Died. Lieut. Colonel Michael BowesLyon, 59, brother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; of a cardio-respiratory disease; in London.

Died. Walter Brookins, 64, earliest of U.S. aviation's surviving Early Birds; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A boyhood neighbor of Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton. Ohio, he became their first pupil, soloed after 2 1/2 hours' instruction, taught scores of American pilots to fly, including the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Retiring in 1919, he began manufacturing aircraft parts, helped in the development of World War II's 6-24 Liberator bomber.

Died. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 75, author of the New Deal's Wagner act, lifelong Democratic champion of labor; in New York City. A German immigrant boy, he struggled up from the slums of Manhattan's Yorkville (his father was a tenement janitor) to work his way through City College and New York Law School. As a Tammany candidate, he entered the state assembly in 1905, became a firm friend of Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, later served as state senator and state supreme court justice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1926, he became a powerful figure in his second term, was in the lawmaking forefront of F.D.R.'s "100 days," was thereafter a leader in getting on the books such laws as the Railway Pension Act (1934), Social Security Act (1935), low-rent housing and antilynching laws. Aging and in ill health in 1949, Bob Wagner retired from the Senate with these words: "I have had my fair share of shining hours . . ."

Died. Everett Shinn, 76, last of the original "Ashcan School" of American painters; in New York. At the turn of the century, he joined the revolt against the namby-pamby art of the period, became famous for his Harper's Weekly illustrations and his Toulouse-Lautrec-like vignettes of Fifth Avenue society and Bowery squalor.

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