page_title: 1977
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1977 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Ethel Waters.
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: September 1 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
  September 2 – Stephen Dunne, American actor (b. 1911)
  September 3 – Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (b. 1885)
  September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German statistician and economist (b. 1885)
  September 6 – John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885)
  September 8 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
  September 12
  Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
  Isidore Godfrey, British conductor (b. 1900)
  September 13 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
  September 16
  Marc Bolan, British singer and guitarist (b. 1947)
  Maria Callas, Greek soprano  (b. 1923)
  Alexandre Constantinovich Chnéour, Russian entomologist and herpetologist (b. 1884)
  Francis Shurrock, notable New Zealand sculptor and art teacher (b. 1887)
  September 18
  Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
  Sudhi Ranjan Das, 5th Chief Justice of India (b. 1894)
  September 23 – John Nash, British artist and painter (b. 1893)
  September 24
  Sherm Lollar, American baseball player and coach (b. 1924)
  Frederick Merk, American historian (b. 1887)
  Piet Zwart, Dutch photographer, typographer and industrial designer (b. 1885)
  September 26 – Ernie Lombardi American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1908)
  September 27
  George Merritt, English actor (b. 1890)
  Czesław Wycech, Polish activist, politician and historian (b. 1899)
  September 29
  Robert McKimson, American animator and director (b. 1910)
  Zacharias Mar Athanasios, Indian Syro-Malankara Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1909)
caption: Ethel Waters
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