List of Famous people who died at 77

Walter Paul Emil Schreiber was a medical officer with the German Army in World War I and a brigadier-general (Generalarzt) of the Wehrmacht Medical Service during World War II. He would later serve as a key witness against Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg Trials.

Erwin Richard Fues, was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, quantum wave mechanics, and solid-state physics.

Benjamin Everett Jordan was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 1958 to 1973.

Eckart Höfling was a German Catholic priest who worked combating poverty in Brazil.

Frank Clifford (1898–1976) was a German film producer. He was involved in early attempts to pioneer sound film production in Europe, directing the short film Paganini in Venice for Tobis Film. During the early 1930s he worked at the Epinay Studios in Paris, overseeing several films produced by the French subsidiary of Tobis. After the Second World War he worked briefly as a screenwriter for DEFA in East Berlin.

Sheng Zhongguo was a Chinese violinist, best known for his rendition of the orchestra work Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto. He is widely considered one of China's greatest violinists, known as "China's Menuhin". In 1980, he was named by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as "one of the world's greatest artists".