List of Famous people who died at 77
Frank Kelly
Francis Kelly was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best known for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.
Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist and author. Cosell became prominent and influential during his tenure with ABC Sports from 1953 until 1985.
Hélène Pastor
Hélène Pastor was an heiress, businesswoman and the richest woman in Monaco, "the senior surviving member of what is, in effect, Monaco’s second dynasty after the ruling Grimaldis". She was murdered in May 2014.
Sergey Filippov
Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov (Russian: Серге′й Никола′евич Фили′ппов, 24 June 1912, Saratov, Russian Empire — 19 April 1990, Leningrad, USSR was a Soviet film and theatre actor, best known for his parts in films Adventures of Korzinkina, The Night Patrol and the adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's classic The Twelve Chairs, which granted him the People's Artist of the RSFSR title in 1974.
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior and as "the only couturier in the truest sense of the word" by Coco Chanel, who continued, "The others are simply fashion designers". On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline "The king is dead".
Fazıl Küçük
Fazıl Küçük was a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.
Joe Kieyoomia
Joe Kieyoomia was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery unit who was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942 during World War II. Kieyoomia was a POW in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell.
John Anthony Walker
John Anthony Walker Jr. was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985 and sentenced to life in prison.
Latife Uşaki
Latife Uşaklıgil was Mustafa Kemal's wife between 1923 and 1925. She was related from her father's side to Turkish novelist Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil.
Charles R. Larson
Charles Robert Larson was an Admiral of the United States Navy.