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Events from the year 1877 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Events Undated Births - 7 February G. H. Hardy, mathematician (died 1947)
- 7 June Charles Glover Barkla, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
- 19 July Arthur Fielder, cricketer (died 1949)
- 1 August Charlotte Hughes, longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom (died 1993)
- 27 August Charles Rolls, motorist and aeronaut, co-founder of Rolls-Royce (died 1910)
- 1 September Francis William Aston, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
- 2 September Frederick Soddy, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
- 4 October Razor Smith, cricketer (died 1946)
- 10 October William Morris, founder of Morris Motors LImited and philanthropist (died 1963)
- 27 October George Thompson, cricketer (died 1943)
- 15 November William Hope Hodgson, author (died 1918)
- 25 November Harley Granville-Barker, actor, playwright and critic (died 1946)
Deaths - 2 January Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1811)
- 24 March Walter Bagehot, businessman, essayist and journalist (born 1826)
- 25 March Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian (born 1808)
- 15 June Caroline Norton, campaigner for married women's rights (born 1808)
- 14 July Richard Davies, Welsh poet (born 1833)
- 27 July John Frost, Chartist leader (born 1784)
- 8 August William Lovett, Chartist leader (born 1800)
- 17 September William Fox Talbot, photographer (born 1800)
- 7 November Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer (born 1804)
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