List of Famous people who died in 1977

Meng Xiaodong was a Chinese actress of Peking opera who specialized in old sheng (male) roles.

Thomas Maldwyn Pryce was a British racing driver from Wales known for winning the Brands Hatch Race of Champions, a non-championship Formula One race, in 1975 and for the circumstances surrounding his death. Pryce is the only Welsh driver to have won a Formula One race and is also the only Welshman to lead a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix: two laps of the 1975 British Grand Prix.

Otto Gabriel Grubbe Dietrichson Falkenberg was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.

Johannes Leimena was a Moluccan politician and physician who is a National Hero of Indonesia. He was one of the longest-serving government ministers in Indonesia and the longest-serving under Sukarno's presidency, most prominently filling the roles of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health. He also served in the People's Representative Council and the Constitutional Assembly. An Ambonese Christian, he was a member of the Indonesian Christian Party (Parkindo) and was its chairman between 1950 and 1961.

Blessed Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez - in religion María Carmen - was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic professed religious from the Servants of the Eucharist and the founder of the Servants of Jesus of Caracas. Rendiles served in a leadership position for her order in France where she spent her time of religious formation and returned to Venezuela to found her order in 1965 and assume control as Superior-General of her new order.

Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was one of the most well-known and beloved Russian operatic lyric tenors.

Gustav Abraham Schickedanz was a German entrepreneur. He had two daughters, Madeleine Schickedanz and Louise Dedi.

Eve Meyer was an American pin-up model, motion picture actress, and film producer. Much of her work was done in conjunction with sexploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer, to whom she was married from 1952 to 1969. She was killed in the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977.

Alfred Rasser was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor who starred predominantly in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions, but he was also known for the role of Theophil Läppli, a parody on the Swiss militarism.