* 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.

* 1977 – Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1977 – Steve Francis, American basketball player

* 1977 – Steve Howey, American actor

The Western position became precarious and condemned after the Soweto uprising in 1976 and the killing of black South African rights activist Steve Biko in 1977.

* 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

Pitcher Steve Carlton leads the team in Cy Young Award wins with four ( 1972, 1977, 1980, and 1982 ), while John Denny ( 1983 ), Steve Bedrosian ( 1987 ), and Roy Halladay ( 2010 ) each have one.

* 1949 – Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.

After Steve Hackett left the group in 1977, they became a crossover, arena rock band.

Garth appeared on the band ’ s first Radio 1 Peel Session, in September 1977, but due to his alcoholism he was quickly replaced with Steve Garvey, joining Dirty Looks in New York.

In late 1977, Lora Logic was replaced on saxophone, first temporarily by Glyn John, and then permanently by Rudi Thompson ( also known as Steve Rudi ).

Z was originally proposed by Abrial in 1977 with the help of Steve Schuman and Bertrand Meyer.

* South African activist Steve Biko dies in 1977.

** Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist ( d. 1977 )

Australian new wave band Radio Birdman also quoted Stevens ' theme at length in the closing section of their 1977 single " Aloha, Steve & Danno ", a tongue-in-cheek punk ' tribute ' to the series.

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

* 1977 Steve Herb finds the upsilon resonance implying the existence of the beauty / bottom quark

In 1977, new umpires ( including Steve Palermo ) had to wear the inside chest protector, although those on staff wearing the outside protector could continue to do so.

On 22 December 1977, the band split up, Clarke, Griffiths and Wylie formed The Nova Mob ( along Julian Cope ), and Paul Rutherford formed The Opium Eaters, while Littler moved to London in January 1978, where joined The Photons, alongside Steve Strange ( later Visage ).

* Steve Biko ( 1946 – 1977 ), anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

* Company 6 & 7 ( other players on this re-issue originally recorded at the 1977 Company Week include Lol Coxhill, Han Bennink, Leo Smith, Tristan Honsinger, Steve Beresford, Anthony Braxton and others, Incus 1992 )

Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant was buried at Jacksonville Memorial Gardens ( adjacent to the Orange Park Mall ) in Orange Park in 1977, but his remains were relocated to an undisclosed location after vandals broke into his tomb and the tomb of bandmate Steve Gaines on June 29, 2000.