* 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.

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

Similarly, President James Mancham's attendance of the 1977 CHOGM gave Prime Minister France-Albert René the opportunity to seize power in the Seychelles.

* Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

* 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

* 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

* 1977 – Rebecca St. James, Australian singer-songwriter, author and actress

* Broderick Crawford and James Wainwright in the Larry Cohen film The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover ( 1977 ).

* 1977 – James Posey, American basketball player

Later in the decade, Cotten was in several all-star disaster films, including Airport ' 77 ( 1977 ) with James Stewart and again with Olivia de Havilland, and the nuclear thriller Twilight's Last Gleaming ( 1977 ).

Tiptree / Sheldon was most notable for breaking down the barriers between writing perceived as inherently " male " or " female " — it was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman.

This was released in 1977 by the James Callaghan Labour government.

* 1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor

* 1921 – James Jones, American novelist ( d. 1977 )

The northern blot technique was developed in 1977 by James Alwine, David Kemp, and George Stark at Stanford University.

Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 ( shared with his ideological nemesis, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek ); Bertil Ohlin received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 ( shared with British economist James Meade ).

Less than one year after independence, on 5 June 1977, with James Mancham in London to attend the Commonwealth Conference, Rene's supporters staged a blood-less coup and installed Rene as President.

* 1977 – James McCartney, English singer-songwriter

It was first screened at the Old Compton Street cinema club in Soho, London in 1977, in an uncut form and without certification from BBFC secretary James Ferman ; the premises were raided by the Metropolitan Police after a few days.

As it is customarily stated in textbooks, taken alone, the so-called ' zeroth law of thermodynamics ' fails to deliver this information, but the statement of the zeroth law of thermodynamics by James Serrin in 1977, though rather mathematically abstract, is more informative for thermometry: " Zeroth Law-There exists a topological line which serves as a coordinate manifold of material behaviour.

* November 6 – James Jones, American writer ( died 1977 )