page_title: 1977
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1977 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Wim Schermerhorn. Minister-president van Nederland (1945-1946)
context_page_description: 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.
context_section_description: March 1 – Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity (b. 1925)
  March 2
  Eugénie Brazier, French chef considered the mother of modern French cooking (b. 1895)
  Paul Rohmer, Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics (b. 1876)
  March 3
  Brian Faulkner, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1921)
  Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor (b. 1883)
  March 4
  Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
  Ola Solberg, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (b. 1886)
  Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official (b. 1887)
  March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver (b. 1949)
  March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890)
  March 9 – Elmer Burnham, American football coach and athlete (b. 1894)
  March 10
  E. Power Biggs, English-American organist (b. 1906)
  Léonce-Henri Burel, French cinematographer (b. 1892)
  William G. James, Australian pianist and composer (b. 1892)
  Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1894)
  March 11 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
  March 14 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
  March 15
  Antonino Rocca, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1921)
  Black Mike Winage, Serbian-Canadian miner and pioneer (b. 1870)
  March 16 – Nina Demme, Russian polar explorer, biologist and ornithologist (b. 1902)
  March 17 – Claude Roger-Marx, French writer, and playwright (b. 1888)
  March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, 3rd President of Congo (assassinated) (b. 1938)
  March 19 – William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b. 1888)
  March 20 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
  March 28
  Andries Mac Leod, Belgian-born Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1891)
  Frithiof Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1894)
  Marion Clyde McCarroll, writer and journalist (b. 1891)
  March 29
  Charles Nicoletti, American gangster (b. 1916)
  Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist (b. 1898)
  March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
  March 31
  Makke Groen, Dutch speed skater (b. 1917)
  Yasuji Kamada, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
  Eric Grant Miles, served as an officer with the British Army (b. 1891)
  Jean Bachelet, French cinematographer (b. 1894)
caption: Willem Schermerhorn
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