List of Famous people who died at 77

Raymond Joseph Smith was an American educator, author, and book editor. He was for more than 30 years the editor of Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher. He was married to the American author Joyce Carol Oates.

Charles Lacquehay was a French professional cyclist who won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1933 and 1935, finishing second in 1936. During his career that spanned from 1919 to 1938 he took part in 21 six-day races, winning five: in Paris, Berlin (1926), Breslau (1927) and Nice (1928).

Henry Hubert Turner was an American endocrinologist, noted for his published description of Turner syndrome in 1938 at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. He served as chief of endocrinology and as associate dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Joseph A. "Doc" Alexander was an American football player, who played center, tackle, guard, and end, and coach in the National Football League.

A. Marten Mendez (1916–1994) was an American badminton player of Mexican descent who won national titles and represented his country internationally in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Known for his swift court coverage and stamina, Mendez won the U.S. men's singles title in 1949, 1950, and 1952, and reached the final in 1948 and 1951. He was a member of the 1948-1949 and 1951-1952 U.S. Thomas Cup teams which made strong runs at the world championship. In the '51-'52 series, at the age of 36, Mendez won three of his four singles matches against India and Malaya in Singapore's equatorial heat, losing only to the great Wong Peng Soon. Mendez was elected to the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame in 1967.

Jean Pierre Duvieusart was a Belgian Catholic politician of the PSC-CVP who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from June to August in 1950.

Alexander Kartveli, born Aleksandre Kartvelishvili, was an influential Georgian aircraft engineer and a pioneer in the United States. Kartveli achieved important breakthroughs in military aviation in the time of turbojet fighters.