* 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.

* 1977 – Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

* 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.

British author Alan D. Millington revived the Chinese classical game of the 1920s with his book The Complete Book of Mah-jongg ( 1977 ).

* 1977 – Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer

* 1977 – Li Tie, Chinese footballer

* 1977 – Wu Jiaduo, Chinese table tennis player

In 1977 The Economist reported that ethnic Fijians were a minority of 255, 000, in a total population of 600, 000 of which fully half were of Indian descent, with the remainder Chinese, European and of mixed ancestry.

Asahara graduated in 1977 and turned to the study of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, which are traditional careers for the blind in Japan, and married in 1978.

** Chen Chien-Chou 陳建洲 / 陈建洲 ( Blackie 黑人 ) ( 1977 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Kian Zhiu ), Compere ; Former national basketball player, Chinese Taipei national basketball team

* Overseas Chinese Daily News The Best Newcomer Award 1977

* Li Xiannian ( 1909 – 1992 ), Politburo Standing Committee member 1977 – 1987, President of the PRC 1983 – 1988, then Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference chairman

Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, by 1977 Marceline Jones admitted to the New York Times that, as early as age 18 when he watched his then idol Mao Zedong overthrow the Chinese government, Jim Jones realized that the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to mobilize people through religion.

* Tor sinensis, Wu, 1977, Chinese mahseer

* ( 1972 ) Chinese Gastronomy, Pyramid Publications ; 1977 reprint: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ( introduction by Dr. Lin Yutang )

After thwarting the 1976 coup d ’ état by the radical Gang of Four, who argued for ideologic purity at the expense of internal development, the Chinese Communist Party politically rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping, and appointed him head of the internal modernization programs in 1977.

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ( CASS ; ), established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the People's Republic of China for study in the fields of philosophy and social sciences, as well as a national center for comprehensive studies.

In addition, Child of the Owl won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1977 and The Rainbow People, Yep ’ s collection of short stories based on Chinese folktales and legends, received the same award in 1989.

He is most notable for his service as Republican United States Senator from 1959 to 1977, and for being the first Asian American and Chinese American to be elected as such.

* Gong Zhichao ( born 1977 ), Chinese badminton player

Eng Hian (; born May 17, 1977 ) is a Chinese Indonesian male badminton player.

In 1977, he managed to persuade the king to pardon a 14-year old Chinese boy sentenced to death for possession of a firearm under the Internal Security Act, apparently by suggesting that to let the boy hang would be " politically explosive.

In January 1977 Armacost was selected as a member of the National Security Council to handle East Asian and Chinese affairs under the Carter administration until July 1978, when he was replaced by Nicholas Platt.

* Pete's Dragon ( 1977 – 1996, replaced Chinese Dragon )

The Chinese New Years Treasure Hunt was created by Gary Warne in 1977 and continues ( albeit in a different form ) to this day.