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Famous People Born in 1877
Born in 1877? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
Turning 149 in 2026 · Chinese zodiac: Year of the Ox
The 1870s
The most famous people born in 187720
1877–1962Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss novelist of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Photo: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
1877–1938Muhammad Iqbal
Poet and philosopher writing in Urdu and Persian whose 1930 call for a Muslim homeland made him the spiritual father of Pakistan
Photo: Amrita Sher-Gil · Public domain
1877–1927Isadora Duncan
American dancer who pioneered modern dance with free, barefoot movement and died when her scarf caught in a car wheel
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1877–1956Frederick Soddy
Nobel Prize-winning chemist who proved the existence of isotopes
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1877–1947G.H. Hardy
British mathematician known for his work in number theory
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1877–1944Charles Glover Barkla
British Nobel Prize-winning physicist who studied X-rays
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) · Public domain
1877–1926Felix Dzerzhinsky
Revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police force
Photo: M.S. Nappelbaum · Public domain
1877–1945Francis William Aston
Nobel Prize-winning physicist who identified isotopes using mass spectrometry
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
Born in 1877, month by month
- January
- Josephine Hull (January 3) · Oscar-winning actress of stage and screen
- Hjalmar Schacht (January 22) · German economist and banker who served as President of the Reichsbank
- Kees van Dongen (January 26) · Dutch-French painter and leading figure of the Fauve movement
- February
- G.H. Hardy (February 7) · British mathematician known for his work in number theory
- March
- Wilhelm Frick (March 12) · Nazi politician who served as Minister of the Interior
- May
- Isadora Duncan (May 26) · American dancer who pioneered modern dance with free, barefoot movement and died when her scarf caught in a car wheel
- June
- Heinrich Otto Wieland (June 4) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for his research into bile acids
- Charles Glover Barkla (June 7) · British Nobel Prize-winning physicist who studied X-rays
- July
- Hermann Hesse (July 2) · German-Swiss novelist of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- August
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (August 30) · Revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police force
- September
- Francis William Aston (September 1) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who identified isotopes using mass spectrometry
- Frederick Soddy (September 2) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who proved the existence of isotopes
- Kārlis Ulmanis (September 4) · Prime Minister and later dictatorial President of pre-war Latvia
- James Hopwood Jeans (September 11) · British physicist and astronomer who popularised complex scientific concepts
- October
- Henry Norris Russell (October 25) · American astronomer who co-developed a major star classification system
- November
- Muhammad Iqbal (November 9) · Poet and philosopher writing in Urdu and Persian whose 1930 call for a Muslim homeland made him the spiritual father of Pakistan
- Enrico de Nicola (November 9) · First president of the Italian Republic following the Second World War
- Endre Ady (November 22) · Pioneering Hungarian poet and journalist of the early twentieth century
- Alben W. Barkley (November 24) · Vice President of the United States under Harry S. Truman
- December
- Viktor Dyk (December 31) · Prominent Czech nationalist poet, playwright and politician