1877
Births
January– March
Edmund Landau
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
January 2 – Slava Raškaj , Croatian painter (d. 1906 )
January 3 – Josephine Hull , American actress (d. 1957 )
January 22 – Hjalmar Schacht , German economist, politician and banker (d. 1970 )
January 26 – Kees van Dongen , Dutch-French painter (d. 1968 )
February 4 – Eddie Cochems , father of the forward pass in American football (d. 1953 )
February 7 – G. H. Hardy , British mathematician (d. 1947 )
February 8 – Carl Tanzler , German-born radiology technologist (d. 1952 )
February 12 – Louis Renault , French industrialist, founder of Renault automobile company (d. 1944 )
February 14 – Edmund Landau , German mathematician (d. 1938 )
February 17
February 19 – Gabriele Münter , German painter (d. 1962 )
February 25 – Erich von Hornbostel , Austrian musicologist (d. 1935 )
March 2 – Consuelo Vanderbilt , Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1964 )
March 4 – Garrett Morgan , American inventor (d. 1963 )
March 7 – Thorvald Ellegaard , Danish track cyclist (d. 1954 )
March 10 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio , Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico , 1930–1932 (d. 1963 )
March 12 – Wilhelm Frick , German Nazi Minister of the Interior (d. 1946 )
March 17 – Ville Kiviniemi , Finnish politician (d. 1951 )
March 18 – Edgar Cayce , American psychic (d. 1945 )
April– June
James Montgomery Flagg
April 15 – Georg Kolbe , German sculptor (d. 1947 )
April 17 – Lionel Pape , English actor (d. 1944 )
April 26 – Alliott Verdon Roe , English aviation pioneer (d. 1958 )
April 30 – Alice B. Toklas , American writer (d. 1967 )
May 3 – Karl Abraham , German psychoanalyst (d. 1925 )
May 24 – Samuel W. Bryant , American admiral (d. 1938 )
May 25 – Billy Murray , American singer (d. 1954 )
May 27 – Isadora Duncan , American dancer (d. 1927 )
June 4 – Heinrich Otto Wieland , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957 )
June 7 – Charles Glover Barkla , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944 )
June 11 – Renée Vivien , British poet who wrote in French (d. 1909 )
June 12 – Thomas C. Hart , American admiral, politician (d. 1971 )
June 14 – Jane Bathori , French opera singer (d. 1970 )
June 18 – James Montgomery Flagg , American artist, comics artist and illustrator (d. 1960 )
June 19 – Charles Coburn , American actor (d. 1961 )
July– September
Hermann Hesse
George Hackenschmidt
John Latham
Frederick Soddy
Enrico De Nicola
Edward Ellington
July 2
July 6 – Arnaud Massy , French golfer (d. 1950 )
July 13 – Erik Scavenius , Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1962 )
July 19 – Arthur Fielder , English cricketer (d. 1949 )
July 27 – Ernst von Dohnányi , Hungarian conductor (d. 1960 )
July 31 – Louisa Bolus , South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970 )
August 1 – George Hackenschmidt , Estonian strongman, professional wrestler (d. 1968 )
August 6 – Wallace H. White, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1952 )
August 7 – Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (d. 1949 )
August 16 – Roque Ruaño , Spanish priest, civil engineer (d. 1935 )
August 22 – Ananda Coomaraswamy , Ceylonese Tamil philosopher (d. 1947 )
August 26 – John Latham , Australian politician, judge (d. 1964 )
August 27
August 29 – Dudley Pound , British admiral (d. 1943 )
September 1
September 2 – Frederick Soddy , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956 )
September 6 – Buddy Bolden , American jazz musician (d. 1931 )
September 14 – Leonhard Seppala , Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (d. 1967 )
September 16 – Thomas Alan Goldsborough , American politician, member of the US House of Representatives from 1921 to 1939 and a United States district judge from 1939 to 1951 (d. 1951 )
September 25 – Plutarco Elías Calles , Mexican general and President of Mexico , 1924–1928; known as Jefe Maximo ("Maximum Boss") from 1928 to 1934 (d. 1945 )
September 26
October– December
October 10 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield , British businessman, philanthropist (d. 1963 )
October 15 – Helen Ware , American stage, film actress (d. 1939 )
October 21 – Oswald Avery , Canadian-American physician, medical researcher (d. 1955 )
October 22 – Frederick Twort , English bacteriologist (d. 1950 )
October 29 – Narcisa de Leon , Filipino film producer (d. 1966 )
October 30 – Hugo Celmiņš , 2-time prime minister of Latvia (d. 1941 )
November 1 – Else Ury , German writer, children's book author (d. 1943 )
November 2 – Claire McDowell , American silent film actress (d. 1966 )
November 3 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo , 2-time President of Chile (d. 1960 )
November 9
November 15 – William Hope Hodgson , English author (d. 1918 )
November 17 – Frank Lahm , Brigadier General USAF, airship pilot, early military aviator trained by the Wright brothers (d. 1963 )
November 20 – Herbert Pitman , British mariner; 3rd Officer aboard RMS Titanic (d. 1961 )
November 22
November 24 – Edward C. Kalbfus , American admiral (d. 1954 )
December 3 – Richard Pearse , New Zealand airplane pioneer (d. 1953 )
December 4 – Morris Alexander , South African politician (d. 1946 )
December 16 – Kichisaburō Nomura , Japanese admiral and diplomat (d. 1964 )
December 20 – Thomas Walter Swan , American jurist and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1926 until 1975 (d. 1975 )
December 30 – Edward Ellington , British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air Force (d. 1967 )
Deaths
January– June
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henrietta A. Bingham
J. L. Runeberg
Sophie of Württemberg
January 1 – Karl von Urban , Austrian field marshal (suicide) (b. 1802 )
January 2 – Alexander Bain , Scottish inventor (b. 1811 )
January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt , American entrepreneur (b. 1794 )
January 20 – Dato Maharajalela Lela , Malay nationalist
February 15 – Rayko Zhinzifov , Bulgarian poet and translator (b. 1839 )
February 18 – Henrietta A. Bingham , American editor (b. 1841 )
February 20
February 25 – Jung Bahadur Rana , Nepalese ruler (b. 1817 )
March 1 – Antoni Patek , Polish watchmaker (b. 1811 )
March 24 – Walter Bagehot , British businessman, essayist and journalist (b. 1826 )
March 25 – Caroline Chisholm , Australian humanitarian (b. 1808 )
March 31 – Bully Hayes , American-born Caribbean blackbirder (killed) (b. 1827 or 1829)
April 8 – Bernardino António Gomes , Portuguese physician and naturalist (b. 1806 )
April 14 – Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz , Prussian general (b. 1809 )
April 15 – J. P. C. Emmons , American attorney and politician (b. 1818 )
May 6 – J. L. Runeberg , Finnish national poet (b. 1804 )
May 19 – Charlotta Djurström , Swedish actress and theater manager (b. 1807 )
May 26 – Kido Takayoshi , Japanese statesman (b. 1833 )
June 3
June 17 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott , American historian, pastor and pedagogical writer (b. 1805 )
June 22 – John R. Goldsborough , U.S. Navy commodore (b. 1809 )
July– December
July 16 – Samuel McLean , American congressman (b. 1826 )
July 27 – John Frost , British Chartist leader (b. 1784 )
August 2 – Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz , Prussian field marshal Urdu (b. 1796 )
August 8 – William Lovett , British Chartist leader (b. 1800 )
August 17 – Isaac Aaron , English-born physician, owner of the Australian Medical Journal and secretary of the Australian Medical Association (b. 1804 )
August 29 – Brigham Young , American Mormon leader (b. 1801 )
August 30 – Raphael Semmes , American and Confederate naval officer (b. 1809 )
September 2 – Konstantinos Kanaris , Greek politician (b. 1795 )
September 3 – Adolphe Thiers , French historian, politician (b. 1797 )
September 5 – Crazy Horse , American Oglala Lakota chief (b. 1840 -45)
September 12 – Emily Pepys , English child diarist (b. 1833 )
September 13 – Alexandre Herculano , Portuguese writer and historian (b. 1810 )
September 17 – Henry Fox Talbot , English photographer (b. 1800 )
September 24 – Saigō Takamori , Japanese samurai (b. 1828 )
October 3 – James Roosevelt Bayley , first Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark, New Jersey , and eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814 )
October 10 – Johann Georg Baiter , Swiss philologist, textual critic (b. 1801 )
October 16 – Théodore Barrière , French dramatist (b. 1823 )
October 28 – Julia Kavanagh , Irish novelist (b. 1824 )
October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest , American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1821 )
November 1 – Oliver P. Morton , American politician (b. 1823 )
November 2 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel , Prussian field marshal (b. 1784 )
December 12 – José de Alencar , Brazilian novelist (b. 1829 )
December 17 – Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines , French general (b. 1804 )
December 29 – Angelica Singleton Van Buren , Acting First Lady of the United States (b. 1818 )
December 30 – William Cormick , physician in Qajar Iran of British origin (b. 1822 )
December 31 – Gustave Courbet , French painter (b. 1819 )
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Further reading
1877 Annual Cyclopedia (1878) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1877; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 827 pp
Bellesiles, Michael A. (2010). 1877: America's Year of Living Violently . New York: New Press. ISBN 9781595584410 .
Bruce, Robert V. (1957). 1877: Year of Violence . I.R. Dee. ISBN 9780929587059 . online
Lloyd, John P. "The strike wave of 1877" in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (2009) pp 177-190. online
Piper, Jessica. "The great railroad strike of 1877: A catalyst for the American labor movement." History Teacher 47.1 (2013): 93-110. online