List of Famous people who died in 1977

Writer Fredric M. Frank was a favourite scribe of Cecil B. deMille and worked with him on several of his epic productions throughout the 1940s and 1950s including Unconquered, Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Show on Earth for which he won an Academy Award for Best Story, and The Ten Commandments.

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti was an Italian mathematician, brother of politician Palmiro Togliatti.He was a researcher at the ETH Zurich from 1924 to 1926. He discovered Togliatti surfaces.

Dietrich Richard Alfred von Hildebrand was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and religious writer.

Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden, was a British aristocrat who served as High Sheriff of the County of London.

Alexander Andries Maramis, also known as A. A. Maramis, was an Indonesian politician involved in the struggle for the independence of the country. He was a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK) that drafted the Constitution. In the early stages of the Indonesian government, he served as both Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also served in several ambassadorships. Maramis was posthumously given the honorary title of National Hero of Indonesia in 2019.

Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm, was a German politician for the Free Democtratic Party.

Leif Thormod Panduro was a Danish writer, novelist, short story writer, and dramatist. A dentist by profession, he began in his thirties to write stories about people who can't conform to society's rules for one reason or another. Rend mig i traditionerne, from 1959 is about an adolescent who finally ends up in an asylum because he thinks society is mad. This novel was made into a film in 1979. Fern fra Danmark is about a man who wakes up in a hospital with amnesia but discovers more and more about a not very pleasant self.

Heinrich Alexander Stoll was the pen name used by the German writer Heinrich Joachim Friedrich Karl Hans Stoll. During the 1950s and 1960s he emerged in East Germany as a prolific author of adventure novels, historical novels and reworkings of ancient legends, along with short stories and science fiction works. There are nevertheless suggestions that the reality of his own experiences as a young man, during twelve years under Hitler followed by six years under Soviet military administration and the early years of the Ulbricht dictatorship, were a match for almost any novel.