
• February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana;
• February 4 — Enrique Cárdenas González, politician, Governor of Tamaulipas .
• August 27 – Adolfo Mexiac, graphic artist.
• August 28 — Claudio Brook, actor, winner of two Ariel Awards.
• September 15 – Ricardo Miledi, neuro-scientist .
• October 26 – Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, politician
• October 28 – Rafael Gallardo García, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico, d. January 30, 2021
• November 27 – Sergio Bravo, footballer

Deaths

• January 17 – Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo, Catholic priest
• February 6 – Mateo Correa Magallanes, Catholic priest.
• April 1 – José Dionisio Luis Padilla Gómez, priest
• April 21 – Román Adame Rosales
• April 27 – Anacleto González Flores, lawyer
• May 25 – Cristóbal Magallanes Jara and Agustín Caloca Cortés
• June 26 – José María Robles Hurtado, Catholic priest
• August 7 – Miguel de la Mora de la Mora, Catholic priest
• October 28 – Rodrigo Aguilar Alemán, Catholic priest
• November 13 – Miguel Pro, Catholic priest