Famous Deaths for Year 1977

Months in Year 1977: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 267

Jan 2nd - Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
Jan 2nd - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
Jan 3rd - Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide
Jan 3rd - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75
Jan 5th - Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74
Jan 9th - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer, dies at 71
Jan 9th - Hal Sawyer, TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
Jan 12th - Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69
Jan 14th - Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
Jan 14th - Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60
Jan 14th - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
Jan 17th - Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
Jan 18th - Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80
Jan 18th - Paul Nordoff, US composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67
Jan 18th - Yvonne Printemps, actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
Jan 19th - Geraldine Brooks, actress (Faraday & Co, Dumplings), dies at 51
Jan 21st - John Vincent, composer, dies at 74
Jan 21st - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76
Jan 21st - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
Jan 23rd - Bernard "Toots" Shor, barkeeper, dies at 73
Jan 25th - Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85
Jan 26th - Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61
Jan 27th - Walter Baldwin, actor (Gay Amigo), dies at 88
Jan 28th - Burt Mustin, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show), dies at 92
Jan 29th - E P "Buster" Nupen, cricketer (50 wickets for S Af, lost eye), dies
Jan 29th - Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22
Feb 1st - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
Feb 3rd - Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76
Feb 4th - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
Feb 5th - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player, dies at 67
Feb 5th - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
Feb 7th - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
Feb 8th - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
Feb 9th - Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
Feb 9th - Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
Feb 9th - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
Feb 10th - Grace Mary Williams, composer, dies at 70
Feb 11th - Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
Feb 13th - Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77
Feb 17th - Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76
Feb 17th - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
Feb 18th - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71
Feb 18th - Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curacao), dies at 87
Feb 18th - Ralph Graves, actor (Extra Girl), dies at 77
Feb 19th - Mike González, Cuban baseball player (b. 1890)
Feb 19th - Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
Feb 22nd - Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
Feb 22nd - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30), dies
Feb 26th - Bukka White, rocker, dies at 43
Feb 26th - Maxime Jacob, composer, dies at 71
Feb 27th - Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47
Feb 27th - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
Feb 28th - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
Mar 3rd - Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93
Mar 4th - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
Mar 4th - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
Mar 4th - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
Mar 5th - Lockrem Johnson, composer, dies at 52
Mar 5th - Moses Pergament, composer, dies at 83
Mar 5th - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. 1949)
Mar 5th - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
Mar 8th - Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
Mar 10th - E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
Mar 10th - Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74
Mar 10th - Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
Mar 11th - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
Mar 11th - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
Mar 13th - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
Mar 13th - Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
Mar 14th - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
Mar 15th - Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
Mar 15th - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
Mar 15th - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
Mar 18th - Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
Mar 18th - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
Mar 22nd - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
Mar 24th - Saburo Moroi, composer, dies at 73
Mar 27th - Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
Mar 27th - Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
Mar 27th - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
Mar 27th - A. P. Hamann, American politician
Mar 30th - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88
Mar 30th - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
Apr 3rd - Jack Ryder, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 1394 runs), dies
Apr 4th - Jeno Zador, composer, dies at 82
Apr 5th - John Marriott, dies at 83
Apr 7th - Siegfried Buback, German FR procureur-genl, murdered attorney-general
Apr 8th - Frank Milan, actor (Witness), dies at 71
Apr 11th - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
Apr 12th - Philip K Wrigley, baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at 82
Apr 14th - Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44
Apr 17th - Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86
Apr 17th - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913)
Apr 20th - Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80
Apr 20th - Len Johnson, cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 & 3-8), dies
Apr 20th - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
Apr 21st - Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
Apr 22nd - Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
Apr 27th - Stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61
Apr 28th - Ricardo Cortez, actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87
Apr 30th - Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73
May 5th - Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
May 7th - Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73
May 9th - James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
May 9th - Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71
May 10th - Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69
May 22nd - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73
May 22nd - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer, dies at 80
May 25th - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
May 26th - Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63
May 26th - William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
May 28th - Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63
May 29th - Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66
May 29th - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
May 30th - Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
May 30th - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
May 31st - William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
Jun 2nd - Forrest Lewis, actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77
Jun 2nd - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91
Jun 2nd - Stephen Boyd, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur, Lisa), dies at 48
Jun 3rd - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
Jun 3rd - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
Jun 5th - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74
Jun 6th - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
Jun 9th - Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts), dies
Jun 9th - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], Dutch poet, dies at 51
Jun 13th - Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 77
Jun 13th - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
Jun 14th - Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69
Jun 14th - Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66
Jun 14th - Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
Rocket Scientist Werner von Braun (Jun 16th) Jun 16th - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
Jun 19th - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
Jun 19th - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
Jun 20th - Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
Jun 22nd - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (b. 1952)
Jun 24th - André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
Jun 25th - Endre Szervanszky, composer, dies at 65
Jun 25th - Petko Staynov, composer, dies at 80
Jun 26th - Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43
Jun 26th - Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75
Jun 29th - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70
Jun 29th - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
Jul 2nd - Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78
Jul 3rd - Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
Jul 3rd - Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
Jul 4th - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
Jul 6th - Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69
Jul 9th - Loren C Eiseley, US anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69
Jul 10th - Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41