* 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.

Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

* 1977 – Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:

Its first mission, " Operation Feuerzauber " ( Operation Fire Magic ), immediately established the GSG 9's reputation as an elite unit, It was carried out in 1977 when Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Landshut, a Lufthansa plane on the way from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, demanding that imprisoned members of the German Red Army Faction terrorist group be freed in exchange for the passengers and crew who would be held as hostages.

* Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

Dassault Systèmes was created in 1981 but really started in 1977 with 15 engineers of Avions Marcel Dassault who were in charge of helping the plane building process.

In 1977, the 2000 series of focal plane shutter equipped models was introduced.

Soon after the death of Tony Hulman in 1977, and the loss of several key USAC officials in a 1978 plane crash, several key team owners banded together and formed CART in late 1978 to sanction the sport of Indy car racing.

It was the deadliest plane crash of all time until the Tenerife disaster in 1977.

In 1977, she recorded I Remember Patsy, an album to friend and country pop singer, Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash in 1963.

This does not mean that the ' spiritual ' theory of race is acceptable, but it had at least the merit of not totally failing to see certain values, to refuse the German aberrations and the ones modeled after them and to try to keep racism on a plane of cultural problems worthy of the name " ( Storia degli Ebrei Italiani sotto il Fascismo, or The History of Italian Jews under Fascism 1977 ; 465 ).

The Portuguese journalist José Milhazes, who lives in Moscow since 1977 and currently works for the Portuguese newspaper Público and as a correspondent for the Portuguese television chain SIC, sustains that the plane crash had nothing to do with any attempt or any mechanical failure, but was due to several errors of the Russian crew ( including the pilot ), who, instead of diligently performing their duties, were busy with futile things, like sharing alcoholic and soft drinks unavailable in Mozambique that they had had the possibility to bring from Zambia.

On September 7, 1977, a private aircraft dropped altitude to in dense fog, struck the CKVR-TV tower, killing all five on the plane and destroying the tower and antenna.

The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix as well as the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed.

Country rock sees a decline after Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1977 plane crash.

In October 1977, first domestic wide-body plane, Ilyushin Il-86, was built.

In more recent years, the mountain claimed the lives of Frank Sinatra's mother ( January 16, 1977 ) and Dean Paul Martin ( March 21, 1987 ), son of Dean Martin, in unrelated plane crashes.

Plastic Bertrand ( born Roger Allen François Jouret, 24 February 1954, Brussels ) is a Belgian musician, songwriter, producer, editor and television presenter, best known for the 1977 international hit single " Ça plane pour moi ".

In 1977, Plastic Bertrand started his solo career as the credited artist of the international hit single Ça plane pour moi, though in fact the song had been sung and produced by its composer Lou Deprijck with the engineer Phil delire for RKM / Vogue at Studio Morgan in Brussels.

In 2010, an expert appointed by a court stated that the voice of Lou Deprijck, the composer / producer of " Ça plane pour moi ," on a record from 2006 is the same voice as on the original 1977 recording.

* 1977 " Ça plane pour moi / Pogo Pogo "

Harbi was killed in a plane crash two years later, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali who campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as Djibouti's first president post-independence ( 1977 – 1991 ).

Autódromo José Carlos Pace, also known by its former name Interlagos, is a motorsport circuit located in the city of São Paulo, renamed after Carlos Pace, a Brazilian Formula One driver who had died in a 1977 plane crash.

It was renamed in 1985 from " Autódromo de Interlagos " to its current name to honor the Brazilian Formula One driver José Carlos Pace, who died in a plane crash in 1977.

of September 1977, Brizola and his wife went to Buenos Aires-from whence they would take a plane to the USA, and at the time a very dangerous place for Latin American exiles-followed by American CIA agents, staying overnight in a CIA safe house at the Argentinian capital, from where they boarded a nonstop flight to New York on September 22.