List of Famous people who died in 1977

Franz Böhm was a German politician, lawyer, and economist.

Anthony Hugh Francis Harry St Clair-Erskine, styled Lord Loughborough from 1929 to 1939, was a British peer. The Earl's lands included the noted Rosslyn Chapel.

James Edward Macartney was an Australian newspaper editor and executive from Perth, Western Australia. He served for periods as editor of the Daily News and The West Australian, and was later managing director of West Australian Newspapers Ltd. (WAN) from 1962 to 1969.

Leonardo Bonzi was an Italian bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson FRSE PZS CB LLD was a Scottish medical researcher, mainly remembered as an amateur ornithologist and ornithological author and acknowledged expert on bird migration.

Émile Gilioli, was a French sculptor.

Risto Antero Jarva was a Finnish filmmaker. His last film was Jäniksen vuosi. He died in a car accident on his way back from a private showing of the film, and the subsequent party.