List of Famous people who died in 1977

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Mochammad Idjon Djanbi previously known as Rodes Barendrecht "Rokus" Visser, also spelled as Barendregt, was a Dutch-born Indonesian soldier who served as a Dutch commando during World War II, Korps Speciale Troepen officer and eventually became first commander of Kopassus.

Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967.

Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat, Soviet aircraft and missile designer.

Bradley King was the pen name of Josephine McLaughlin. She was a screenwriter who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947. All but one of her 40 silent films are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist.

Thomas Lionel Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne,, known as Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet from 1945 to 1959, was a British Conservative Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Down Affair, often quoted as a classic example of the convention of individual ministerial responsibility.

Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi was an Iraqi poet, "a poet of extreme simplicity of style and a poetic diction that often approximates to ordinary speech".

Florence Vidor was an American silent film actress.

Willi Becker was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party. Because of a disease Becker committed suicide.