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 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Films released 5 Hit songs 6 New books

[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