List of Famous people who died in 1977

Benito Quinquela Martín was an Argentine painter. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters. His paintings of port scenes show the activity, vigor and roughness of the daily life in the port of La Boca.

Yvonne Printemps was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally.

Rear Admiral Tadashi Maeda was a high-ranking Imperial Japanese Navy officer during the Pacific War. Maeda played an important role in Indonesian independence; he met Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta at his house in Jakarta on 16 August 1945 and his house was used for drafting the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence. After leaving military service, Maeda worked in the oil industry.

Marien Ngouabi was the third President of the Republic of the Congo from January 1, 1969, to March 18, 1977.

Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky was a Russian actor and director.

Zha Liangzheng, better known by his pen name Mu Dan, was a Chinese poet. Born in Tianjin, he attended Tsinghua University at the age of 17, and graduated from National Southwestern Associated University in 1940. He served as an assistant lecturer of English at his alma mater for about two years. During World War II, he joined the Chinese Expedition Force in Burma and fought alongside the Allied forces against the Japanese. After the war ended, he attended the University of Chicago, where he obtained a master's degree in English literature. He was a distant paternal relative of the wuxia novelist Louis Cha.

Karl John was a German film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1977. He was born in Cologne, Germany and died in Gütersloh, Germany.

William Castle was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

Rutilio Grande García was a Jesuit priest in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1977, along with two other Salvadorans. He was the first priest assassinated before the civil war started and a close friend of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero. After his death, the Archbishop changed his conservative attitude toward the government and urged the government to investigate the murder. His beatification, through his status as a martyr was approved by Pope Francis on February 21, 2020, with the beatification ceremony being held at a later date.

Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro Gutiérrez better known as Waldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger.