* 1977 – Gabriela Cano, Mexican actress

* 1977 – Ville Nieminen, Finnish hockey player

* 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player

* 1977 – Teddy Sears, American actor

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer

* 1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

* 1977 – Jason Price, Welsh footballer

* 1977 – Glenn Rogers, Scottish cricketer

* 1977 – Jordana Spiro, American actor

* 1977 – Jeannie Haddaway, American politician

* 1977 – Pell James, American actress

* 1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer

* 1977 – Jennifer Lyons, American actress

* 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer

* 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer

* 1977 – Csaba Csordás, Hungarian footballer

* 1977 – Jason Frasor, American baseball player

* 1977 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player

* 1977 – Adewale Ogunleye, American football player

* 1977 – Mikaël Silvestre, French footballer

* 1977 – Ime Udoka, Nigerian-American basketball player

* 1977 – Members of the British National Front ( NF ) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

According to Fitzgerald ( 1977 ) " Reinforcements arrived, and within fifteen minutes these ' vicious brutes ', who for some two hours had terrorized well-armed prison staff, and effectively controlled the prison, had surrendered and been locked up again ".

Rumours circulated that Villeneuve was one of several drivers in whom the Italian team was interested, and in August 1977 he flew to Italy to meet Ferrari, who was immediately reminded of the pre-war European champion Tazio Nuvolari: " When they presented me with this ' piccolo canadese ', this minuscule bundle of nerves, I immediately recognised in him the physique of Nuvolari and said to myself, let's give him a try.

', Tam Dalyell, Jonathan Cape, London, 1977

* Simon, pseudonymic writer of the 1977 ' Simon Necronomicon ', or the ' real Necronomicon '

In 2012 it was sold by the local Chapman family ( who ran it since 1977 ) to ' HF Holidays ', a national company.

* Dumville, David N., 1977 ' Sub-Roman Britain: history and legend ', History 62, pp. 173 – 192.

* Dumville, David N., 1977 / 8 ' The Welsh Latin annals ', Studia Celtica 12 / 13, pp. 461 – 467 ( review of Hughes 1974 )

* Miller, Molly, 1977 / 8 ' Date-Guessing and Dyfed ', Studia Celtica 12 / 13, pp. 33 – 61.

In the early 1970s, the Toraja people of Sulawesi were the first to be identified under the umbrella of ' Hinduism ', followed by the Karo Batak of Sumatra in 1977 and the Ngaju Dayak of Kalimantan in 1980.

The band began performing gigs in 1977 / 78 with a line-up of Steve Lake ( Vocals / Bass ), Steve Burch ( Guitar ) and Jimmy Lacey ( Drums ), adding Nick Godwin ( guitar ) at their second gig-adopting the name ' Zounds ', chosen from a dictionary by Burch.

The section from Plymouth to Exeter is called the ' Devon Expressway ', it forms the southern border of Dartmoor National Park, and serves as a southward extension of the M5 motorway opening in 1977.

The Wilko Johnson Band played at the ' Front Row Festival ', a three-week event at the Hope and Anchor, Islington in late November and early December 1977, featuring many early punk rock acts.

An oft quoted influential work of this era, Steven Ziplow's The Film Maker's Guide to Pornography ( 1977 ), states " There are those who believe that the come shot, or, as some refer to it, ' the money shot ', is the most important element in the movie and that everything else ( if necessary ) should be sacrificed at its expense.

The earliest known motion picture filmed at the cemetery was the 1977 Italian production ' La Ragazza dal pigiama giallo ', also known as ' The Pyjama Girl Case ', a murder story based on the true story of Linda Agostini, the Pyjama Girl.

Shepard recorded Sondheim's scores for Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along, the 1977 Broadway revival recording of The King and I, as well as the hits Ain't Misbehavin ', 42nd Street, and La Cage aux Folles.

The car would then be sold and reside in the Matsuda Collection before then being sold to the renowned collector of Stratos ', Christian Hrabalek, a car designer and the founder of Fenomenon Ltd, who has the largest Lancia Stratos Collection in the world, 11 unique Lancia Stratos cars, including the fluorescent red 1971 factory prototype and the 1977 Safari Rally car.

* 1977, ' The Brassey Nature Reserve-Descriptive Handbook ', Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation

* Our Lady of Darkness, a 1977 book, by Fritz Leiber, that contains a description of ' Megapolisomancy ', a fictional occult science.

* Rigold, S., ' The Principal series of English sceattas ', The British Numismatic Journal 47 ( 1977 ), 21 – 30

Sir Frederic Calland Williams CBE, FRS ( 26 June 1911 Stockport – 11 August 1977 Manchester ), known as ' Freddie Williams ', was an English engineer.

After living for some years in a small flat in London and being obliged, during the war, neither to travel nor to take part in the hostilities, on account of being classed as an ' alien ', he moved to the United States in 1955, where he became a lecturer ( and ultimately Emeritus Professor of Chinese ) at Columbia University from 1955 to 1977, with an interlude in 1958 and 1959 during which he was Emerson Fellow in Poetry at Harvard University.

Franz, who was known as the ' last of the great pros ', died in 1977, at the age of 54.