Famous People Who Died in 1977

• Cain, James M.

  Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice

• Chaplin, Charlie

  "The Little Tramp" of silent films

• Crawford, Joan

  Star of Mildred Pierce and subject of the book Mommie Dearest

• Crosby, Bing

  The singer of "White Christmas"

• Cruse, Heloise Bowles

  The originator of the newspaper column 'Hints From Heloise'

• Garner, Erroll

  The guy who wrote the song "Misty"

• Hawks, Howard

  The versatile film director who did Bringing Up Baby

• Lowell, Robert

  The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies

• Marx, Groucho

  The mustachioed leader of the Marx Brothers

• Nabokov, Vladimir

  Author of the novel Lolita

• Nin, Anais

  Diarist and lover of Henry Miller

• Powers, Francis Gary

  The U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960

• Prabhupada, Srila

  Founder of the Hare Krishna movement

• Presley, Elvis

  "The King of Rock 'n Roll"

• Prinze, Freddie

  Comedian and star of TV's Chico and the Man

• Thompson, Jim

  The author of The Killer Inside Me

• Von Braun, Wernher

  Ex-Nazi rocket scientist and father of the U.S. space program

• Wakefield, Ruth

  The inventor of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie

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