Died. Manfred B. Lee, 66, co-creator of Ellery Queen, the genius of deductive detection; of a heart attack; in Roxbury, Conn. In collaboration with his cousin Frederic Dannay, Lee wrote seven books of short stories and 35 novels about Queen, the solemn first-person protagonist. The pseudonym was eventually carried over to a monthly detective-story magazine, a long-lived radio program and a television series. All told, including short-story anthologies, Ellery Queen enjoyed book sales of 125 million. Keeping their writing methods a Queenlike mystery, Lee and Dannay developed such rapport that they were able to confound and amuse interviewers by completing each other's sentences.

Died. Lewis Gruber, 75, tobacco executive; in Manhattan. A crack salesman who smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day, Gruber joined the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co. in 1924, became president in 1956. His campaign promoting the Micronite filter helped propel Kent domestic sales from 3.4 billion to 36 billion in two years. Puffing at doctors' warnings, Lorillard advertising claimed "We're Tobacco Men, Not Medicine Men," prescribed Old Gold cigarettes (another company product) "For a Treat Instead of a Treatment."

Died. Paul Scott Mowrer, 83, journalist and author; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Sent to Paris by the Chicago Daily News in 1910, Mowrer belonged to the new generation of adventurous but analytical World War I foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine years.

Died. Gertrude Kappel, 86, opera star of the 1920s and '30s; in Munich. A specialist in supersoprano parts by Wagner and Strauss, Kappel was admired both for her beautiful voice and her ability to dig deeply into the psychology of opera's more peculiar characters. She sang Elektra in the Metropolitan's first production of the Strauss opera in 1932, upsetting some critics by her classical vocalism in this frenzied role, sending others into raves even for her vivid dancing. Among her admirers was Richard Strauss himself, who at the time preferred her Elektra to all others.

Died. Igor Stravinsky, 88, musical colossus of the 20th century (see Music).

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