1977

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1977 by topic:

Arts

Architecture - Art - Film - Literature Music (Country, UK) - Television - Home video

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science

By country

Australia - Canada - France - Germany - India Ireland - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Pakistan Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe

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Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album).

1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates 2 Births 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March-April 2.4 May-June 2.5 July 2.6 August-September 2.7 October-November 2.8 December 3 Deaths 3.1 January-March 3.2 April-June 3.3 July-September 3.4 October-December 4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship events

Events

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• January 10 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
• January 10 - Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.
• January 15 - Kälvesta air disaster: A Swedish airliner crashes into a residential area of Stockholm, killing all 22 on board.
• January 17 - Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the USA).
• January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease".
• January 18 - Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
• January 19 - U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose").
• January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida (despite its ordinarily tropical climate) for the only time in its history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii.
• January 20 - Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.
• January 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
• January 23 - The television miniseries Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.
• January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial UK punk rock group the Sex Pistols.

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• February 4 - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.
• February 7 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yuri Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.
• February 10 - Queen Elizabeth II visits American Samoa.
• February 11 - A 20.2-kg (44-lb.-9-oz.) lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean).
• February 11 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Western Samoa.
• February 14 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Tonga.
• February 16 - February 17 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Fiji.
• February 18 - The space shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
• February 22 - March 7 - Queen Elizabeth II visits New Zealand.
• February 28 - State Opening of the New Zealand Parliament, by Queen Elizabeth II.

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• March 4 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake kills 1,500.
• March 5 - Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with a marshall at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami.
• March 7 - March 30 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Australia.
• March 8 - State Opening of the Australian Parliament, Canberra by Queen Elizabeth II.
• March 9 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, DC, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
• March 12 - The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• March 15 - The television show Three's Company debuts on ABC.
• March 15 - Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini's La Boheme.
• March 17 - March 23 - Prince Charles visits Ghana.
• March 23 - March 25 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Papua New Guinea.
• March 27 - Tenerife disaster: a collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 (the worst plane crash ever).
• March 31 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Muscat.

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• April 1 - Hay-on-Wye declares independence.
• April 7 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. "The Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.
• April 7 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first-ever game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.
• April 8 - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.
• April 11 - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
• April 22 - First use of optical fiber to carry live telephone traffic.
• April 27 - The Guatemala City air disaster kills 28 people.
• April 28 - A Stuttgart court sentences RAF members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.

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• May 3 - HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Queen Elizabeth II.
• May 5 - Silver Jubilee review of the British police at Hendon Police College by Queen Elizabeth II.
• May 7 - Pierre Elliot Trudeau does a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.
• May 7 - Marie Myriam wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 for France with her song L'oiseau et l'enfant ("The Bird and the Child").
• May 13 - The Silver Jubilee Air Fair is held at Biggin Hill.
• May 14 - The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all 6 on board.
• May 14 - In Milan, Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, some hooded extremist shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture [1] of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.
• May 17 - The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the elections in Israel.
• May 17 - Queen Elizabeth II commences her Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
• May 18 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Cumbernauld and Stirling.
• May 19 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Perth and Dundee.
• May 23 - Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin.
• May 23 - Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train in Bovensmilde-Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train; 6 terrorists and 2 hostages are killed.
• May 23 - May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Edinburgh.
• May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas (later renamed Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) and becomes a blockbuster hit.
• May 26 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
• May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
• May 27 - An Aeroflot plane crashes in Cuba, killing 69 people.
• May 28 - Climax of Windsor celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II visits the town during her Silver Jubilee tour.
• May 28 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
• May 29 - Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: A.J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win a to date record four times.
• May 30 - A gala performance for the Silver Jubilee is held at the Royal Opera House, London.

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• June 5 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
• June 5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
• June 6-June 9 - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign.
• June 7 - After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her anti-gay "Save Our Children" crusade, Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's gay rights ordinance, igniting a wave of violence against gays across the United States.
• June 10 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee (he is recaptured on June 13).
• June 15 - Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years under the Franco regime.
• June 20 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
• June 20 - Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary "Alternative 3", which enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
• June 22 - Robert Hillsborough, a gay San Franciscan, is brutally stabbed to death just steps from his home by 4 youths.
• June 25 - American Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the 7th time.
• June 26 - Some 200,000 protesters march through the streets of San Francisco, protesting Anita Bryant's anti-gay remarks and Robert Hillsborough's murder.

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• July 4 - Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sensationally sacked by the club's directors.
• July 5 - General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrows Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the very first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
• July 15 - Anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, New South Wales (presumed murdered).
• July 22 - The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power as the "Gang of Four" is expelled from the Communist Party of China.
• July 28 - The first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska.
• July 30 - Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht[2], Brigitte Mohnhaupt[3] and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto[4], chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.

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• August 3 - United States Senate hearings on MKULTRA are held.
• August 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• August 10 - David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over one year of murders in New York City as the Son Of Sam.
• August 12 - The NASA Space Shuttle makes its first test flight off the back of a jetliner.
• August 15 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "WOW!" signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• August 16 - Music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee.
• August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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• September 3 - The Commodore PET computer is first sold.
• September 5 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• September 5 - German Autumn: Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Employers Association, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill 3 escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.
• September 6 - Steve Biko suffers a massive head injury in police custody in South Africa.
• September 7 - Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• September 8 - INTERPOL issues a resolution against the piracy of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs today.
• September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France.
• September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.
• September 16 - Talking Heads' debut album Talking Heads: 77 is released.
• September 21 - A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the USSR.
• September 28 - The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention.

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• October 13 - German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction. (See Lufthansa Flight 181)
• October 17-October 18 - German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm a hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; 3 of the 4 hijackers die.
• October 18 - German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried October 27.
• October 18 - Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to World Series victory.
• October 19 - German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer is found killed in Mulhouse, France.
• October 20 - Three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi.
• October 21 - The European Patent Institute is founded.
• October 26 - The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.
• October 28 - Hong Kong police forces attack the ICAC headquarters.
• October 28 - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the UK.

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• November 2 - The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.
• November 6 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia fails, killing 39.
• November 10 - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the U.S..
• November 19 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement (much of the Arab world is outraged by the visit).
• November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

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• December 1 - First flight of Lockheed's top-secret stealth project aircraft designated Have Blue, the precursor to the US F-117A Nighthawk.
• December 4 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor.
• December 4 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashed in Johor, Malaysia, killing 100.
• December 4 - The film Saturday Night Fever is released.
• December 16 - Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker is shown on television for the first time (on CBS). Over the years, it will become the most often watched television production of the ballet, eventually switching over to PBS.

Unknown dates

• 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal.
• Color TV Game 6 is created by Nintendo.
• Portugal's traditional naming conventions change such that children's surnames can come from either the mother or the father, not just from the father.
• Chiara Lubich is awarded the Templeton Prize.
• Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24 year period, with Stalin's name omitted.
• Eurocommunism seeks to redefine Marxism in Western Europe.
• Australian rock group INXS is formed.

Births

January

• January 1 - Jerry Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
• January 3 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
• January 7 - Michelle Behennah, British model
• January 7 - John Gidding, American actor and architect
• January 7 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
• January 8 - Amber Benson, American actress
• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, British actor
• January 18- Curtis Cregan, American actor
• January 22 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• January 26 - Vince Carter, American basketball player
• January 28 - Lyle Overbay, American Baseball player
• January 28 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
• January 28 - Joey Fatone, American musician
• January 31 - Mark Dutiaume, Canadian hockey player

February

• February 2 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician
• February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician
• February 3 - Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican musician
• February 5 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor
• February 8 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
• February 8 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
• February 11 - Randy Moss, American football player
• February 11 - Mike Shinoda, American musician
• February 16 - Ian Clarke, Irish computer scientist
• February 18 - Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter
• February 19 - Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
• February 20 - Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
• February 21 - Kevin Rose, American television host
• February 23 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian skier

March-April

• March 1 - Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
• March 2 - Heather McComb, American actress
• March 3 - Ronan Keating, Irish singer
• March 4 - Jason Marsalis, American jazz musician
• March 5 - Wally Szczerbiak, Spanish-born basketball player
• March 7 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
• March 8 - James Van Der Beek, American Actor
• March 10- Colin Murray, British radio disc jockey
• March 11 - Becky Hammon, American basketball player
• March 11 - Jason Greeley, Canadian singer
• March 16 - Ben Kenney, bassist of the US american alternative rock band Incubus
• March 18 - Zdeno Chara, Czechoslovakian ( now Slovakia) hockey player
• April 9 - Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
• April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
• April 14 - Chandra Levy, American federal government intern (d. 2001)
• April 16 - Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
• April 21 - Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
• April 23 - Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman
• April 23 - Andruw Jones, Antillean baseball player
• April 23 - John Cena, American professional wrestler
• April 24 - Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
• April 24 - Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ, Belarusian writer
• April 26 - Jason Earles, American actor
• April 26 - Tom Welling, American actor

May-June

• May 10 - Nick Heidfeld, German race car driver
• May 12 - Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player
• May 13 - Samantha Morton, British actress
• May 14 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player
• May 14 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
• May 23 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
• May 26 - Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
• May 28 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talkshow host
• May 30 - Rachael Stirling British actress
• May 31 - Joel Ross, British disc jockey
• May 31 - Debbie King, British television presenter
• June 1 - Danielle Harris, American voice actress
• June 7 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
• June 8 - Kanye West, American rapper and record producer
• June 9 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• June 9 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• June 14 - Chris McAlister, American football player
• June 16 - Kerry Wood, baseball player
• June 19 - Peter Warrick, American football player
• June 20 - Stefán H. Ófeigsson, Icelandic engineer
• June 27 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
• June 27 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer

July

• July 1 - Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, American actress
• July 8 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
• July 8 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
• July 11 - Edward Moss, American impersonator
• July 12 - Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
• July 14 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
• July 15 - Ray Toro, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
• July 17 - M.I.A., English musician
• July 18 - David Straitjacket, English stunt performer
• July 26 - Rebecca St James, Australian-born musician
• July 27 - Martha Anne Madison, American actress
• July 28 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
• July 30 - Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player
• July 31 - Tim Couch, American football player

August-September

• August 2 - Dave Farrel, American musician
• August 2 - Edward Furlong, American actor
• August 3 - Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
• August 3 - Tom Brady, American football player
• August 9 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
• August 10 - Danny Griffin, Irish footballer
• August 12 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
• August 13 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
• August 15 - Nicole Paggi, American actress
• August 15 - Martin Biron, Canadian hockey
• August 15 - Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
• August 17 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
• August 17 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
• August 25 - Jonathan Togo, American actor
• August 26 - Morris Peterson, American basketball player
• August 27 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
• August 30 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
• August 31 - Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
• September 1 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
• September 11 - Ludacris, American rapper
• September 13 - Fiona Apple, American musician
• September 15 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer and songwriter
• September 20 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
• September 27 - Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
• September 28 - Se Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
• September 30 - Roy Carroll, Irish footballer

October-November

• October 7 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
• October 11 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader
• October 12 - Bode Miller, American skiier
• October 14 - Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
• October 16 - John Mayer, American musician
• October 18 - Paul Stalteri, Canadian footballer
• October 25 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
• October 29 - Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
• November 1 - Alistair Griffin, British singer and songwriter
• November 2 - Randy Harrison, American actor
• November 3 - Aria Giovanni, American model and actress
• November 5 - Brittney Skye, American actress
• November 6 - Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
• November 10 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
• November 13 - Chanel Cole, New Zealand-born singer
• November 14 - Obie Trice, American rapper
• November 16 - Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
• November 17 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
• November 19 - Kerri Strug, American gymnast
• November 21 - Jonas Jennings, American football player
• November 22 - Michael Preston, English footballer
• November 24 - Colin Hanks, American actor
• November 26 - Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
• November 28 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player

December

• December 3 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper
• December 6 - Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
• December 7 - Fernando Vargas, American boxer
• December 8 - Ryan Newman, American race car driver
• December 10 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
• December 11 - Peter Stringer, Irish rugby player
• December 12 - Dahm triplets:
  • Erica, American model
  • Jaclyn, American model
  • Nicole, American model
• December 13 - Christopher Hudgens, American Painter
• December 13 - Ahmed al-Nami, Saudi Arabian hijacker (d. 2001)
• December 14 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
• December 23 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
• December 29 - Laveranues Coles, American football player
• December 30 - Laila Ali, American boxer
• December 30 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player

Deaths

January-March

• January 2 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
• January 14 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
• January 14 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
• January 14 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
• January 17 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (executed) (b. 1940)
• January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1895)
• January 21 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
• January 29 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
• January 29 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
• February 4 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
• February 11 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902)
• February 16 - Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
• February 27 - Allison Hayes, American actress (b. 1930)
• February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
• March 4 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
• March 5 - Tom Pryce, British Formula Race Car Driver (b. 1949)
• March 11 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
• March 16 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
• March 18 - Marien Ngouabi, President of The Republic of the Congo (assassinated) (b. 1938)
• March 22 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
• March 26 - Madeleine Dring, British composer and actress
• March 30 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)

April-June

• April 17 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913)
• April 21 - Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
• May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• May 9 - James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
• May 10 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
• June 2 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
• June 3 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• June 16 - Werner von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
• June 19 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (b. 1889)
• June 19 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)

July-September

• July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
• July 9 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (b. 1885)
• July 13 - Carl Gustav von Rosen, Swedish pilot (b. 1909)
• July 23 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1915)
• August 3 - Makarios III, Cypriot Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b.1913)
• August 4 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• August 14 - Ron Haydock, American actor, writer, and musician (b. 1940)
• August 16 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
• August 19 - Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• September 1 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
• September 6 - John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885)
• September 12 - Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
• September 13 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
• September 16 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
• September 16 - Maria Callas, American-born soprano (b. 1923)

October-December

• October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
• October 20 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
  • Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
  • Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
  • Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
• October 27 - Tony Hulman, American businessman and racetrack owner (b. 1901)
• November 5 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
• November 8 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (b. 1896)
• November 11 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born singer and actress (b. 1903)
• November 15 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (b. 1898)
• November 25 - Tommy Prince, Canadian war hero (b. 1915)
• December 15 - Wilfred Kitching, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
• December 19 - Jacques Tourneur, French director (b. 1904)
• December 24 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (b. 1917)
• December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, English-born comedian (b. 1889)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck
• Chemistry - Ilya Prigogine
• Physiology or Medicine - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
• Literature - Vicente Aleixandre
• Peace - Amnesty International
• Economics - Bertil Ohlin, James Meade

Ship events

• List of ship launches in 1977
• List of ship commissionings in 1977
• List of ship decommissionings in 1977