List of Famous people who died at 77

Dick N. Lucas was an American film animator, noteworthy as part of Walt Disney's Animation Department.

Celso Yegros Estigarribia was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Carapequá, Paraguay.

Matthew Michael "Matty" Malneck was an American jazz violinist, songwriter, and arranger.

Gilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958). He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. He was most interested in American popular culture and cultural history. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s. Later, he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for CBS News and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Denis Carey was a British actor who appeared in many film and television roles.