* 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 – 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 )

* April 19 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater ( b. 1877 )

* 1901 Ulrich B. Phillips, ( 1877 – 1934 ) Georgia and State Rights

** Ulrich of Württemberg ( 1877 – 1944 )

Carl Ulrich Franz Mannich (* March 8, 1877 in Breslau, † March 5, 1947 in Karlsruhe ) was a German Chemist.

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

In Darwin's lifetime, Origin was published in Swedish in 1871, Danish in 1872, Polish in 1873, Hungarian in 1873 – 1874, Spanish in 1877 and Serbian in 1878.

Danielssen was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1877.

Richard Dybeck ( 1 September 1811 – 28 July 1877 ) was a Swedish jurist, antiquarian, and lyricist, and today is mainly remembered as the author of the lyrics to what is now the de facto Swedish national anthem, Du gamla, Du fria.

For his lifetime of literary achievement, Rydberg received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 1877 and was elected a member of the Swedish Academy the same year.

Predictably, this book attracted the ire of the orthodox religious establishment and is generally credited for Rydberg's exclusion from the Swedish Academy until as late as 1877.

After a long journey in Italy in 1874, Rydberg published Romerska sägner om apostlarna Petrus och Paulus ( Roman Legends concerning the Apostles Peter and Paul 1874 ) and Romerska Dagar ( Roman Days 1877 ), a series of essays on Italian culture, history and archaeology ; The journey is said to have strengthened Rydberg's creative power, as he now produced some of " the finest philosophical lyrics in Swedish literature ".

The radical reforms in Swedish spelling proposed there sparked opposition from the Swedish Academy and gave Johan Erik Rydqvist ( 1800 – 1877 ) the energy to publish the very conservative 1st edition of the Academy's one volume spelling dictionary in 1874 ( Svenska Akademiens Ordlista ).

* John Lind ( female impersonator ) ( 1877 – 1940 ), Swedish female impersonator, singer and dancer

* Valfrid Palmgren ( 1877 – 1967 ), Swedish politician ; one of the first female members of the Stockholm City Council and a reformer of the public libraries.

" Andersson ( 11 January 1877 – 28 November 1906 ) was a Swedish cartoonist and one of Sweden's first true comic creators.

Sundberg was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1874 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1877.

Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigō Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Japan in 1877 at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion.

Charles " Buddy " Bolden ( September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931 ) was an African-American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.

During 1877 the price of British-grown corn averaged 56 shillings, 9 pence a quarter and for the rest of the nineteenth century it never reached within 10 shillings of that figure.

The crucial figure for milk traffic rose from 40, 000 gallons carried in 1875 to 58, 000 gallons ( 260, 000 l ; 70, 000 US gal ) in 1879, and in 1877 the Tramway carried a total of 20, 994 tons ( 21, 331 t ) of goods.

General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo ( November 3, 1877 – April 28, 1960 ) was a Chilean Army officer and political figure.

* William Henry Draper ( 1801 – 1877 ), lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada and Canada West

Federico Marcos del Rosario Errázuriz Zañartu ( April 25, 1825 – July 20, 1877 ) was a Chilean political figure.

Charles Clark ( May 24, 1811December 18, 1877 ) was a Mississippi Democratic political figure, as well as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

William Collins fountain in Glasgow GreenIn 1881 a fountain was erected in the park to commemorate Sir William Collins, a figure in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880.

Sir William Collins ( 1817 – 1895 ) was a famous figure in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880.

A running archaic Nike figure that was found at Delos in 1877 ( Tarbell ), was at first too hopefully connected with a separate base found nearby, which recorded the execution of a statue by Archermus and Micciades ; at first it was dubbed the " Nike of Archermus " ( Athens NM 21 ).

In March 1877 he married secondly noted author and society figure Caroline Norton, a granddaughter of the famous Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The outstanding catcher of the 1870s during baseball's barehanded period, he caught more games than any other player during the decade, and was a major figure on five consecutive championship teams from 1873 to 1877 – three in the National Association ( NA ), in which he played throughout its five-year existence from 1871 to 1875, and two in the National League ( NL ), which was formed as the first recognized major league in, partially as a result of White and three other stars moving from the powerhouse Boston Red Stockings to the Chicago White Stockings.

The community was founded in 1877 and is named for the Biblical figure, Nicodemus.

* Robert Emmett Finn ( 1877 – 1951 ), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

Frederick William Mansfield ( March 26, 1877 – November 6, 1958 ) was a U. S. political figure.

Emory Washburn ( February 14, 1800 – March 18, 1877 ) was a United States political figure.