List of Famous people who died at 77

Pierre Guitton was a French painter and comic book author and artist. He notably designed the pages of Charlie Mensuel and Hara-Kiri.

Diodoros or Diodorus Greek: Διόδωρος; born Damianos G. Karivalis Greek: Δαμιανός Γ. Καρίβαλης was the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from 1980 to 2000.

László Papp was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. A southpaw, he won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. In his final Olympic competition, he became the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals. He made a remarkable achievement in Olympic boxing sport by winning 12 of his 13 Olympic fights, which he won the 12 fights without losing a round, and dropped only a single round in his last Olympic, to American boxer José Torres. There would not be another triple gold medalist for 20 years, when Teófilo Stevenson won three, followed by Félix Savón as the latest one of the three men to accomplish the feat.

Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix, Spain.

Arnaldo Ninchi was an Italian actor, voice actor and basketball player.