* 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.

Other guests included Betty White, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond, Tim Conway and Roz Kelly as Happy Days ' Pinkie Tuscadero ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( April 23, 1977 ) with Cloris Leachman and Tony Randall ; T ' was the Night Before Christmas with Alice Ghostley, Martha Raye, George Gobel and Foster Brooks ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( May 20, 1978 ) with Juliet Prowse, Brenda Vaccaro and Harry Morgan of MASH.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( also known simply by the name of the show's star, Mary Tyler Moore ) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.

On 1 November, 1960, she married director Richard Brooks ; they divorced in 1977.

He has also performed with Roy Brooks, Buddy Rich, George Benson, Rabih Abou Khalil, Roy Ayers, Oliver Nelson, Gary Bartz, Rashied Ali and Pharoah Sanders, as well as appearing on the live album The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux ( 1977 ).

The aeromedical library at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas had been named after Hubertus Strughold in 1977.

After some success as a screenwriter — notably the Mel Brooks comedies Silent Movie ( 1976 ) and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) ( in which he played a bellboy ) and the Oscar-nominated script ( co-written by then-wife Valerie Curtin ) … And Justice for All ( 1979 ) — Levinson began his career as a director with Diner ( 1982 ), for which he had also written the script and which earned him a Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

* High Anxiety ( with Mel Brooks, Ron Clark and Rudy De Luca ) ( 1977 )

From 1945 to 1977, Arlington Hall served as the headquarters of the United States Army Security Agency and, for a brief period in late 1948, the newly formed United States Air Force Security Service ( USAFSS ) until they relocated to Brooks AFB in San Antonio, Texas.

The property has been used several times as a filming location, featured most prominently in producer Irwin Allen's 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, Don Siegel's spy thriller Telefon of the same year, and the 1979 sci-fi thriller Time After Time.

High Anxiety is a 1977 comedy film produced and directed by Mel Brooks, who also plays the lead.

In the comedy film High Anxiety ( 1977 ), directed by Mel Brooks, a minor plot line involves a bumbling chauffeur who takes a picture showing the evil assassin ( wearing a latex mask of Brooks ' character's face ) firing a gun at point-blank range at someone ; he makes blow-ups until he can see the real Brooks ' character, standing in the elevator in the background.

* In the 1977 film High Anxiety, Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke ( Mel Brooks ) is an institute manager who suffers from Acrophobia.

A close succession of Kahn comedies — Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ), and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) — were all directed by Mel Brooks, who many Hollywood observers claimed was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents.

Brooks played varsity baseball at Arizona State University — winning an NCAA championship there in 1977 while playing shortstop, with Bob Horner at third — and was the third player chosen by the Mets in the June 1978 amateur draft.

It took place on April 16 – 17, 1977, in San Francisco Civic Auditorium & Brooks Hall, and saw the debut of the Commodore PET, presented by Chuck Peddle, and the Apple II, presented by then-21-year-old Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

In 1961, he appeared with Geraldine Brooks ( 1925 – 1977 ) in an episode of ABC's Bus Stop with Marilyn Maxwell, for which Brooks was nominated for an Emmy Award.

The song also earned Joe Brooks the 1977 " Song of the Year " Grammy ( tied with " Love Theme from " A Star Is Born " ( Evergreen )") as well as " Best Original Song " at both the 1977 Golden Globe and Academy Awards.

Brooks Wackerman ( born February 15, 1977 ) is the drummer for the American punk band Bad Religion and the younger brother of John Wackerman and Chad Wackerman ( formerly a member of Frank Zappa's band ).

* The Sword of Shannara, a 1977 novel in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks

Still based in the UK, The Meteors returned to Australia for successful tours in May – June 1976 and February 1977, the latter producing the album Back Home Live, recorded at Melbourne's Dallas Brooks Hall.