1927 in Mexico

Events from the year 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 (d. 2017)
• February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; (d. 2017)
• February 4 — Enrique Cárdenas González, politician (PRI), Governor of Tamaulipas (1975-1981) (d. 2018).
• August 27 – Adolfo Mexiac, graphic artist (d. 2019).
• August 28 — Claudio Brook, actor, winner of two Ariel Awards (d. 1995).
• September 15 – Ricardo Miledi, neuro-scientist (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y de la Academia Nacional de Medicina de México) (d. 2017).
• October 26 – Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, politician (d. 2000)
• October 28 – Rafael Gallardo García, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares (1974-1987) and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico (1987-2003), d. January 30, 2021
• November 27 – Sergio Bravo, footballer

Deaths

• January 17 – Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo, Catholic priest (born 1886; executed by the Mexican military during the Cristero War)
• February 6 – Mateo Correa Magallanes, Catholic priest (born 1866; executed).
• April 1 – José Dionisio Luis Padilla Gómez, priest (born 1899; executed)
• April 21 – Román Adame Rosales (born 1859; executed)
• April 27 – Anacleto González Flores, lawyer (born 1888; executed)
• May 25 – Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (born 1869; executed) and Agustín Caloca Cortés (born 1898; Catholic priests, executed)
• June 26 – José María Robles Hurtado, Catholic priest (born 1888; executed)
• August 7 – Miguel de la Mora de la Mora, Catholic priest (executed)
• October 28 – Rodrigo Aguilar Alemán, Catholic priest (executed)
• November 13 – Miguel Pro, Catholic priest (executed)

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