Aged 77
Famous people who died at 77
265 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 77, including Galileo Galilei, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Le Corbusier. Here are the 100 best known.
- Galileo GalileiItalian polymath · 1564–1642
- Carl Friedrich GaussGerman mathematician and physicist · 1777–1855
- Le CorbusierSwiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer · 1887–1965
- Jules VerneFrench writer · 1828–1905
- Niels BohrDanish physicist · 1885–1962
- Nikita KhrushchevLeader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 · 1894–1971
- Jonathan SwiftAnglo-Irish satirist and essayist · 1667–1745
- Joseph HaydnAustrian composer · 1732–1809
- Wilhelm RöntgenGerman physicist · 1845–1923
- James BuchananPresident of the United States from 1857 to 1861 · 1791–1868
- Auguste RodinFrench sculptor · 1840–1917
- Pierre-Simon LaplaceFrench mathematician and astronomer · 1749–1827
- Ayn RandRussian-born American writer and public philosopher · 1905–1982
- Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonNorwegian writer · 1832–1910
- Toshirō MifuneJapanese actor · 1920–1997
- Diogenes of Sinope4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher · c. 400–323 BC
- TiberiusSecond Roman Emperor from 14 to 37 AD · 42 BC–AD 37
- John DaltonBritish chemist and mathematician · 1766–1844
- Edward VIIIKing of the United Kingdom in 1936 · 1894–1972
- Georgy ZhukovMarshal of the Soviet Union · 1896–1974
- Joseph-Louis LagrangeMathematician and astronomer · 1736–1813
- Roger Martin du GardFrench writer · 1881–1958
- Henry FondaAmerican actor · 1905–1982
- J. M. BarrieScottish writer and playwright · 1860–1937
- Zhou Enlai1st Premier of the People's Republic of China · 1898–1976
- Robert BrowningEnglish poet and playwright · 1812–1889
- Ibn SaudKing of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953 · 1876–1953
- Frederick DouglassAfrican-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist · 1818–1895
- Jacques-Louis DavidFrench painter · 1748–1825
- Karen BlixenDanish writer · 1885–1962
- Johannes V. JensenDanish author · 1873–1950
- Julius NyerereTanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania · 1922–1999
- Mu'awiya IFounder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate · c. AD 603–680
- Beatrix PotterBritish children's writer and illustrator · 1866–1943
- Charles Édouard GuillaumeSwiss physicist · 1861–1938
- Athanasius of AlexandriaPope of Alexandria from 328 to 373 · c. AD 296–373
- Bernardo BertolucciItalian film director and screenwriter · 1941–2018
- Jean BaudrillardFrench sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist · 1929–2007
- Walther Hermann NernstGerman physical chemist and physicist · 1864–1941
- Lucille BallAmerican actress · 1911–1989
- Luis Walter AlvarezAmerican experimental physicist, inventor, and professor · 1911–1988
- Felix BlochSwiss physicist · 1905–1983
- Ferdinand FochFrench marchal and military theorist · 1851–1929
- Jacques PrévertFrench poet and screenwriter · 1900–1977
- Franjo TuđmanCroatian politician, soldier, president and historian · 1922–1999
- Jean AnouilhFrench playwright · 1910–1987
- Oriana FallaciItalian journalist · 1929–2006
- Paul AusterAmerican novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter · 1947–2024
- Frits ZernikeDutch physicist · 1888–1966
- Harold LloydAmerican actor and comedian · 1893–1971
- Léon BlumFrench politician · 1872–1950
- Robert SchumanLuxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable · 1886–1963
- Seleucus I NicatorGeneral of Alexander and founder of the Seleucid dynasty · c. 358–281 BC
- Arthur Leonard SchawlowAmerican physicist · 1921–1999
- Spiro AgnewVice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973 · 1918–1996
- Ted KennedyUnited States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009 · 1932–2009
- Arthur KoestlerHungarian-British author and journalist · 1905–1983
- Henry A. WallaceAmerican politician (1888–1965); Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945 · 1888–1965
- Ragnar FrischNorwegian economist · 1895–1973
- Mario MolinaMexican chemical engineer · 1943–2020
- Chaim WeizmannIsraeli statesman and British chemist · 1874–1952
- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor · 1881–1959
- Kenneth G. WilsonNobel prize winning US physicist · 1936–2013
- Annie Jump CannonAmerican astronomer · 1863–1941
- Honorius IVPope of the Catholic Church from 1285 to 1287 · c. 1210–1287
- Janet GaynorAmerican actress · 1906–1984
- Otto Dix ↗German painter and printmaker · 1891–1969
- Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor ↗Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke · 1415–1493
- George Eastman ↗American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer · 1854–1932
- János Kádár ↗Former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party · 1912–1989
- John Hurt ↗British actor · 1940–2017
- Benny Goodman ↗American jazz clarinetist and bandleader · 1909–1986
- David Trimble ↗First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002 · 1944–2022
- Gerd von Rundstedt ↗German Field Marshal during World War II · 1875–1953
- J. Edgar Hoover ↗American law enforcement administrator · 1895–1972
- Janet Leigh ↗American actress · 1927–2004
- Justin I ↗Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527 · c. AD 450–527
- Karl Carstens ↗President of the Federal Republic of Germany · 1914–1992
- Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi ↗Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher · 1894–1972
- Bruno Ganz ↗Swiss actor · 1941–2019
- Heinrich Lübke ↗German politician · 1894–1972
- August Ferdinand Möbius ↗German mathematician and astronomer · 1790–1868
- Charles Lyell ↗British geologist · 1797–1875
- John Barry ↗British composer and conductor · 1933–2011
- Junko Tabei ↗Japanese mountain climber · 1939–2016
- Käthe Kollwitz ↗German printmaker and sculptor · 1867–1945
- Nicolas Malebranche ↗French philosopher · 1638–1715
- Rod Steiger ↗American actor · 1925–2002
- Terry Jones ↗Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer · 1942–2020
- August Wilhelm von Schlegel ↗German poet, translator, critic, and writer · 1767–1845
- Celia Cruz ↗Cuban singer · 1925–2003
- Christian II of Denmark ↗King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden · 1481–1559
- Fredric March ↗American actor · 1897–1975
- George A. Romero ↗Canadian-American filmmaker · 1940–2017
- Jiang Qing ↗Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong · 1914–1991
- Kanō Jigorō ↗Japanese educator and judoka · 1860–1938
- Lady Godiva ↗Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Countess of Leicester · c. 990–1067
- Paul Lauterbur ↗American chemist · 1929–2007
- Tomás de Torquemada ↗Grand Inquisitor of Spain · 1420–1498
- Vittorio Gassman ↗Italian actor · 1922–2000
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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