1977 Deaths
- Cain, James M. (27 October)
- Chaplin, Charlie (25 December)
- Crawford, Joan (10 May)
- Crosby, Bing (14 October)
- Garner, Erroll (2 January)
- Hawks, Howard (26 December)
- Marx, Groucho (19 August)
- Nabokov, Vladimir (2 July)
- Nin, Anais
- Powers, Francis Gary (1 August)
- Prabhupada, Srila (14 November)
- Presley, Elvis (16 August)
- Prinze, Freddie (29 January)
- Von Braun, Wernher (16 June)