Editing 1977 (section)

=== January ===
[[File:Anthony Eden (retouched).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anthony Eden]]]]
[[File:Peter Finch 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter Finch]]]]
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* [[January 2]] – [[Erroll Garner]], American musician (b. [[1921]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Ibrahim Biçakçiu]], Albanian politician, 2-time [[Prime Minister of Albania]] leader of [[World War II]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Artur Adson]], Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vabar |first=Sven |title=Artur Adson |url=https://sisu-vana.ut.ee/ewod/a/adson |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=sisu-vana.ut.ee |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 14]]
** [[Anthony Eden]], British politician, 62nd [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Peter Finch]], English-born actor (b. [[1916]])
** [[Anaïs Nin]], French-born American diarist and writer (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Anaïs Nin |title=Conversations with Anaïs Nin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kbo8A9CASVUC&pg=PR18 |year=1994 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-0-87805-719-1 |pages=18}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – [[Gary Gilmore]], American murderer (b. [[1940]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Džemal Bijedić]], Yugoslavian politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia|prime minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1917]])
** [[Carl Zuckmayer]], German writer and playwright  (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Ian Herbert |title=Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZ2J8cPyTvAC |year=1981 |publisher=Gale Research Company |isbn=978-0-8103-0235-8 |page=749}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Yvonne Printemps]], French singer and actress (b. [[1894]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Dimitrios Kiousopoulos]], [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Pascual Pérez (boxer)|Pascual Pérez]], Argentine world Flyweight boxing champion (b. [[1926]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Dietrich von Hildebrand]], German philosopher and theologian (b. [[1889]])
* [[January 28]]
**[[Burt Mustin]], American actor (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://digitalwolfgram.widener.edu/digital/collection/p270801coll17/id/324/ |title=Burton Hill Mustin, 1903 |website=digitalwolfgram.widener.edu |access-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013213905/https://digitalwolfgram.widener.edu/digital/collection/p270801coll17/id/324/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
**[[Talib Haji Hamzah]], Malaysian armed robber executed in Singapore (b. [[1953]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Freddie Prinze]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1954]])