Married. William Fisk Harrah, 62, Nevada's second-ranking casino mogul, after Howard Hughes; and Verna Frank, 29, lately a Reno real estate agent; in Middle Fork Lodge, Idaho. A one-man advertisement for another of Nevada's major industries, Harrah has been divorced five times, Frank once.

Died. Pamela Britton, 50, comely golden-haired actress who made a creditable maiden voyage as Frank Sinatra's girl friend in Anchors Aweigh (1945), starred in Broadway's Brigadoon (1947), and later adorned TV screens in Blondie and My Favorite Martian; of cancer; in Arlington Heights, Ill.

Died. Alfred Ezra Mirsky, 73, distinguished biochemist at New York City's Rockefeller University who in the 1940s helped spark the infant field of molecular biology by devising a technique for isolating the genetic material chromatin in the cells of animals; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 77, squat, solemn Soviet marshal dubbed "the Eisenhower of Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals. The day after Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov was made Deputy Defense Minister, then rose to full Minister and member of the Presidium. After a row with Khrushchev, he was drummed back into obscurity, but resurfaced in the mid-1960s and went to his Kremlin-Wall tomb an official hero.

Died. Jean Wahl, 86, lyrical, charmingly disorganized French existentialist philosopher and Sorbonne professor who once flunked a graduate student named Jean-Paul Sartre, later introduced him to Martin Heidegger, and set down his own view of philosophy as "a search for knowledge . . . that is not necessarily reducible to intellectual understanding" in a dense opus entitled The Philosopher's Way; in Paris.

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