List of Famous people who died in 1977

Dorothy Christy was an American actress.

Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard, known professionally as Cyril Ritchard, was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is best remembered today for his performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. In 1945, he played Gabriele Eisenstein in Gay Rosalinda at the Palace theatre in London, a version of Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in which he appeared with Peter Graves. The show was conducted by Richard Tauber and ran for almost a year.

Louis Duerloo was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the Belgian national road race title in 1933 and the Tour of Flanders in 1935.

Beatrice Prentice was a stage actress of the early 20th century.

Claudia Dell was an American showgirl and actress of the stage and Hollywood motion pictures.

Bhagwantrao Mandloi, an Indian National Congress politician was a former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was born in Khandwa. He was a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan.

Son Ngoc Thanh was a Cambodian nationalist and republican politician, with a long history as a rebel and a government minister.

Zeev "William" Chomsky was an American scholar of Hebrew. He was born in Ukraine and settled in the United States in 1913.

Friedrich Karl Schmidt was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory.