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== Events ==
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* [[November 15]] – [[Space Shuttle program]]: First test taxi flight of [[Space Shuttle Enterprise]].
* [[November 18]] – Prog 1 of [[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]] is launched (issue dated 26 November 1977).
* [[November 23]] – [[Óscar Romero]] becomes Archbishop of San Salvador.
* [[November 28]] – Queen [[Elizabeth II]] opens the [[Parliament of New Zealand]].
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=== 
MarchOctober ===
* [[MarchOctober 4]] – The [[1977 Vrancea earthquake|1977 Bucharest Earthquake]] kills 1,500.
* [[MarchOctober 5]] – [[Formula One]] driver [[Tom Pryce]] dies after colliding with a [[track marshal]] at the [[South African Grand Prix]] in [[Kyalami]].
* [[MarchOctober 8]] – The [[Parliament of Australia|Australian parliament]] is opened by [[Elizabeth II]], Queen of Australia.
* [[MarchOctober 9]] – [[1977 Hanafi Siege|Hanafi Siege]]: Approximately a dozen armed [[Nation of Islam|Hanafi Movement]] members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later).
* [[MarchOctober 10]] – The [[rings of Uranus]] are discovered.
* [[MarchOctober 12]] – The [[Centenary Test]] between Australia and England begins at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]].
* [[MarchOctober 15]] – Tenor [[Luciano Pavarotti]] and the [[PBS]] opera series ''[[Live from the Met]]'' both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of [[Puccini]]'s ''[[La Boheme]]''.
* [[MarchOctober 19]] – Results of elections to the [[Indian Parliament]] are declared. [[Indira Gandhi]]'s [[Congress (I)|Congress Party]] is routed by the opposition parties later to form the  [[Janata Party]].
* [[MarchOctober 26]] – [[Focus on the Family]] is founded by Dr. [[James Dobson]].
* [[MarchOctober 27]] – [[Tenerife airport disaster|Tenerife disaster]]: A collision between [[KLM]] and [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]] [[Boeing 747]]s at [[Tenerife]], [[Canary Islands]], kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.
* [[MarchOctober 28]] – [[Marquette University]] wins the men's NCAA basketball tournament with a win over the [[University of North Carolina]] 67-59.

=== April ===
* [[April 1]] – The small market town of [[Hay-on-Wye]] declares independence from the UK, as a [[publicity stunt]].
* [[April 2]] – [[Horse racing]] – [[Red Rum]] wins a record third [[Grand National]] at [[Aintree Racecourse]].
* [[April 4]]
(contracted; show full)* [[November 23]] – [[Kristina Šmigun-Vähi]], Estonian skier
* [[November 24]]
** [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]], boxing champion
** [[Jason Akermanis]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[November 27]] – [[Ji Sung]], South Korean actor
* [[November 28]] – [[Jason Aldean]], American country music singer

=== 
MarchOctober ===
[[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]]]]
* [[MarchOctober 1]] – [[Rens Blom]], Dutch athlete
* [[MarchOctober 2]]
** [[Chris Martin]], British rock musician ([[Coldplay]])
** [[Heather McComb]], American actress
* [[MarchOctober 3]] – [[Ronan Keating]], Irish singer ([[Boyzone]])
* [[MarchOctober 4]]
** [[Ana Guevara]], Mexican track and field athlete
** [[Daniel Klewer]], German footballer
** [[Christian Jessen]], TV presenter/doctor ''[[Embarrassing Bodies]]''
* [[MarchOctober 5]] – [[Wally Szczerbiak]], Spanish-born basketball player
* [[MarchOctober 6]]
** [[Paquillo Fernández]], Spanish race walker
** [[Santino Marella]], Canadian wrestler
* [[MarchOctober 7]]
** [[Ronan O'Gara]], Irish rugby player
** [[Mitja Zastrow]], German-born swimmer
** [[Paul Cattermole]], English singer ([[S Club 7]])
* [[MarchOctober 8]] – [[James Van Der Beek]], American actor
* [[MarchOctober 9]] – [[Lydia Mackay]], American voice actress
* [[MarchOctober 10]]
** [[Peter Enckelman]], Finnish footballer
** [[Shannon Miller]], American gymnast
** [[Rita Simons]], English Actor
** [[Robin Thicke]], American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor
* [[MarchOctober 11]]
** [[Becky Hammon]], American basketball player
** [[Jason Greeley]], Canadian singer
* [[MarchOctober 14]] – [[Kim Nam-il]], South Korean footballer
* [[MarchOctober 15]]
** [[Norifumi Yamamoto]], Japanese mixed martial artist
** [[Adrian Burnside]], Australian baseball player
* [[MarchOctober 18]] – [[Zdeno Chára]], Czechoslovakian (now [[Slovakia]]) hockey player
* [[MarchOctober 23]]
** [[Sammy Morris]], American football player
** [[Edwin Siu]], Hong Kong actor and singer
* [[MarchOctober 24]]
** [[Jessica Chastain]], American actress
** [[Darren Lockyer]], Australian rugby league player
* [[MarchOctober 27]]
** [[Vitor Meira]], Brazilian race car driver
** [[Roger Velasco]], American actor

=== April ===
[[File:Sarah Michelle Gellar.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Sarah Michelle Gellar]]]]
[[File:Frederik Magle conducting 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Frederik Magle]]]]
[[File:John Cena 134616.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[John Cena]]]]
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* [[November 25]] 
** [[Patricia Haines]], British actress (b. [[1932]])
** [[Cuthbert Dukes]], English physician and pathologist and author,(b. [[1890]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Aurel Persu]], Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Allison Hayes]], American actress (b. [[1930]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Eddie "Rochester" Anderson]], African-American actor (''The Jack Benny Show'') (b. [[1905]])

=== 
MarchOctober ===
* [[MarchOctober 2]] – [[Paul Rohmer]], Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics (b. [[1876]])
* [[MarchOctober 3]] – [[Percy Marmont]], stage & screen actor (b. [[1883]])
* [[MarchOctober 4]] 
** [[Andrés Caicedo]], Colombian writer (b. [[1951]])
** [[Ola Solberg]], Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (b. [[1886]])
** [[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk]], German jurist and senior government official (b. [[1887]])
* [[MarchOctober 5]] – [[Tom Pryce]], British Formula race car driver (b. [[1949]])
* [[MarchOctober 8]] – [[Henry Hull]], American actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[MarchOctober 10]]
** [[E. Power Biggs]], British-born American organist (b. [[1906]])
** [[William G. James]], Australian pianist and composer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Léonce-Henri Burel]],  French cinematographer (b. [[1892]])
* [[MarchOctober 11]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant IV]], American geologist and paleontologist (b. [[1893]])
* [[MarchOctober 14]] 
** [[Black Mike Winage]], Serbian-Canadian miner, pioneer (b. [[1870]])
** [[Mae Carden]], American educator who developed the Carden Method (b. [[1894]])
* [[MarchOctober 15]] – [[Antonino Rocca]], professional wrestler (b. [[1921]])
* [[MarchOctober 16]] – [[Kamal Jumblatt]], leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. [[1917]])
* [[MarchOctober 17]] – [[Claude Roger-Marx]], French writer, and playwright (b. [[1888]])
* [[MarchOctober 18]] – [[Marien Ngouabi]], President of The Republic of the Congo (assassinated) (b. [[1938]])
* [[MarchOctober 19]] – [[William L. Laurence]], Jewish Lithuanian-born American journalist (b. [[1888]])
* [[MarchOctober 22]] – [[A. K. Gopalan]], Indian communist leader (b. [[1904]])
* [[MarchOctober 25]]
** [[Nunnally Johnson]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1897]])
** [[Joe Stydahar]], American football player ([[Chicago Bears]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[MarchOctober 26]] – [[Madeleine Dring]], British composer and actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[MarchOctober 27]] – [[Diana Hyland]], American actress (b. [[1936]])
* [[MarchOctober 28]]
** [[Andries Mac Leod]], Belgian-Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1891]])
** [[Frithiof Nevanlinna]], Finnish mathematician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Marion Clyde McCarroll]], writer and journalist (b. [[1891]])
* [[MarchOctober 29]] 
** [[Charles Nicoletti]], American gangster (b. [[1916]])
** [[Eugen Wüster]], industrialist and terminologist (b. [[1898]])
* [[MarchOctober 30]] – [[Abdel Halim Hafez]], Egyptian singer and actor (b. [[1929]])
* [[MarchOctober 31]] 
** [[Yasuji Kamada]], Japanese photographer (b. [[1883]])
** [[Eric Grant Miles]], served as an officer with the British Army (b. [[1891]])
** [[Jean Bachelet]], French cinematographer (b. [[1894]])

=== April ===
* [[April 2]] – [[He Tianjian]], Chinese painter (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 2]] – [[John Whitaker (gymnast)]], British gymnast (b. [[1886]])
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** [[Ronnie Van Zant]] (b. [[1948]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Boye Schlytter]],  Norwegian businessperson and mountain climber (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Félix Gouin]], French Socialist politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 27]]
** [[James M. Cain]], American writer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Tony Hulman]], American businessman and racetrack owner (b. [[1901]])
** [[Johannes Pedersen (theologian)]], theologian and linguist (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Frederick Hamilton 
MarchOctober]], Australian soldier and adventurer (b. [[1891]])

=== November ===
* [[November 3]] – [[Florence Vidor]], American actress (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 5]]
** [[René Goscinny]], French comic book writer (b. [[1926]])
** [[Guy Lombardo]], Canadian-American bandleader (b. [[1902]])
** [[Alice May Palmer]], New Zealand public servant (b. [[1886]])
(contracted; show full)* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] – [[Bertil Ohlin]], [[James Meade]]

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