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== Events ==
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* [[December 26]] – [[Katimavik]] is founded as a volunteer service organization for Canadian youths.
* [[December 28]] – The [[Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977]] hits Buffalo, New York, and the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.
* [[December 31]] – The [[Centre Georges Pompidou]] is officially opened by French President [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]].

=== 
FebruaryNovember ===
* [[FebruaryNovember 2]] The Congress party of India, led by [[Indira Gandhi]], splits with [[Jagjivan Ram]] and other senior leaders, forming [[Congress for Democracy]]. This party later merges with the [[Janata Party]].
* [[FebruaryNovember 4]] – [[Fleetwood Mac]]'s [[Grammy]]-winning album ''[[Rumours (album)|Rumours]]'' is released.
* [[FebruaryNovember 7]]
** – The [[Soviet Union]] launches ''[[Soyuz 24]]'' ([[Viktor Gorbatko]], [[Yury Glazkov]]) to dock with the ''[[Salyut 5]]'' space station.
**  – London’s International Times proclaims for the first time the famous quote; “punk is dead.”
* [[FebruaryNovember 15]] – [[Space Shuttle program]]: First test taxi flight of [[Space Shuttle Enterprise]].
* [[FebruaryNovember 18]] – Prog 1 of [[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]] is launched (issue dated 26 FebruaryNovember 1977).
* [[FebruaryNovember 23]] – [[Óscar Romero]] becomes Archbishop of San Salvador.
* [[FebruaryNovember 28]] – Queen [[Elizabeth II]] opens the [[Parliament of New Zealand]].
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=== March ===
* [[March 4]] – The [[1977 Vrancea earthquake|1977 Bucharest Earthquake]] kills 1,500.
* [[March 5]] – [[Formula One]] driver [[Tom Pryce]] dies after colliding with a [[track marshal]] at the [[South African Grand Prix]] in [[Kyalami]].
* [[March 8]] – The [[Parliament of Australia|Australian parliament]] is opened by [[Elizabeth II]], Queen of Australia.
(contracted; show full)* [[December 27]] – [[Jermaine Jackson|Jermaine Jackson, Jr.]], African-American actor
* [[December 28]]
** [[Lyle Overbay]], American baseball player
** [[Daunte Culpepper]], American football player
** [[Joey Fatone]], American musician ([['N Sync]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Mark Dutiaume]], Canadian hockey player

=== 
FebruaryNovember ===
[[File:Shakira Rio 03.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Shakira]]]]
[[File:Barry hall.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Barry Hall]]]]
* [[FebruaryNovember 2]]
** [[Shakira]], Colombian musician
** [[Jessica Wahls]], German pop singer
* [[FebruaryNovember 4]] – [[Gavin DeGraw]], singer/songwriter
* [[FebruaryNovember 5]]
** [[Adam Everett]], American baseball player
** [[Ahmad Merritt]], American football player
** [[Ben Ainslie]], British sailor
* [[FebruaryNovember 7]] – [[Paul Comrie]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[FebruaryNovember 8]]
** [[Yucef Merhi]], Venezuelan artist
** [[Barry Hall]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[FebruaryNovember 9]] – [[Ledina Çelo]], Albanian singer and model
* [[FebruaryNovember 11]]
** [[Randy Moss]], American football player
** [[Mike Shinoda]], American rock musician (Linkin Park)
* [[FebruaryNovember 16]] – [[Ian Clarke (computer scientist)|Ian Clarke]], Irish computer scientist
* [[FebruaryNovember 18]] – [[Ike Barinholtz]], American actor, comedian and screenwriter
* [[FebruaryNovember 19]] – [[Gianluca Zambrotta]], Italian footballer
* [[FebruaryNovember 20]]
** [[Stephon Marbury]], American basketball player
** [[Amal Hijazi]], Lebanese singer and model
* [[FebruaryNovember 21]] 
** [[Jonathan Safran Foer]], American author
** [[Kevin Rose]], American television host
* [[FebruaryNovember 23]] – [[Kristina Šmigun-Vähi]], Estonian skier
* [[FebruaryNovember 24]]
** [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]], boxing champion
** [[Jason Akermanis]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[FebruaryNovember 27]] – [[Ji Sung]], South Korean actor
* [[FebruaryNovember 28]] – [[Jason Aldean]], American country music singer

=== March ===
[[File:Chris Martin-viva-cropped.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Chris Martin]]]]
[[File:JAMES VAN DER BEEK sansierra studio cropped.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[James Van Der Beek]]]]
[[File:Jessica Chastain Cannes 2012 (revised).jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Jessica Chastain]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Rens Blom]], Dutch athlete
* [[March 2]]
(contracted; show full)** [[Eero Nelimarkka]], Finnish painter (b. [[1891]])
** [[Walter Baldwin]], prolific character actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Burt Mustin]], American actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[Buster Nupen]], South African cricketer (b. [[1902]])
** [[Freddie Prinze]], American actor and comedian (''Chico and the Man'') (b. [[1954]])

=== 
FebruaryNovember ===
[[File:Queenalia.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Queen Alia]]]]

* [[FebruaryNovember 3]] – [[Pauline Starke]], American actress (b. [[1901]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 4]] – [[Brett Halliday]], American writer (b. [[1904]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 5]] – [[Oskar Klein]],  Swedish theoretical physicist (b. [[1894]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 6]] – [[George John Park]], New Zealand teacher and technical college principal (b. [[1880]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 8]] – [[Olinda Bozán]], was an actress in Argentina (b. [[1894]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 9]] – [[Alia al-Hussein|Queen Alia]], Queen of Jordan (b. [[1948]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 11]] – [[Louis Beel]], [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 12]] 
** [[Herman Dooyeweerd]], Dutch juridical scholar by training (b. [[1894]])
** [[Henry Jordan]], American football player ([[Green Bay Packers]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1935]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 13]] – [[Alberto Diena]], Italy, was an expert on stamps of Italy (b. [[1894]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 14]] – [[Bill Tilman]], English mountaineer and explorer(b. [[1898]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 15]] – [[Herman Johannes Lam]], Dutch botanist (b. [[1892]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 16]] 
** [[Rózsa Péter]], Hungarian mathematician (b. [[1905]])
** [[Carlos Pellicer]], first wave of modernist Mexican poets  (b. [[1897]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 17]] – [[Mary Anne Reidy]], New Zealand civilian and military nurse, community leader (b. [[1880]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 18]]
** [[Andy Devine]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
** [[Ralph Graves]], American actor (b. [[1900]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 18]] – [[Chandabai]],  Jain scholar and a pioneer of women's education in India(b. [[1880]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 19]] – [[Anthony Crosland]], British author and politician (b. [[1918]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 20]] 
** [[Ralph Hungerford]], American naval officer, 33rd [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1896]])
** [[Christoffel Venter]], South African military commander (b. [[1892]])
** [[Yisrael Alter]], the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger (b. [[1895]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 21]] – [[John Hubley]], American animator (b. [[1914]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 25]] 
** [[Patricia Haines]], British actress (b. [[1932]])
** [[Cuthbert Dukes]], English physician and pathologist and author,(b. [[1890]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 26]] – [[Aurel Persu]], Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer (b. [[1890]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 27]] – [[Allison Hayes]], American actress (b. [[1930]])
* [[FebruaryNovember 28]] – [[Eddie "Rochester" Anderson]], African-American actor (''The Jack Benny Show'') (b. [[1905]])

=== March ===
* [[March 2]] – [[Paul Rohmer]], Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics (b. [[1876]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Percy Marmont]], stage & screen actor (b. [[1883]])
* [[March 4]] 
** [[Andrés Caicedo]], Colombian writer (b. [[1951]])
** [[Ola Solberg]], Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (b. [[1886]])
(contracted; show full)* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] – [[Bertil Ohlin]], [[James Meade]]

== References ==
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