* 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 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.

* 1977 – Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1977 – 1989 Aston Martin V8 Vantage

* Sheridan, Martin, Comics and Their Creators ( 1942 ) R. T. Hale & Co, ( 1977 ) Hyperion Press

Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), Mean Streets ( 1973 ), and musical drama New York, New York ( 1977 ).

* 1977 – Kenyon Martin, American basketball player

* 1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

* 1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer

* 1977 – Chris Martin, English musician ( Coldplay )

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

* Martin A. Larson, The Story of Christian Origins ( 1977, 711 pp. ISBN 0-88331-090-2 ).

* 1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.

He took the helm of the sequels as well as Season of the Witch ( 1972 ), The Crazies ( 1973 ), Martin ( 1977 ), Creepshow ( 1982 ) and The Dark Half ( 1993 ).

* Together on Broadway: Mary Martin & Ethel Merman ( 1977 ) ( Broadway )

) His performance as psychiatrist Martin Dysart won him both a special Tony Award for his appearance, but he had to make Exorcist II: The Heretic – a film he hated – before Hollywood producers would allow him to repeat his role in the 1977 film version.

* Greene, David L .; Martin, Dick ( 1977 ).

The muon neutrino was discovered in 1962 by Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, and the tau discovered between 1974 and 1977 by Martin Lewis Perl and his colleagues from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Avildsen was the original director for both Serpico ( 1973 ) and Saturday Night Fever ( 1977 ), but was fired over disputes with producers Martin Bregman and Robert Stigwood, respectively.

One of Ulverston's lesser known sons is the late Bryan Martin, senior BBC Radio 4 Newsreader and Presenter of the 70s and 80s, whose dulcet tones on the " Today " programme announced to the country the death of Elvis Presley in 1977 and broke the news of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.

* George A. Romero's 1977 horror film Martin takes place in Braddock and was largely filmed there.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

* Kenyon Martin ( born 1977 ), professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets.

Guitarist Martin Rotsey joined in 1977 and Midnight Oil, with Morris, established their own record label Powderworks, which released their debut eponymous album in November 1978, and their first single " Run by Night " followed in December.

* Daniel Martin ( novel ), title character from the 1977 novel by John Fowles