1877

Events 

 Asaph Hall discovers the two moons of Mars.

 Births 
 October 29 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer
 November 9 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
 Khan Sahib Abdul Majid Khan Tarin, OBE, British Indian judge, legislator and philanthropist (d. 1939)
 November 24 – Alben W. Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)

 Deaths 
 October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan