* Wilhelm Biltz ( 1877 – 1943 ), German chemist and scientific editor

* 1877 – Gabriele Münter, German painter ( d. 1962 )

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

* 1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst ( d. 1925 )

* 1877 – Adolf Möller, German rower ( d. 1968 )

Micrometer measurements of the positions of stars in clusters were made as early as 1877 by the German astronomer E. Schönfeld and further pursued by the American astronomer E. E. Barnard prior to his death in 1923.

* 1877 – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer ( d. 1957 )

* May 7 – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer ( b. 1877 )

* August 5 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1877 )

** Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior ( b. 1877 )

* February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist and Minister of Finance ( b. 1877 )

* December 25 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst ( b. 1877 )

* Alfred Brunswig ( 1877 – 1929 ), a German philosopher

* Hermann Grassmann ( 1809 – 1877 ), German linguist and mathematician

August Wilhelm Zumpt ( December 4, 1815 – April 22, 1877 ) was a German classical scholar, known chiefly in connection with Latin epigraphy.

Cullman County was established by German American immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1877.

* Julius Curtius ( 1877 – 1948 ), German politician

Hermann Günther Grassmann (; April 15, 1809 – September 26, 1877 ) was a German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now also admired as a mathematician.

Following a dispute over the proposed relocation of nearby Liebenthal, Volga German settlers founded Schoenchen in April 1877.

It was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches ( Grand Ducal ) Theater ( now the Staatskapelle Weimar ) on 2 December 1877 in a German translation.

The libretto was duly translated into German for the production and the opera's first performance was given on 2 December 1877 at the Grossherzogliches Theatre ( Grand Ducal Theater ).

After graduation in 1874, he went on a training cruise to Europe and South America aboard Imperial German Navy vessels from 1877 – 78, and as junior officer acquired much sea experience.

* Emil Abderhalden ( 1877 – 1950 ), Swiss biochemist and physiologist

* 1945 – 1946: Stefan Tytus Dąbrowski ( 1877 – 1947 ), doctor and physiologist

Emil Abderhalden ( March 9, 1877 – August 5, 1950 ) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist.

Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann ( 1 July 1801 – 21 April 1877 ) was a German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher.

Another hang-glider had been constructed by Wilhelm Kress as early as 1877 near Vienna.

As of 1911, the best texts of the Sentences were those of Eduard Wölfflin ( 1869 ), A. Spengel ( 1874 ), and Wilhelm Meyer ( 1880 ), with complete critical apparatus and index verborum ; editions with notes by O. Friedrich ( 1880 ), R. A. H. Bickford-Smith ( 1895 ), with full bibliography ; see also W. Meyer, Die Sammlungen der Spruchverse des Publilius Syrus ( 1877 ), an important work.

* November 1-Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, novelist, dramatist and travel writer ( died 1877 )

* Carl Wilhelm Heine ( 1838 – 1877 ), surgeon

One of the sons he had with his wife Henriette Ludovike Camerer ( 1807 – 1884, married in 1831 ) was Carl Wilhelm Heine ( 1838 – 1877 ), one of the most famous European surgeons of the 19th Century.

In 1877 he married Adelheid of Naples, the daughter of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild with whom he had three children: James Armand Edmond, Maurice Edmond Karl and Miriam Caroline Alexandrine.

Individual contributions have been made by epigraphers such as Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ); August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1815 – 1877 ); Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ); Emil Hübner ( 1834 – 1901 ); Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ); Louis Robert ( 1904 – 1985 ).

Klinkerfues also had an abiding interest in meteorology, developing a hygrometer, patented in 1877, that was later manufactured in Göttingen by Wilhelm Lambrecht.

Wilhelm Filchner ( September 13, 1877 – May 7, 1957 ) was a German explorer.

* FRICK, Wilhelm ( 1877 – 1946 ) Nazi Interior Minister.

The construction of the new harbor was started in 1877 by Governor General Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge ( 1875-1881 ).

* Hermann Wilhelm Berning ( 1877 – 1955 ), Bishop of Osnabrück

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel ( 12 September 1877 – 4 October 1954 ) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.

Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr ( September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877 ) was a German-Brunswick army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer, and author, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War.

* Wilhelm Frick ( 1877 – 1946 ), German Nazi politician

* Wilhelm Schulz ( 1805 – 1877 ), also known as Guillermo Schulz, German-Spanish mine engineer and geologist

Freiherr Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler ( 25 December 1811 – 13 July 1877 ) was a German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz.

Irvin Key " Kaiser " Wilhelm from Wooster, Ohio ( January 26, 1877 – May 22, 1936 ) was a pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball.