* 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 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D. C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.

On March 9, 1977, when, in what was at the time one of the worst terror attacks in America, seven members of the Hanafi Muslim sect took over the B ' nai B ' rith headquarters, the Islamic Center and Washington, D. C .' s city hall.

While serving on the D. C. city council, Barry was shot on March 9, 1977, by radical Hanafi Muslims ( from a breakaway sect of the Nation of Islam ) when they overran the District Building.

Barry was shot near his heart during the two-day 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege in which hostages were held by the terrorists and which was finally defused by the FBI and Muslim ambassadors.

The 1977 Constitution, declared Islam the religion of Afghanistan, but made no mention that the state ritual should be Hanafi.

The mosque was one of three buildings taken over in the 1977 Hanafi Siege.

* Maurice Williams ( reporter ), reporter for WHUR-FM who was killed in the 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege

During the 1977 Hanafi Siege of a federal building in Washington, Zahedi and two other ambassadors from Muslim nations were able to talk the hostage takers into surrendering and releasing 149 hostages.

In 1977, President Humayun Kabir amended the Constitution of Bangladesh, including a clause stating that " the state shall endeavour to consolidate, preserve and strengthen fraternal relations among Muslim countries based on Islamic solidarity ".

In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa.

Begum Khaleda Zia ()( born August 15, 1945 ) is the former First Lady of Bangladesh ( 1977 – 1981 ), and then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, having served from 1991 to 1996, becoming the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world ( only after Ms Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1988 – 1990 ) to head a democratic government as prime minister.

* Abdul Majid Daryabadi ( 1892 – 1977 ), Indian Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur ' an

A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai ' i was born in Kadhimiya in 1947 to a Shia father and a Sunni mother, Al Rubaie graduated top of his class at the Baghdad School of Medicine in 1977 and gained his MRCP ( Membership of the Royal College of Physicians ) whilst at King's College Medical School in London in 1979.

In 1977 W. Deen Mohammed led 300 Muslim Americans, then the largest delegation, mostly former members of the Nation of Islam, on the Hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

In 1977 he left Syria, where he was wanted for being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and moved to Beirut, Lebanon where he began his studies in Shari ' ah.

His response was to kidnapp a former Egyptian government minister and mainstream Muslim cleric, Muhammad al-Dhahabi, on July 3, 1977.

In deference to their increasing influence, the Ministry of Justice in 1977 published a draft law making apostasy by a Muslim a capital offense and proposing traditional Islamic punishments for crimes, such as stoning for adultery and amputation of a hand for theft.

During this period he travelled throughout the Islamic world researching his first book, Science, Technology and Development in the Muslim World ( Croom Helm, 1977 ).

* Science, Technology and Development in the Muslim World, Croom Helm, London ; Humanities Press, New Jersey ; 1977

In 1977 two Muslim Majlis MPs were elected on the Janata Party symbol.

* Yusuf Islam ( born Steven Demetre Georgiou ; 21 July 1948, aka Cat Stevens ) the famous singer of Cypriot Greek origin, converted to Islam at the height of his fame in December, 1977 and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year.

His response was to kidnapp a former Egyptian government minister on and mainstream Muslim cleric, Muhammad al-Dhahabi, on July 3, 1977.