Married. Paul Zindel, 36, former high school chemistry teacher whose play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971; and Bonnie Hildebrand, 30, screenwriter and former public relations officer for the Cleveland Play House, where she and Zindel first met; he for the first time, she for the second; in London.

Married. Neil Simon, 46, habitually successful playwright (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys); and Marsha Mason, 31, screen actress (Blume in Love) and one of eight cast members of The Good Doctor (the latest Simon show); both for a second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Abebe Bikila, 40, supple Ethiopian who became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto collision in 1969.

Died. Sir Alan Cobham, 79, pioneer of commercial aviation in the 1920s and '30s, who originated the probe-and-drogue mid-air refueling system still in use today; in Bournemouth, England. Determined to demonstrate the feasibility of long-distance flying, Cobham and his wife in 1927 successfully completed a 23,000-mile flight around Africa in a 1,400-h.p. "flying boat."

Died. Don Francisco, 82, a dynamic adman whose work for the California Fruit Growers Exchange (now Sunkist Growers) in the 1920s helped peel the ornamental character from the orange and place it on American breakfast tables as a daily necessity; of cancer; in Amagansett, N. Y.

Died. Semyon M. Budenny, 90, Russian war hero celebrated in song and story for his guerrilla cavalry exploits during the Russian civil war of 1918-21; in Moscow. A chunky, instinctive fighter with an elaborate mustache, Budenny was named one of the original Red Army field marshals in 1935 and commanded the ill-fated southern army during World War II. Budenny won the Order of Lenin eight times, most recently in April of this year.

Died. Pablo Casals, 96, master cellist and conductor for eight decades (see MUSIC).

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