* 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.

* 1940 – Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded Red Army Faction ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

* 1943 – Andreas Baader, German terrorist, member of the Red Army Faction ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

The Red Army Faction existed from 1970 to 1998, committing numerous operations, especially in late 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as " German Autumn ".

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

* Red Symons – lead guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards ( 1973 – 1977, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994 )

Gudrun Ensslin (; 15 August 1940 – 18 October 1977 ) was a founder of the German militant group Red Army Faction ( Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang ).

Red Rum became, and remains, the only horse to have won the Grand National three times, in 1973, 1974, and 1977.

* Red Rum – 3 wins ( 1973, 1974, 1977, also second in 1975 and 1976 )

* Ginger McCain – 4 wins ( Red Rum ( 1973, 1974, 1977 ); Amberleigh House ( 2004 ))

* Noel Le Mare – 3 wins ( Red Rum ( 1973, 1974, 1977 ))

Many of the pilots that will join Rogue Squadron are initially members of Red Squadron, the X-Wing attack force that Luke Skywalker joins during the Battle of Yavin in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ).

Red Squadron, the forerunner of Rogue Squadron, is first featured in A New Hope ( 1977 ) during the attack on the first Death Star.

Its first mission, " Operation Feuerzauber " ( Operation Fire Magic ), immediately established the GSG 9's reputation as an elite unit, It was carried out in 1977 when Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Landshut, a Lufthansa plane on the way from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, demanding that imprisoned members of the German Red Army Faction terrorist group be freed in exchange for the passengers and crew who would be held as hostages.

* October 17 – 18, 1977: Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists demanding the release of Red Army Faction members.

* September 1977: The Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 472 over India and forced it to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

* The 2011 Bangladeshi film The Young Man Was, Part 1: United Red Army by visual artist Naeem Mohaiemen is about the 1977 hijacking of JAL 472 and the subsequent consequences inside Bangladesh.

* Angelus Village 1977, An Historical Update " Red Book "

* Stephen King makes frequent reference to " The Masque Of The Red Death " in his 1977 novel The Shining.

Andreas Bernd Baader ( 6 May 1943 – 18 October 1977 ) was one of the first leaders of the German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

He oversaw the Ethiopian Red Terror of 1977 – 1978, a campaign of repression against the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party and other anti-Derg factions.

Amnesty International estimates that a total of half a million people were killed during the Red Terror of 1977 and 1978 Human Rights Watch describes the Red Terror as " one of the most systematic uses of mass murder by a state ever witnessed in Africa.