* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

* 1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American businesswoman ( d. 1967 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician ( d. 1952 )

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater ( d. 1949 )

* 1877 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna ( d. 1941 )

* 1877 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish engineer ( d. 1935 )

* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.

* 1877 – Albert Bartha, Hungarian military officer and politician ( d. 1960 )

* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

1865 – 1877.

* 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop ( d. 1877 )

* 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer ( d. 1959 )

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

* 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman ( d. 1877 )

* 1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author ( d. 1950 )

* 1877 – Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat ( d. 1949 )

Wine merchant Friedrich Karl Christian Huth, whose great-grandfather had been kellermeister ( cellar-master ) to King Friedrich II back in 1769, had founded the firm in 1871 and taken over the former building in Potsdamer Straße on 23 March 1877.

* December 25 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst ( b. 1877 )

Hölder first studied at the Polytechnikum ( which today is the University of Stuttgart ) and then in 1877 went to Berlin where he was a student of Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstraß, and Ernst Kummer.

A biocoenosis ( biocoenose, biocenose, biotic community, biological community, ecological community ), coined by Karl Möbius in 1877, describes the interacting organisms living together in a habitat ( biotope ).

Heinrich Julius Holtzmann ( May 7, 1832 – August 4, 1910 ), German Protestant theologian, son of Karl Julius Holtzmann ( 1804 – 1877 ), was born at Karlsruhe, where his father ultimately became prelate and counsellor to the supreme consistory.

Numerous other editions appeared from the 16th to the 18th century, all of which are now superseded by the excellent ones of Karl Felix Halm ( Berlin, 1877 ) and F. Pauly ( Vienna, 1883 ).

* Karl Hans Strobl ( b. * 1877 ) – Austrian writer

** N. Hocker, Karl Simrock, sein Leben und seine Werke ( 1877 )

** H. Düntzer, " Erinnerungen an Karl Simrock ," in Monatsschrift für Westdeutschland ( 1877 )

In 1877 he married Adelheid of Naples, the daughter of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild with whom he had three children: James Armand Edmond, Maurice Edmond Karl and Miriam Caroline Alexandrine.

* 1875 – 1877: Karl Schenk

Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow ( July 18, 1811 – November 16, 1877 ) was an Austrian astronomer.

Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz ( 27 December 1796-2 August 1877 ) was a German Generalfeldmarschall, born at Eisenach.

* Karl Bopp ( 1877 – 1934 ), German historian of mathematics

He also found time for a while to edit the new edition of Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon ( 1877 ), to superintend the publication of part of the Regesta of Pope Leo X ( Freiburg i. B., 1884-1885 ), and to add two volumes to Karl Josef von Hefele's Conciliengeschichte ( ib., 1887 and 1890 ).

* Karl August Reinhold Wunderlich ( 1815 – 1877 ), German physician, pioneer psychiatrist, medical professor

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel ( 12 September 1877 – 4 October 1954 ) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.

The inflectional type is usually accepted to reach back into Proto-Indo-European times, with an exact correspondence of Sanskrit and Old Norse ylgr, both meaning " she-wolf ", first described by Karl Verner in 1877 ( see Verner's law ).

The first use of this term is usually attributed to Karl Möbius in 1877, but already in 1825, the French naturalist Adolphe Dureau de la Malle used the term societé about an assemblage of plant individuals of different species.

* Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer ( 1805 – 1877 ), also known as Louis Pfeiffer, German physician, botanist and conchologist

Karl Abraham ( 3 May 1877 – 25 December 1925 ) was an early important and influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his ' best pupil '.