1977 Explained

Also: 1977 (album) by Ash.1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1977 Gregorian calendar).

Events of 1977

January

• January 1 - The Australian state of Queensland abolishes death duties.
• January 3 - Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated.
• January 9 - Super Bowl XI: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Minnesota Vikings 32-14 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
• January 10 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Full 1977 calendar

• 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 U.S.).
• January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
• January 18 - Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
• January 18 - SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 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 - Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.
• January 24 - The Massacre of Atocha occurs during the Spanish transition to democracy.
• January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
• January 28 - The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, New York.
• January 29 - Actor Freddie Prinze dies from a self inflicted bullet wound.
• January 31 - The Centre Georges Pompidou is officially opened by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

February

• 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 11 - A 20.2-kg (44-lb.-9-oz.) lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (the heaviest known crustacean).
• 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 18 - Prog 1 of 2000 AD, currently the UK's longest running comic, is launched (issue dated 26 February 1977).

• February 28 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the New Zealand Parliament.

March

• March 4 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake kills 1,500.
• March 5 - Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with a track marshal at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami.
• March 8 - The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia.
• March 9 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., 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 - 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 26 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson.
• March 27 - Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 (the worst single aviation accident on record).

April

• April 1 - Hay-on-Wye declares independence as a publicity stunt.
• April 4 - Grundy, Virginia experienced a major flood that that made around $15 million in damages to 228 residental and commercial structures.To date the town is still recovering.
• April 7 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 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 - The punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash (album) is released in the UK on CBS Records.
• April 11 - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
• April 22 - Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
• April 27 - The Guatemala City air disaster kills 28 people.
• April 28 - A Stuttgart court sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.

May

• May 1 - The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths, hundreds of injuries.
• May 3 - The HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• 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 14 - The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all 6 on board.
• May 14 - In Milan, Italy, during a far-left demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonio Custra. The scene is photographed and the picture http://img135.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=32481_2_122_540lo.jpg of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street appears in many magazines around the world.
• May 17 - The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the elections in Israel.
• May 17 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom commences her 1977 Silver Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
• 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 on the 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 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.
• May 26 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
• May 27 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
• May 27 - The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people.
• May 28 - The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
• May 29 - Indianapolis 500: A.J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win a (to date) record 4 times.

June

• June 5 - A coup takes place in the Seychelles.
• June 5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
• June 5 - The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the NBA finals 4–2. Bill Walton is named series MVP.
• June 6–9 - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate 25 years of Elizabeth II's reign.
• June 7 - After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her anti-gay "Save Our Children" crusade, Miami-Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's gay rights ordinance.
• 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 16 - Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• 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 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 the murder of Robert Hillsborough.
• June 29 - Artina "Peachy" J. Trader was born

July

• July 1 - CKO (a now-defunct Canadian all news radio network) begins broadcasting.
• July 5 - General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrows Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• July 13 - The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.
• July 15 - Anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, New South Wales (presumed murdered).
• July 19 to July 20 - Flooding in Johnstown, PA, caused by massive rainfall, kills over 75 people and causes billions in damage.
• July 22 - The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power 9 months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.
• July 24 - Led Zeppelin plays their last U.S. concert in Oakland, CA at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and promoter Bill Graham's staff, resulting in criminal assault charges for several of Led Zeppelin's entourage including drummer John Bonham.
• July 28 - The first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska.
• July 30 - Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrechthttp://www.baader-meinhof.com/who/terrorists/raf/albrechtsusanne.html, Brigitte Mohnhaupthttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mohnhaupt and a third person assassinate Jürgen Pontohttp://www.dresdner-bank.com/content/03_unternehmen/05_gesellschaftliches_engagement/02_ponto_stiftung/, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.

August

• August 3 - United States Senate hearings on MKULTRA are held.
• August 3 - The Tandy Corporation TRS-80 Model I computer is announced at a press conference.
• August 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• August 9 - The military-controlled government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
• August 10 - David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son Of Sam.
• August 12 - The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).
• August 15 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by 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 15 - Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.
• August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

September

• 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: Employers Association President Hanns-Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill 3 escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction (RAF) prisoners.
• September 6 - Steve Biko suffers a massive head injury in police custody in South Africa, later dying.
• 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 16 - Talking Heads' debut album is released.
• September 18 - Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps Australia (Australia) in the 24th America's Cup.
• September 19 - Under pressure from the Carter Administration, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.
• September 21 - A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.
• September 28 - The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention.
• September 29 - The modern Food Stamp Program begins when the Food Stamp Act of 1977 is enacted.

October

• October 1 - Pelé plays his final professional football game as a member of the New York Cosmos.
• October 13 - German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members (see Lufthansa Flight 181).
• October 14 - The Atari 2600 game system is released.
• October 14 - David Bowie releases his album "Heroes".
• October 17–18 - 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 - Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, opens the 3rd session of the 30th Canadian Parliament.
• 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 murdered in Mulhouse, France.
• October 20 - Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, 3 days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.
• October 21 - The European Patent Institute is founded.
• October 26 - The last natural smallpox case 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 United Kingdom.

November

• November 1 - 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.

• 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 8 - Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
• November 8 - San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.
• November 9 - Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided.
• November 18 - The National Women's Conference convenes in Houston, Texas.
• November 19 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
• November 19 - TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.
• November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
• November 22 - TCP/IP test succeeds connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.^[1]

December

• December 1 - The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U.S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.
• December 1- The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.
• December 4 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor.
• December 4 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.

• December 13 - A DC-3 charter plane carrying the University of Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tenn., crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff from Evansville Dress Regional Airport. Twenty-nine people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.
• December 16 - Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of The Nutcracker, adapted from his stage version, and in which he stars with Gelsey Kirkland and the American Ballet Theatre, is shown on television for the first time by CBS. It later moves to PBS, where it becomes an annual attraction for many years. The production eventually becomes the most popular video version of the ballet.

Undated

• 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.
• The Usu volcano erupts in Japan.
• Chiara Lubich is awarded the Templeton Prize.
• The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24 year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.
• Mormon sex in chains case with the alleged abduction in England of a young Mormon missionary.

Full 1977 calendar

Ongoing

• Cold War

Births

January–February

• January 2 - Gavin Mahon, English footballer
• January 2 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
• January 3 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
• January 3 - A. J. Burnett, American baseball player
• January 4 - Tim Wheeler, Irish Musician
• 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 11 - Nadia Turner, American singer
• January 11 - Anni Friesinger, German speed skater
• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, British actor
• January 18 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
• January 20 - Melody, Belgian singer
• January 21 - Jerry Trainor, American actor
• January 22 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• January 25 - The-Dream, African-American singer
• 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 2 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician
• February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician
• February 2 - Jessica Wahls, German pop singer
• February 3 - Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican musician
• February 5 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor
• February 5 - Ahmad Merritt, American football player
• February 7 - Paul Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
• February 8 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
• February 8 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
• February 8 - Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
• February 11 - Randy Moss, American football player
• February 11 - Mike Shinoda, American rock musician (Linkin Park)
• 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 20 - Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
• February 21 - Kevin Rose, American television host
• February 23 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian skier
• February 24 - Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxing champion
• February 27 - Ji Sung, South Korean actor

March–April

• March 1 - Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
• March 2 - Chris Martin, British rock musician (Coldplay)
• March 2 - Heather McComb, American actress
• March 3 - Ronan Keating, Irish singer (Boyzone)
• March 4 - Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete
• March 4 - Daniel Klewer, German footballer
• March 4 - Jason Marsalis, American jazz musician
• March 4 - Russell Taylor, British cartoonist
• March 5 - Wally Szczerbiak, Spanish-born basketball player
• March 6 - Francisco Javier Fernandez, Spanish race walker
• March 6 - Santino Marella, American wrestler
• March 6 - Keith O'Neill, Irish-born rugby impersonator
• March 7 - Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
• March 7 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
• March 8 - James Van Der Beek, American actor
• March 10 - Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
• March 10 - Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
• March 10 - Colin Murray, British radio disc jockey
• March 10 - Matt Rubano, American rock bassist (Taking Back Sunday)
• March 11 - Becky Hammon, American basketball player
• March 11 - Jason Greeley, Canadian singer
• March 15 - Joe Hahn, American rock DJ (Linkin Park)
• March 15 - Norifumi Yamamoto, Japanese mixed martial artist
• March 15 - Adrian Burnside, Australian baseball player
• March 16 - Ben Kenney, American rock bassist (Incubus)
• March 16 - Alyson Kiperman, American actress
• March 18 - Zdeno Chara, Czechoslovakian (now Slovakia) hockey player
• March 23 - Sammy Morris, American football player
• March 24 - Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player
• March 27 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• March 27 - Roger Velasco, American actor
• April 1 - Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• April 4 - Stephen Mulhern, British musician, TV presenter
• April 9 - Gerard Way, American rock singer (My Chemical Romance)
• April 12 - Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier
• April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
• April 14 - Chandra Levy, American federal government intern (d. 2001)
• April 15 - Dejan Milojevic, Serbian basketball player
• 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, actor and singer
• 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 3 - Ben Olsen, American footballer
• May 4 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
• May 5 - Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress
• May 8 - Joe Bonamassa, American musician
• May 8 - Pepe Sánchez, Argentine basketball player
• May 9 - Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
• May 10 - Nick Heidfeld, German race car driver
• May 10 - Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian (The Chaser)
• May 11 - Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
• May 11 - Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
• May 11 - Megahn Perry, American actress
• May 12 - Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player
• May 12 - Rebecca Herbst, American actress
• May 13 - Samantha Morton, British actress
• May 14 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player
• May 14 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
• May 17 - Kandi Burruss, African-American R&B singer
• May 19 - Brandon Inge, American baseball player
• May 20 - Matt Czuchry, American actor
• May 21 - Jamie Rickers, British television presenter
• May 23 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
• May 24 - Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thai tennis player
• May 26 - Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
• May 26 - Luca Toni, Italian footballer
• May 27 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
• May 27 - Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player
• May 28 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host
• May 30 - Rachael Stirling, British actress
• May 31 - Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player
• May 31 - Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
• May 31 - Debbie King, British television presenter
• May 31 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician
• May 31 - Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 31 - Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete
• May 31 - Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
• May 31 - Joel Ross, British disc jockey
• May 31 - June Sarpong, British television presenter
• May 31 - Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
• May 31 - Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player
• June 1 - Danielle Harris, American actress
• June 2 - Zachary Quinto, American actor
• June 4 - Jordan Bratman, American celebrity
• June 5 - Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
• June 7 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer
• June 8 - Kanye West, African-American rapper and record producer
• June 9 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• June 9 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• June 10 - Adam Darski, Polish musician (aka Nergal, Holocausto)
• June 11 - Shane Meier, Canadian actor
• June 11 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
• June 13 - Selwyn Ward, American actor
• June 14 - Chris McAlister, American football player
• June 16 - Kerry Wood, American baseball player
• June 19 - Peter Warrick, American football player
• June 20 - Aaron Moule, Australian rugby league player
• June 21 - Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
• June 23 - Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter
• June 27 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
• June 27 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
• June 28 - Mark Stoermer, American rock guitarist (The Killers)
• June 28 - Harun Tekin, Turkish rock vocalist and guitarist (Mor ve Ötesi)

July–August

• July 1 - Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, American actress
• July 2 - Ricardo Medina, Jr., American actor
• July 7 - Felix Vasquez, American housing authority worker and hero
• July 8 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
• July 8 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
• July 10 - Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
• July 11 - Edward Moss, American impersonator
• July 12 - Peter Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player
• July 12 - Airin Older, American musician
• July 12 - Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
• July 14 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
• July 15 - Ray Toro, American rock guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
• July 16 - Bryan Budd, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 2006)
• July 17 - M.I.A., English musician
• July 18 - David Straitjacket, English stunt performer
• July 18 - Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
• July 19 - Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
• July 21 - Paul Casey, English golfer
• July 24 - Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
• July 26 - Rebecca St James, Australian-born Christian musician
• July 27 - Martha Anne Madison, American actress
• July 28 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
• July 30 - Jaime Pressly, American actress
• July 30 - Ian Watkins, American rock lead singer (Lostprophets)
• July 31 - Tim Couch, American football player
• 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 7 - Twins Samantha Ronson and Charlotte Ronson, British DJ and designer
• August 9 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
• August 10 - Danny Griffin, Irish footballer
• August 12 - Plaxico Burress, African-American football player
• August 13 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
• August 15 - Nicole Paggi, American actress
• August 15 - Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player
• August 15 - Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
• August 16 - Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor
• August 17 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
• August 17 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
• August 18 - Lukas Bauer, Czech cross-country skier
• August 20 - Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
• August 20 - Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
• August 20 - Henning Stensrud, Norwegian ski jumper
• August 24 - Per Gade, Danish footballer
• August 24 - Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
• August 24 - Jonathan Togo, American actor
• August 26 - Morris Peterson, American basketball player
• August 27 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
• August 30 - Shaun Alexander, American football player
• August 30 - Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
• August 30 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
• August 31 - Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
• August 31 - Craig Nicholls, Australian rocker and songwriter

September–October

• September 1 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
• September 1 - Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
• September 1 - Chris Cain, American rock bassist (We Are Scientists)
• September 2 - Frédéric Kanouté, Mali soccer player
• September 2 - Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
• September 4 - Lucie Silvas, English singer
• September 6 - Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
• September 11 - Ludacris, African-American rapper
• September 13 - Fiona Apple, American musician
• September 15 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
• September 18 - Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman
• September 18 - Sara Haines, Online Correspondent, NBC News TODAY Show
• September 19 - Ioana Maria Lupascu, Romanian pianist
• September 20 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
• September 21 - Hank Fraley, American football player
• September 22 - Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league player
• September 23 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
• September 23 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (murdered) (d. 2008)
• September 24 - Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, American football player
• September 27 - Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
• September 28 - Se Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
• September 28 - Ivana Bozilovic, Serbian model and actress
• September 30 - Maia Brewton, American actress
• September 30 - Roy Carroll, Irish footballer
• October 1 - Owen Biddle, rock bass guitarist (The Roots)
• October 6 - Daniel Briere, Canadian ice hockey player
• October 7 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
• October 9 - Hicham Chami, Moroccan financier and musician
• October 11 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader
• October 12 - Bode Miller, American skier
• October 13 - Paul Pierce, American basketball player
• October 14 - Adam Pengilly, Bristish skeleton racer
• October 14 - Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian latex model
• October 14 - Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
• October 16 - John Mayer, American musician
• October 18 - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
• October 18 - Paul Stalteri, Canadian footballer
• October 20 - Stewart Petrie Scottish Actor
• October 22 - Elizabeth Kucinich, American wife of Dennis Kucinich
• October 25 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
• October 26 - Jon Heder, American actor
• October 26 - Louis Crayton, Swiss/Liberian footballer
• October 27 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• October 28 - Jonas Rasmussen, Danish badminton player
• October 29 - Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
• October 30 - Charmian Faulkner, missing Australian toddler

November–December

• November 1 - Alistair Griffin, British singer and songwriter
• November 2 - John Pickard, British actor
• November 2 - Randy Harrison, American actor
• November 3 - Aria Giovanni, American model and actress
• November 4 - Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
• November 5 - Brittney Skye, American actress
• November 6 - Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
• November 6 - Dusan Kecman, Serbian basketball player
• November 10 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
• November 10 - Nina Mercedez, American pornographic actress
• November 13 - Chanel Cole, New Zealand-born singer
• November 13 - Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
• November 14 - Obie Trice, African-American rapper
• November 15 - Sean Murray, American actor
• November 16 - Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
• November 17 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
• November 18 - Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league player
• 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 27 - Mika Tan, Asian-American adult film actress
• November 28 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player
• December 3 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper
• December 3 - Troy Evans, American football player
• December 6 - Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
• December 7 - Dominic Howard , English drummer
• December 7 - Fernando Vargas, American boxer
• December 7 - Luke Donald, English golfer
• December 8 - Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union player
• December 8 - Ryan Newman, American race car driver
• December 10 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
• December 11 - Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player
• December 12 - Dahm triplets, American models
• December 12 - Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
• December 13 - Ahmed al-Nami, Saudi Arabian hijacker
• December 14 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
• December 14 - Jamie Peacock, English rugby league player
• December 16 - Kevin Gillespie, American comic book artist
• December 16 - Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player
• December 20 - Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer
• December 23 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
• December 25 - Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
• December 27 - Jacqueline Pillon, Canadian actress
• December 27 - Sam Talbot, American chef
• December 29 - Laveranues Coles, American football player
• December 29 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
• December 30 - Laila Ali, African-American boxer
• December 30 - Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer
• December 30 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
• December 30 - Sasa Ilic, Serbian football player
• December 31 - Donald Trump, Jr., Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization

Unknown

• Daniel Svensson, Swedish Drummer
• Yaakov Shwekey, Jewish Singer

Deaths

January–March

• January 2 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
• January 3 - Carroll Quigley, American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations (b. 1910)
• 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 18 - Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslavian Prime Minister (b. 1917)
• January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1895)
• January 21 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
• January 23 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
• January 29 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
• January 29 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (Chico and the Man) (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 19 - Anthony Crosland, British author and politician (b. 1918)
• February 27 - Allison Hayes, American actress (b. 1930)
• February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, African-American actor (The Jack Benny Show) (b. 1905)
• March 4 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
• March 5 - Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver (b. 1949)
• March 10 - E. Power Biggs, British-born American organist (b. 1906)
• 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 (b. 1923)
• March 29 - Charles Nicoletti, American gangster (b. 1916)
• March 30 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)

April–June

• April 12 - Philip K. Wrigley, American chewing gum manufacturer and Major League Baseball executive (b. 1894)
• April 17 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913)
• April 20 - Sepp Herberger, German soccer coach (b. 1897)
• April 21 - Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
• May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• May 5 - Sam Lanin, American 1920s bandleader (b. 1891)
• May 9 - James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
• May 10 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
• June 2 - Stephen Boyd, American film actor (Fantastic Voyage) (b. 1931)
• June 3 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• June 16 - Wernher von Braun, German-born American 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 (Lolita) (b. 1899)
• July 9 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (b. 1885)
• July 13 - Carl Gustav von Rosen, Swedish pilot (b. 1909)
• July 15 - Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (b. 1892)
• 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 14 - Alexander Luria, Soviet neuropsychologist (b. 1902)
• August 16 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
• August 19 - Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• August 31 - Rick Vallin, Russian-American actor (b. 1919)
• September 1 - Ethel Waters, African-American singer (b. 1896)
• September 4 - E.F. Schumacher, British economist (b. 1911)
• September 6 - John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885)
• September 8 - Zero Mostel, American film and stage actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) (b. 1915)
• 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 8 - Joe Greenstein, Polish-born American strongman (b. 1893)
• October 8 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, & lyricist (b. 1902)
• October 10 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
• October 20 - Three members of the American southern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd (killed in a plane crash):
• October 20 - Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
• October 20 - Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
• October 20 - 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, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• November 11 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born singer and actress (b. 1903)
• November 11 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (b. 1950)
• November 14 - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian leader of the Hare Krishna movement
• November 14 - Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (b. 1897)
• November 15 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (b. 1898)
• November 25 - Tommy Prince, Canadian war hero (b. 1915)
• December 5 - Roland Kirk, American jazz musician (b. 1936)
• December 13 - Sir Charles Petrie, British historian (b. 1895)
• December 15 - Wilfred Kitching, 7th (British) General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
• December 19 - Jacques Tourneur, French director (b. 1904)
• December 24 - Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (b. 1917)
• December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, English-born comedian (b. 1889)

Ship events

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

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

See also

• 1977 in United States history.

Notes and References

1. "TCP/IP", LivingInternet, 2008, webpage: LivingI-tcpip.