* 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 Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

* 1977 – Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani convicted murderer

* 1977 – Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer, leader of the Lords of Chaos

** Gary Gilmore, American murderer ( d. 1977 )

In 1977, Berenger had a small but noticeable role as a murderer in Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

Ramil Sahib oglu Safarov (; born August 25, 1977 ) is a convicted murderer who, while participating in a NATO-sponsored course of studies in Budapest in 2004 as a lieutenant of the Azerbaijani army, killed a fellow attendee, Armenian army lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, with an axe.

* Maxine Ann Carr ( born 1977 ), English criminal, girlfriend of Ian Huntley ( the Soham murderer )

The law was invoked in New York 11 times between 1977 and 1990, including once against Mark David Chapman, murderer of musician John Lennon.

King Edwards School also employed Sneinton resident Arnold Booth, the infamous murderer who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1977 for the murder of Renee Howard, and rumoured to have murdered Lucy Tinslop, the victim of the infamous ' Birthday girl ' murder on the Bath Street rest garden, which took place in 1969.

* Died: Max Delbrück, 74, German biophysicist, 1969 Nobel Laureate ; and Steven Judy, 24, Indiana murderer, fourth person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977.

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.

Pente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones.

* 1977 — Gary Steigman, David Schramm, and James Gunn examine the relation between the primordial helium abundance and number of neutrinos and claim that at most five lepton families can exist.

* 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.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

* Gary Scott Thompson, television and film screen writer and producer, graduated from Ukiah High School in 1977.

With another name change in 1977, to primarily disassociate itself from the urban decay and crime of Gary, the city reverted to its more historical designation of Lake Station.

The execution of Gary Gilmore took place there on January 24, 1977.

They intended to present it to Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 1977, but changed their minds once at the Con, where they met Scott Bizar who wrote out a letter of intent.

He attended several workshops with Renato Geremia ( 1977 ), Gary Burton ( 1984 ) and Steve Lacy ( 1994 ).

In 1977, ACL producers made " London Homesick Blues ," written by Gary P. Nunn, the ACL theme song.

* The Lady Davina Lewis ( born 19 November 1977, married Gary Lewis )

In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale ( 1997, 1980, 1976 ), the Whitney Biennial ( 1995, 1977 ), and Documenta, Kassel, Germany ( 1972 ), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Women ’ s Caucus for Art of the College Art Association ( 2005 ); the Governor ’ s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1998 ); the National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1998 ); the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association ( 1998 ); the Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale ( 1997 ); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded by the Austrian government ( 1992 ); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany ( 1991 ); and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York ( 1989 ).

*" Gary Gilmore's Eyes " / " Bored Teenagers " ( 19 August 1977: Anchor Records ANC1043 ) UK No. 18

Fieger met the three other original members of The Knack in 1977 and 1978: Berton Averre ( lead guitar, backing vocals and keyboards ), Prescott Niles ( bass ), and Bruce Gary ( drums ).

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 ).

Gary Mark Gilmore ( December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977 ) was an American who gained international notoriety for demanding that his own death sentence be fulfilled following two murders he committed in Utah.

In 1977, The Adverts had a top 20 hit in the UK with the song " Gary Gilmore's Eyes ".

Also in 1977, New York City experimental punk band Chain Gang released the song " Gary Gilmore and the Island of Dr. Moreau " as the B-side to their single " Son of Sam " about a contemporary serial killer that was still at large.

When the 1977 season began, Montana was the third quarterback listed on the team's depth chart, behind Rusty Lisch and Gary Forystek.

* On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and Philip Whalen ( 1977 ) ( ISBN 0-912516-27-5 )

The gelatinous cube is an invention of Gary Gygax, and first appeared in the Monster Manual ( 1977 ), rather than being lifted from outside sources and adapted to a roleplaying setting, as were many mythological monsters like the minotaur and dryad.