List of Famous people who died at 77

Slavomir Miklovš was the Byzantine Catholic bishop of Eparchy of Križevci. He was an ethnic Rusyn.

Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with Minimal art, Conceptual art, and Land art of the 1960s.

Heimrad Bäcker was an Austrian publisher and writer. The Heimrad-Bäcker-Preis is named after him.

Renate Lepsius was a German journalist, historian and politician (SPD). She resigned from the German parliament ("Bundestag") ahead of the 1987 election, by which time she had spent almost fifteen years as a high-profile member of it. That same year saw the publication of, "Frauenpolitik als Beruf. Gespräche mit SPD Parlementarierrinnen", which the respected commentator Rolf Zundel, writing in 1987, described as "probably the most impressive book about women in politics for many years".