| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
|---|
| Niceto Alcalá-Zamora | Government | 6-Jul-1877 | 18-Feb-1949 | 1st President of the Second Spanish Republic | 
| Katharine Anthony | Author | 27-Nov-1877 | 20-Nov-1965 | Biographer, The Lambs | 
| Francis W. Aston | Chemist | 1-Sep-1877 | 20-Nov-1945 | Invented the mass spectograph | 
| Warren R. Austin | Politician | 12-Nov-1877 | 25-Dec-1962 | US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46 | 
| Oswald Avery | Biologist | 21-Oct-1877 | 20-Feb-1955 | Antibodies and DNA | 
| Charles Glover Barkla | Physicist | 7-Jun-1877 | 23-Oct-1944 | X-ray scattering | 
| Alben W. Barkley | Politician | 24-Nov-1877 | 30-Apr-1956 | US Vice President, 1949-53 | 
| William Beebe | Scientist | 29-Jul-1877 | 4-Jun-1962 | Ocean explorer | 
| Theodore Bilbo | Government | 13-Oct-1877 | 21-Aug-1947 | Archangel of white supremacy | 
| Artur Bodanzky | Conductor | 16-Dec-1877 | 23-Nov-1939 | Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39 | 
| Buddy Bolden | Jazz Musician | 6-Sep-1877 | 4-Nov-1931 | Ragtime, pre-Jazz cornetist | 
| Plutarco Elías Calles | Head of State | 25-Sep-1877 | 19-Oct-1945 | President of Mexico, 1924-28 | 
| Edgar Cayce | Paranormal | 18-Mar-1877 | 3-Jan-1945 | Performed "paranormal" readings | 
| Charles Coburn | Actor | 17-Jun-1877 | 30-Aug-1961 | The More the Merrier | 
| Henry Sloane Coffin | Religion | 5-Jan-1877 | 25-Nov-1954 | Meaning of the Cross | 
| Frederick G. Cottrell | Inventor | 10-Jan-1877 | 16-Nov-1948 | Smokestack filters to fight pollution | 
| Arthur G. Crane | Educator | 1-Sep-1877 | 11-Aug-1955 | President, University of Wyoming, 1922-41 | 
| Ernst von Dohnányi | Composer | 27-Jul-1877 | 9-Feb-1960 | Opus 25 | 
| Raoul Dufy | Painter | 3-Jun-1877 | 23-Mar-1953 | French Fauvist painter | 
| Isadora Duncan | Dancer | 26-May-1877 | 14-Sep-1927 | Mother of modern dance | 
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Government | 11-Sep-1877 | 20-Jul-1926 | The Black Pope of Bolshevism | 
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Author | 17-Feb-1877 | 21-Oct-1904 | Transvestite Muslim author | 
| James Montgomery Flagg | Painter | 18-Jun-1877 | 27-May-1960 | I Want YOU for U.S. Army | 
| Wilhelm Frick | Government | 12-Mar-1877 | 16-Oct-1946 | Authored the Nuremberg Laws | 
| Frederick Griffith | Biologist | c. 1877 | 16-Apr-1941 | Discovered the transforming principle | 
| G. I. Gurdjieff | Philosopher | 1877 | 29-Oct-1949 | Esoteric philosopher, The Fourth Way | 
| G. H. Hardy | Mathematician | 7-Feb-1877 | 1-Dec-1947 | A Mathematician's Apology | 
| Carl T. Hayden | Politician | 2-Oct-1877 | 25-Jan-1972 | US Senator from Arizona, 1927-69 | 
| Hermann Hesse | Author | 2-Jul-1877 | 9-Aug-1962 | Siddhartha | 
| Halliwell Hobbes | Actor | 16-Nov-1877 | 20-Feb-1962 | British-American character actor | 
| Rufus C. Holman | Politician | 14-Oct-1877 | 27-Nov-1959 | US Senator from Oregon, 1939-45 | 
| Arthur M. Hyde | Politician | 12-Jul-1877 | 17-Oct-1947 | Governor of Missouri, 1921-25 | 
| James H. Jeans | Astronomer | 11-Sep-1877 | 16-Sep-1946 | Continuous creation theory | 
| Richard Kirman, Sr. | Politician | 14-Jan-1877 | 19-Jan-1959 | Governor of Nevada, 1935-39 | 
| Montagu Love | Actor | 15-Mar-1877 | 17-May-1943 | British character actor | 
| John Albert Macy | Critic | 10-Apr-1877 | 26-Aug-1932 | Socialism in America | 
| Richard Mayr | Singer | 18-Nov-1877 | 1-Dec-1935 | Operatic bass | 
| Annie Moore | unspecified | 1-Jan-1877 | 1924 | First arrival at Ellis Island | 
| Francis P. Murphy | Politician | 16-Aug-1877 | 19-Dec-1958 | Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41 | 
| Billy Murray | Singer | 25-May-1877 | 17-Aug-1954 | Top recording star of the early 1900's | 
| Ragnvald A. Nestos | Politician | 12-Apr-1877 | 15-Jul-1942 | Governor of North Dakota, 1921-25 | 
| J. J. Newberry | Business | 26-Sep-1877 | 6-Mar-1954 | Five-and-dime store magnate | 
| William H. Regnery | Business | 12-Oct-1877 | c. 1954 | America First Committee | 
| Louis Renault | Engineer | 15-Feb-1877 | 24-Oct-1944 | Founder of Renault | 
| Oscar Riddle | Biologist | 27-Sep-1877 | 29-Nov-1968 | Prolactin | 
| Charles Stewart Rolls | Business | 27-Aug-1877 | 12-Jul-1910 | Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce | 
| Henry Norris Russell | Astronomer | 25-Oct-1877 | 18-Feb-1957 | Giant stars and dwarfs | 
| Hjalmar Schacht | Government | 22-Jan-1877 | 3-Jun-1970 | Reich Minister of Economics | 
| Béla Schick | Doctor | 16-Jul-1877 | 6-Dec-1967 | Schick test for diphtheria | 
| Jacob Schick | Inventor | 16-Sep-1877 | 3-Jul-1937 | Electric razor | 
| Frederick Soddy | Chemist | 2-Sep-1877 | 22-Sep-1956 | Isotopes | 
| Lewis Terman | Psychologist | 15-Jan-1877 | 21-Dec-1956 | Intelligence tests | 
| Alice B. Toklas | Relative | 30-Apr-1877 | 7-Mar-1967 | Gertrude Stein's lover | 
| Carl von Cosel | Criminal | 8-Feb-1877 | 23-Jul-1952 | Florida's favorite necrophile | 
| James W. Wadsworth, Jr. | Politician | 12-Aug-1877 | 21-Jun-1952 | US Senator from New York, 1915-27 | 
| Robert F. Wagner, Sr. | Politician | 8-Jun-1877 | 4-May-1953 | US Senator from New York, 1927-49 | 
| Clifford M. Walker | Politician | 4-Jul-1877 | 9-Nov-1954 | Governor of Georgia, 1923-27 | 
| Helen Ware | Actor | 15-Oct-1877 | 25-Jan-1939 | Theater actress | 
| Wallace H. White, Jr. | Politician | 6-Aug-1877 | 31-Mar-1952 | US Senator from Maine, 1931-49 | 
| Heinrich Wieland | Chemist | 4-Jun-1877 | 5-Aug-1957 | Studied acids of bile |