1977

calendar year

1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1940s  1950s  1960s  – 1970s –  1980s  1990s  2000s
Years: 1974 1975 197619771978 1979 1980

Events Edit

 
The Atari video game system

Births Edit

 
Adam Małysz at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Deaths Edit

January Edit

 
Anthony Eden

February Edit

 
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

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Ludwig Erhard
 
Joan Crawford
 
Modibo Keïta

June Edit

 
Roberto Rossellini

July Edit

 
Vladimir Nabokov

August Edit

 
Elvis Presley
 
Groucho Marx

September Edit

 
Maria Callas

October Edit

 
Bing Crosby

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December Edit

 
Charlie Chaplin

Nobel Prizes Edit

Movies released Edit

 
Model of spacecraft from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Hit songs Edit

 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2013

New books Edit

 
Irwin Shaw in 1948