* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter composer, and actor

* 1977 – Frederik Magle, Danish composer, organist and pianist

His seventh wife, Nina Bushkin, whom he married on May 30, 1977, was the director of development at Mannes College of Music and the daughter of composer and musician Joey Bushkin.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

The poet Nicholas Moore and the composer Timothy Moore were his sons, by Dorothy Moore, born 1892, died 1977.

* 1904 – Richard Addinsell, British composer ( Warsaw Concerto ) ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Richard Parry, Canadian musician and composer ( Arcade Fire )

* 1901 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer ( d. 1977 )

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

* 1902 – Giorgos Papasideris Greek singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1934 – Waldo de los Ríos, Argentinian composer, conductor, and arranger ( d. 1977 )

* October 1 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer ( d. 1977 )

* January 13 – Richard Addinsell, British composer ( d. 1977 )

* September 14 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer, composer, and lyricist ( d. 1977 )

* September 7 – Madeleine Dring, British composer and actress ( d. 1977 )

* Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( 1899 – 1977 ), Russian-American author, entomologist, and chess problem composer

* In 1977, the Italian singer and composer Roberto Vecchioni issued an LP titled Samarcanda.

Paralleling these developments, in 1977 / 78, Sting and Summers recorded and performed ( alongside other invited musicians ) with German experimental composer Eberhard Schoener ; Copeland also joined for a time.

Branca formed two bands in the late 1970s: Theoretical Girls in 1977 with composer / guitarist Jeffrey Lohn and photographer / musician Barbara Ess, and The Static.

* Frederik Magle, Danish composer ( born 1977 )

The same can be said of parts of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's Nocturne and Tarantella ( 1915 ) and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone ( 1977 – 78 ).

* Frederik Magle ( b. 1977 ), composer and organist

Charles Frank " Chuck " Mangione (; born November 29, 1940 ) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, " Feels So Good.

In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special.

When Hayek left Salzburg in 1977, he wrote, " I made a mistake in moving to Salzburg ".

In addition to his works directly addressing problem solving, Pólya wrote another short book called Mathematical Methods in Science, based on a 1963 work supported by the National Science Foundation, edited by Leon Bowden, and published by the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) in 1977.

Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT wrote a game called Zork in the summer of 1977 for the PDP-10 minicomputer which became quite popular on the ARPANET.

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, who met Hurt and played on the same bill as him at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977 entitled " Did You Hear John Hurt?

In 1977, Tony Hiss and Jeff Lewis wrote in The New York Times about the then 25-year-old publication's initial effect:

In 1975, Moody wrote the best-selling book Life After Life and in 1977 he wrote a second book, Reflections on Life After Life.

Nicks originally wrote " Secret Love " in 1976 and recorded a demo of it for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours.

Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977.

Between 1975 and 1977, he wrote the screenplay and lensed the film on various locations around Poland, as well as Crimea, the Caucasus Mountains and even the Gobi Desert.

In 1977, the famous Lebanese Rahbani brothers wrote the musical " Petra " as a response to the Lebanese Civil War .-

Moody wrote a second book, Reflections on Life After Life ( ISBN 0817714233 ), in 1977.

He played music producer Tony Lacey in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall, and wrote and starred in 1980's One Trick Pony as Jonah Levin, a journeyman rock and roller.

Glen A. Larson wrote an unproduced television pilot entitled " TS, I Love You: The Further Adventures of Tom Swift " in 1977, as well.

Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a postcard entitled Der Berggeist (), and on the paper cover in which he kept it, he wrote " the origin of Gandalf ".

In 1972, Derrida wrote " Signature Event Context ," an essay on J. L. Austin's speech act theory ; following a critique of this text by John Searle in his 1977 essay Reiterating the Differences, Derrida wrote the same year Limited Inc abc ..., a long defense of his earlier argument.

She eventually transitioned into writing children's books, most notably, Freaky Friday ( 1972 ), which was made into a feature film ( released 1977 ) for which Rodgers wrote the screenplay.

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

However, Dave Anderson of the New York Times subsequently wrote that he had drinks with Jackson in July 1977, and that Jackson told him, " I'm still the straw that stirs the drink.

During this time she wrote her first autobiography, This for Remembrance: the Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, written in collaboration with Raymond Strait and published by Playboy Press in 1977.

Chester Gould ( November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985 ) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

Suze Randall is married to writer Humphry Knipe, who helped write her biographical book Suze ( 1977 ), wrote and directed several of her films as Victor Nye, and still manages Suze Randall Productions websites.