Famous People Who Died at Age 77

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Ailes, Roger (at 77 years 3 days on May 18, 2017)

• Tuchman, Barbara (at 77 years 7 days on February 6, 1989)

• Atkins, Chet (died of cancer at 77 years 10 days on June 30, 2001)

• Goodman, Benny (at 77 years 14 days on June 13, 1986)

• Douglass, Frederick (died of a heart attack at 77 years 19 days on February 20, 1895)

• Lord, Jack (died of heart failure at 77 years 22 days on January 21, 1998)

• Beene, Geoffrey (at 77 years 29 days on September 28, 2004)

• Rand, Ayn (at 77 years 32 days on March 6, 1982)

• Parks, Bert (died of lung cancer at 77 years 34 days on February 2, 1992)

• Burbank, Luther (natural causes at 77 years 35 days on April 11, 1926)

• Buchanan, James (died of pneumonia at 77 years 39 days on June 1, 1868)

• Bohr, Niels (at 77 years 42 days on November 18, 1962)

• Verne, Jules (at 77 years 44 days on March 24, 1905)

• Jiang Qing (at 77 years 56 days on May 14, 1991)

• Schulz, Charles (died of colon cancer at 77 years 78 days on February 12, 2000)

• Steiger, Rod (at 77 years 86 days on July 9, 2002)

• Fonda, Henry (died of heart failure at 77 years 88 days on August 12, 1982)

• Leigh, Janet (at 77 years 89 days on October 3, 2004)

• Adams, Louisa (at 77 years 93 days on May 15, 1852)

• Evanti, Lillian (at 77 years 116 days on December 6, 1967)

• David, Jacques-Louis (at 77 years 121 days on December 29, 1825)

• Hoover, J. Edgar (at 77 years 122 days on May 2, 1972)

• Muhammad, Elijah (at 77 years 141 days on February 25, 1975)

• Bush, Prescott (died of lung cancer at 77 years 146 days on October 8, 1972)

• Potter, Beatrix (at 77 years 147 days on December 22, 1943)

• De Mille, Cecil B. (at 77 years 162 days on January 21, 1959)

• Fremont, John C. (died of peritonitis at 77 years 173 days on July 13, 1890)

• Lupino, Ida (at 77 years 180 days on August 3, 1995)

• Kennedy, Edward (Ted) (at 77 years 184 days on August 25, 2009)

• Rodgers, Richard (at 77 years 185 days on December 30, 1979)

• Gillette, King Camp (at 77 years 186 days on July 9, 1932)

• Dr. John (at 77 years 198 days on June 6, 2019)

• Cooper, Gordon (natural causes at 77 years 212 days on October 4, 2004)

• Browning, Robert (at 77 years 219 days on December 12, 1889)

• Bancroft, Edward (at 77 years 242 days on September 8, 1821)

• Grafton, Sue (died of cancer at 77 years 248 days on December 28, 2017)

• Bertolucci, Bernardo (died of cancer at 77 years 255 days on November 26, 2018)

• Ball, Lucille (died of heart failure at 77 years 263 days on April 26, 1989)

• Robeson, Paul (at 77 years 289 days on January 23, 1976)

• Childress, Alice (at 77 years 306 days on August 14, 1994)

• Agnew, Spiro (at 77 years 313 days on September 17, 1996)

• Lloyd, Harold (died of prostate cancer at 77 years 322 days on March 8, 1971)

• Swift, Jonathan (at 77 years 323 days on October 19, 1745)

• Dalton, John (at 77 years 325 days on July 27, 1844)

• Galileo (at 77 years 327 days on January 8, 1642)

• Gein, Ed (died of cancer at 77 years 334 days on July 26, 1984)

• Odetta (at 77 years 337 days on December 2, 2008)

• King Edward VIII (at 77 years 340 days on May 28, 1972)

• Stopes, Marie (at 77 years 352 days on October 2, 1958)

• Jones, Terry (at 77 years 354 days on January 21, 2020)

• Kandinsky, Wassily (at 77 years 363 days on December 13, 1944)

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