Editing 1977 (section)

===August===
[[File:Elvis Presley promoting Jailhouse Rock.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Elvis Presley]]]]
[[File:Groucho Marx - portrait.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Groucho Marx]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Francis Gary Powers]], American [[Lockheed U-2|U-2 spy plane]] pilot (b. [[1929]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira]], Portuguese [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 3]]
** [[Alfred Lunt]], American actor (b. [[1892]])
** [[Makarios III]], Greek-Cypriot archbishop, 1st [[president of Cyprus]] (b. [[1913]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cyprus-mail.com/2015/08/03/anniversary-of-makarios-death/ |title=Anniversary of Makarios' death |date=August 3, 2015 |website=Cyprus Mail |author=Andria Kades |access-date=September 13, 2021}}</ref>
* [[August 4]] 
** [[Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian]], English physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1889]])
** [[Ernst Bloch]], German Marxist philosopher (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical, and Critical Dictionary |publisher=Gale Research Company |year=1983 |page=70}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] – [[Alexander Bustamante|Sir Alexander Bustamente]], Jamaican politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Jamaica|prime minister of Jamaica]] (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/08/07/sir-alexander-bustamante-94-jamaican-leader-dies/2f8af0b7-ec0b-4b3b-a957-264fb580f280/ |title=Sir Alexander Bustamante, 94, Jamaican Leader, Dies |last=Weil |first=Martin |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=7 August 1977 |access-date=1 September 2020}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] – [[Son Ngoc Thanh]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Cambodia|prime minister of Cambodia]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Beryl May Dent]], English mathematical physicist (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2003 |title=Beryl Dent at the University of Bristol Department of Physics |publisher=[[University of Bristol]] Physics Library |id=DM1961/2 |type=Document |location=Bristol |language=en |url=https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961%2f2&pos=1 |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020133627/https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961/2&pos=1 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] – [[Henry Williamson]], English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Anne Williamson |title=Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ9bAAAAMAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=Alan Sutton |isbn=978-0-7509-0639-5 |page=333}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – [[Alexander Luria]], Russian neuropsychologist (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-R-Luria|title=A.R. Luria &#124; Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology & Neuroscience &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] – [[Elvis Presley]], American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b. [[1935]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Guralnick, Peter |year=1999 |title=Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley |publisher=Back Bay Books |isbn=978-0-316-33297-2 |ref={{sfnRef|Guralnick|1999}}
|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780316332972|pages=645–648}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – [[Delmer Daves]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Groucho Marx]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Groucho Marx, Comedian, Dead. Movie Star and TV Host Was 86. Master of the Insult. Groucho Marx, Film Comedian and Host of 'You Bet Your Life,' Dies |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D03E4DD103DE532A25753C2A96E9C946690D6CF |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 20, 2007 |page=1}}</ref> 
* [[August 23]]
** [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]], English actor (b. [[1918]])
** [[Naum Gabo]], Russian sculptor (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Jean Hagen]], American actress (b. [[1923]])