1977
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| Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1974 1975 1976 - 1977 - 1978 1979 1980 |
Contents |
[change] Events
- July 13 - The New York Blackout
- November 13 - Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry
- Hot Press, an Irish music magazine debuts.
- Blue Öyster Cult release their album Spectres
[change] Births
- January 8 - Amber Benson, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- January 13 - Orlando Bloom, English actor (The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Troy)
- January 28 - Daunte Culpepper, NFL quarterback
- February 2 - Shakira, Colombian musician
- February 3 - Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer
- March 2 - Chris Martin, English singer (Coldplay)
- March 8 - James Van Der Beek, American actor
- April 9 - Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
- April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- May 19 - Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer
- June 10 - Schapelle Corby, Australian criminal
- July 8 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
- July 14 - Princess Victoria of Sweden, heiress apparent of Sweden
- July 17 - M.I.A., English musician
- August 3 - Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
- August 4 - Yūko Kohara, Japanese manga artist
- August 17 - William Gallas, French footballer
- August 17 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
- August 24 - Robert Enke, German footballer
- August 31 - Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
- September 15 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer
- September 20 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
- November 10 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
- November 16 - Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
- December 1 - Melinda Doolittle, American singer
- December 3 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper
- December 7 - Dominic Howard, English musician (Muse)
[change] Deaths
- January 14 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
- March 4 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887)
- May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (b. 1897)
- July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
- August 16 - Elvis Presley, American singer (b. 1935)
- August 19 - Groucho Marx, American actor (b. 1890)
- October 14 - Bing Crosby, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
- October 18 - Andreas Baader, German terrorist (b. 1943)
- November 14 - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)
- December 10 - Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
- Ali Shariati, Iranian writer and philosopher (b. 1933)
[change] Films released
- Annie Hall
- Candleshoe
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Saturday Night Fever
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
[change] Hit songs
- "Alison" - Elvis Costello
- "American Girl" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "Amoureuse de la vie" - Dalida
- "Angel In Your Arms" - Hot
- "Another Star" - Stevie Wonder
- "April Sun In Cuba" - Dragon
- "As" - Stevie Wonder
- "Baby What A Big Surprise" - Chicago
- "Barracuda" - Heart
- "Black Betty" - Ram Jam
- "Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt
- "Boogie Nights" - Heatwave
- "California" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- "Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft" - The Carpenters
- "Captain Sky" - Dalida
- "Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas
- "Cold As Ice" - Foreigner
- "Come Sail Away" - Styx
- "Complete Control" - The Clash
- "Coyote" - Joni Mitchell
- "Dancing In The Moonlight(It's Caught Me In The Spotlight)" - Thin Lizzy
- "Dancing The Night Away" - The Motors
- "Daytime Friends" - Kenny Rogers
- "Disco Inferno" - The Trammps
- "Do Anything You Wanna Do" - Eddie and the Hotrods
- "Don't Believe A Word" - Thin Lizzy
- "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" - Crystal Gayle
- "Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac
- "Down To Zero" - Joan Armatrading
- "Dr Love" - Tina Charles
- "Dreamboat Annie" - Heart
- "Fanfare For The Common Man" - Emerson Lake and Palmer
- "Father Christmas" - The Kinks
- "Feels Like The First Time" - Foreigner
- "Femme est la Nuit" - Dalida
- "Fly Like An Eagle" - Steve Miller Band
- "(Get A)Grip(On Yourself)" - The Stranglers
- "Give A Little Bit" - Supertramp
- "Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac
- "God Save The Queen" - The Sex Pistols
- "Heard It In A Love Song" - Marshall Tucker
- "Heartsong" - Gordon Giltrap
- "Hello Stranger" - Yvonne Elliman
- "Help Is On It's Way" - Little River Band
- "Here Come Those Tears Again" - Jackson Browne
- "Heroes" - David Bowie
- "Holidays In The Sun" - The Sex Pistols
- "I Need A Man" - Grace Jones
- "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" - Warren Zevon
- "I'm In You" - Peter Frampton
- "In The Flesh" - Blondie
- "Jamming/Punky Reggae Party" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
- "Jet Airliner" - Steve Miller Band
- "Jungle Love" - Steve Miller Band
- "Killing of Georgie, Pt. 1-2" - Rod Stewart
- "Let There Be Rock" - AC/DC
- "Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs
- "Life In The Fast Lane" - The Eagles
- "Like A Huricane" - Neil Young
- "Livin' Thing" - Electric Light Orchestra
- "Living Next Door To Alice" - Smokie
- "Lonely Boy" - Andrew Gold
- "Love Is The Answer" - Utopia
- "Ma Baker" - Boney M
- "Magazine Madonna - Sherbet
- "Mannequin" - Wire
- "Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett
- "Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) - Paul McCartney & Wings
- "Memory Motel" - The Rolling Stones
- "More Than A Feeling" - Boston
- "Motorhead" - Motorhead
- "No More Heroes" - The Stranglers
- "Nobody Does It Better" - Carly Simon
- "Peaches/Go Buddy Go" - The Stranglers
- "Pearl's A Singer" - Elkie Brooks
- "Portsmouth" - Mike Oldfield
- "The Pretender" - Jackson Browne
- "Pretty Vacant" - The Sex Pistols
- "Really Free" - John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
- "Remember... C'était loin" - Dalida & Richard Chanfray as St-Germain
- "Rip To Her Shreds" - Blondie
- "Rockaria" - Electric Light Orchestra
- "Rockin' All Over The World" - Status Quo
- "Rose Of Cimarron(EP)" - Poco
- "Salma Ya Salama" - Dalida
- "Save It For A Rainy Day" - Stephen Bishop
- "Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll" - Ian Dury
- "She's Not There" - Santana
- "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" - The Ramones
- "Smoke On The Water" - Deep Purple
- "Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel
- "Something Better Change/Straighten Out" - The Stranglers
- "Sound And Vision" - David Bowie
- "Things We Do For Love" - 10cc
- "This Is Tomorrow" - Bryan Ferry
- "Ti Amo (Je t'aime)" - Dalida
- "Tie Your Mother Down" - Queen
- "2-4-6-8 Motorway" - Tom Robinson Band
- "Tumbling Dice" - Linda Ronstadt
- "Walk This Way" - Aerosmith
- "Watching The Detectives" - Elvis Costello
- "We Are The Champions" - Queen
- "We Will Rock You" - Queen
- "We Just Disagree" - Dave Mason
- "White Riot" - The Clash
- "Whole Wide World" - Wreckless Eric
- "Wild Side Of Life" - Status Quo
- "Wonderous Stories" - Yes
- "Year Of The Cat" - Al Stewart
- "You And Me" - Alice Cooper
- "You Yesyesyes" - The Residents
- "You're In My Heart" - Rod Stewart
- "You're Moving Out Today" - Carole Bayer Sager
- "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" - Rita Coolidge
- "Your Song" - Billy Paul
[change] New books
- The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
- Beggarman, Thief - Irwin Shaw
- Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon
- A Bonus - Elizabeth Smart
- The Chancellor Manuscript - Robert Ludlum
- Child of the Morning - Pauline Gedge
- The Complete Book of Running - Jim Fixx
- Daniel Martin - John Fowles
- Dreams Die First - Harold Robbins
- The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré
- How to Save Your Own Life - Erica Jong
- Illusions - Richard Bach
- James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me - Christopher Wood
- Oliver's Story - Erich Segal
- The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
- Rage - Richard Bachman
- Refiner's Fire - Mark Helprin
- A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
- The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
- The Shining - Stephen King
- The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Slave Girl - Buchi Emecheta
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
- The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
- The True American, A Folk Fable - Melvin Van Peebles
- The Wars - Timothy Findley
- Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son - Everett M. Skehan
