1977

1977 (MCMLXXVII) was .

Events 

 January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated
February 18 – 2000 AD, a British comic, is first published
 March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered
 April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic
 May 25 – George Lucas' Star Wars opens in movie theaters
June – Hot Press, an Irish music magazine debuts
June 16 - President of the Soviet Union Nikolai Podgorny resigns and former President Leonid Brezhnev becomes Head of State of USSR once again, becoming first Russian Head of State to serve in non-consecutive terms.
 June 27 – Djibouti receives its independence from France
July 13 – The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours
 August 7 – Mount Usu volcano in Japan erupts
 September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America
 October 18 – Reggie Jackson hits 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers
November – Blue Öyster Cult release their album Spectres
November 13 – Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry
 December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations

Births 

January 8 – Amber Benson, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
January 13 – Orlando Bloom, English actor (The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, Troy)
January 28 – Daunte Culpepper, NFL quarterback
February 2 – Shakira, Colombian musician
February 3 – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer
February 14 – Cadel Evans, first Australian Tour de France winner
March 2 – Chris Martin, English singer (Coldplay)
March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
April 9 – Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
April 14 – Sarah Michelle Gellar American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
April 23 – John Cena, American professional wrestler, hip hop musician and actor
May 8 – Bad News Brown, Canadian musician (d. 2011)
May 19 – Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer
May 22 – djBJoRN, Canadian/Swedish DJ and producer
June 10 – Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
July 1 – Naofumi Yamamoto,  Japanese professional wrestler
July 8 – Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
July 14 – Princess Victoria of Sweden, heiress apparent of Sweden
July 17 – M.I.A., English musician
August 3 – Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
August 4 – Yūko Kohara, Japanese manga artist
August 17 – William Gallas, French footballer
August 17 – Thierry Henry, French footballer
August 24 – Robert Enke, German footballer
August 31 – Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
September 15 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer
September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
September 26 – Hugo de Jonge, Dutch politician
November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress
November 16 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
December 1 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
December 3 – Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper
December 7 – Dominic Howard, English musician (Muse)

Deaths

January 

 January 14 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)

February 

 February 9 – Queen Alia, Queen of Jordan (b. 1948)
 February 11 – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 5th President of India (b. 1905)

March 

 March 4 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)

April 
 April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1903)

May 

 May 5 – Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
 May 10 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904)
 May 16 – Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)

June 

 June 3 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
 June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1912)

July 

 July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
 July 25 – David Toro, President of Bolivia (b. 1898)

August 

 August 16 – Elvis Presley, American singer (b. 1935)
 August 19 – Groucho Marx, American actor (b. 1890)

September 

 September 16 – Marc Bolan, British pop singer (b. 1947)
 September 16 – Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
 September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)

October 

 October 14 – Bing Crosby, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
 October 18 – Andreas Baader, German terrorist (b. 1943)

November 
 November 14 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)

December 

 December 5 – Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and children's book author (b. 1894)
 December 10 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
 December 25 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)

Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Ilya Prigogine, Belgian physical chemist
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, and Rosalyn Yalow for their work on neurohormones
 Nobel Prize in Literature won by Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
 Nobel Peace Prize won by Amnesty International, a group focused on human rights
 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Bertil Ohlin, a Swedish economist and politician, and James Meade, a British economist

Movies released 

Annie Hall, winner of 4 Academy Awards
Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, and Jodie Foster
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg
The Gauntlet
The Deep, directed by Peter Yates
The Goodbye Girl, winning Academy Award for Best Actor for Richard Dreyfuss
Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
Smokey and the Bandit
The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth James Bond movie
Star Wars

Hit songs 

"Alison" – Elvis Costello
"American Girl" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Amoureuse de la vie" – Dalida
"Angel In Your Arms" – Hot
"Another Star" – Stevie Wonder
"April Sun In Cuba" – Dragon
"As" – Stevie Wonder
"Baby What A Big Surprise" – Chicago
"Barracuda" – Heart
"Black Betty" – Ram Jam
"Blue Bayou" – Linda Ronstadt
"Boogie Nights" – Heatwave
"California" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft" – The Carpenters
"Captain Sky" – Dalida
"Carry On Wayward Son" – Kansas
"Cold As Ice" – Foreigner
"Come Sail Away" – Styx
"Complete Control" – The Clash
"Coyote" – Joni Mitchell
"Dancing In The Moonlight(It's Caught Me In The Spotlight)" – Thin Lizzy
"Dancing The Night Away" – The Motors
"Daytime Friends" – Kenny Rogers
"Disco Inferno" – The Trammps
"Do Anything You Wanna Do" – Eddie and the Hotrods
"Don't Believe A Word" – Thin Lizzy
"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" – Crystal Gayle
"Don't Stop" – Fleetwood Mac
"Down To Zero" – Joan Armatrading
"Dr Love" – Tina Charles
"Dreamboat Annie" – Heart
"Fanfare For The Common Man" – Emerson Lake and Palmer
"Father Christmas" – The Kinks
"Feels Like The First Time" – Foreigner
"Femme est la Nuit" – Dalida
"Fly Like An Eagle" – Steve Miller Band
"(Get A)Grip(On Yourself)" – The Stranglers
"Give A Little Bit" – Supertramp
"Go Your Own Way" – Fleetwood Mac
"God Save The Queen" – The Sex Pistols
"Heard It In A Love Song" – Marshall Tucker
"Heartsong" – Gordon Giltrap
"Hello Stranger" – Yvonne Elliman
"Help Is On It's Way" – Little River Band
"Here Come Those Tears Again" – Jackson Browne
"Heroes" – David Bowie
"Holidays In The Sun" – The Sex Pistols
"I Need A Man" – Grace Jones
"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" – Warren Zevon
"I'm In You" – Peter Frampton
"In The Flesh" – Blondie
"Jamming/Punky Reggae Party" – Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Jet Airliner" – Steve Miller Band
"Jungle Love" – Steve Miller Band
"Killing of Georgie, Pt. 1-2" – Rod Stewart
"Let There Be Rock" – AC/DC
"Lido Shuffle" – Boz Scaggs
"Life In The Fast Lane" – The Eagles
"Like A Huricane" – Neil Young
"Livin' Thing" – Electric Light Orchestra
"Living Next Door To Alice" – Smokie
"Lonely Boy" – Andrew Gold
"Love Is The Answer" – Utopia
"Ma Baker" – Boney M
"Magazine Madonna – Sherbet
"Mannequin" – Wire
"Margaritaville" – Jimmy Buffett
"Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) – Paul McCartney & Wings
"Memory Motel" – The Rolling Stones
"More Than A Feeling" – Boston
"Motorhead" – Motorhead
"No More Heroes" – The Stranglers
"Nobody Does It Better" – Carly Simon
"Peaches/Go Buddy Go" – The Stranglers
"Pearl's A Singer" – Elkie Brooks
"Portsmouth" – Mike Oldfield
"The Pretender" – Jackson Browne
"Pretty Vacant" – The Sex Pistols
"Really Free" – John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
"Remember... C'était loin" – Dalida & Richard Chanfray as St-Germain
"Rip To Her Shreds" – Blondie
"Rockaria" – Electric Light Orchestra
"Rockin' All Over The World" – Status Quo
"Rose Of Cimarron(EP)" – Poco
"Salma Ya Salama" – Dalida
"Save It For A Rainy Day" – Stephen Bishop
"Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll" – Ian Dury
"She's Not There" – Santana
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" – The Ramones
"Smoke On The Water" – Deep Purple
"Solsbury Hill" – Peter Gabriel
"Something Better Change/Straighten Out" – The Stranglers
"Sometimes When We Touch" - Dan Hill
"Sound And Vision" – David Bowie
"Things We Do For Love" – 10cc
"This Is Tomorrow" – Bryan Ferry
"Ti Amo (Je t'aime)" – Dalida
"Tie Your Mother Down" – Queen
"2-4-6-8 Motorway" – Tom Robinson Band
"Tumbling Dice" – Linda Ronstadt
"Walk This Way" – Aerosmith
"Watching The Detectives" – Elvis Costello
"We Are The Champions" – Queen
"We Will Rock You" – Queen
"We Just Disagree" – Dave Mason
"White Riot" – The Clash
"Whole Wide World" – Wreckless Eric
"Wild Side Of Life" – Status Quo
"Wonderous Stories" – Yes
"Year Of The Cat" – Al Stewart
"You And Me" – Alice Cooper
"You Yesyesyes" – The Residents
"You're In My Heart" – Rod Stewart
"You're Moving Out Today" – Carole Bayer Sager
"(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" – Rita Coolidge
"Your Song" – Billy Paul

New books 

The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
Beggarman, Thief – Irwin Shaw
Bloodline – Sidney Sheldon
A Bonus – Elizabeth Smart
The Chancellor Manuscript – Robert Ludlum
Child of the Morning – Pauline Gedge
The Complete Book of Running – Jim Fixx
Daniel Martin – John Fowles
Dreams Die First – Harold Robbins
The Honourable Schoolboy – John le Carré
How to Save Your Own Life – Erica Jong
Illusions – Richard Bach
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me – Christopher Wood
Oliver's Story – Erich Segal
The Plague Dogs – Richard Adams
Rage – Richard Bachman
Refiner's Fire – Mark Helprin
A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Shining – Stephen King
The Silmarillion – J. R. R. Tolkien
The Slave Girl – Buchi Emecheta
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
The True American, A Folk Fable – Melvin Van Peebles
The Wars – Timothy Findley
Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son – Everett M. Skehan