List of Famous people who died at 77

Omer Taverne was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who won two stages in the Tour de France.

Robert Erskine Morrison was a British rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Garrett Lewis was an American actor, dancer, and set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Monsignor Dr. Joakim Herbut 14 February 1928 – 15 April 2005) was a Macedonian Catholic prelate. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Skopje-Prizren from 1969 to 2005 and exarch of the Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarch of Macedonia from 2001 to 2005.

Fernando Sandoval was a Brazilian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He died from complications due to COVID-19.

Claude Klotz, better known by his pen name Patrick Cauvin, was a French writer.

Hans-Joachim Born was a German radiochemist trained and educated at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie. Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskij's Abteilung für Experimentelle Genetik, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung. He was taken prisoner by the Russians at the close of World War II. After rescue from the Krasnoyarsk PoW camp, he initially worked in Nikolaus Riehl's group at Plant No. 12 in Elektrostal’, Russia, but at the end of 1947 was sent to work in Sungul' at a sharashka known under the cover name Ob’ekt 0211. At the Sungul' facility, he again worked in a biological research department under the direction of Timofeev-Resovskij. Upon arrival in East Germany in the mid-1950s, Born became the director of the Institut für Angewandte Isotopenforschung in Buch, Berlin. He also completed his Habilitation at the Technische Hochschule Dresden, where he then also became a professor on the Fakultät für Kerntechnik. In 1957, he received and accepted a call to become a professor of radiochemistry at the Technische Hochschule München in West Germany.