Engaged. Jehan Sadat, 14, youngest of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's three daughters; and Mahmoud Osman, 25, son of Osman Ahmed Osman, Egypt's Minister of Reconstruction and Housing. The couple will be married in a little more than a year, when Jehan reaches 16, legal age for marriage.

Separated. David L. Boren, 34, Governor of Oklahoma, and Janna Boren, 30, who filed for a divorce (incompatibility), which may be finalized next month. Married for seven years, the Borens have two children.

Died. Phillips H. Lord, 73, writer, producer and sometime actor who created Seth Parker's Singing School, Gang Busters, and other celebrated radio shows of the 1930s and '40s; of myasthenia gravis; in Ellsworth, Me. Drawing on yarns about simple folk and moral rectitude that he heard from his grandfather, a voluble old sea captain, Lord fashioned Seth Parker out of pure homespun, introduced him in 1927, soon had an audience of 10 million. For the later, long-running (nine years) Gang Busters, he got permission from J. Edgar Hoover to use stories based on FBI files.

Died. Hugo Zacchini, 77, a circus performer who, while musing about the trajectory of the grenades he had to duck as an Italian artilleryman during World War I, conceived his famous human cannonball act; of a stroke; in San Bernardino, Calif. Using a compressed-air cannon, Zacchini made his maiden flight (some 130 ft.) in Cairo in 1922. In 1929, John Ringling lured him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for another 32 years.

Died. Clairmont L. Egtvedt, 83, former president and board chairman of the Boeing Co.; of pneumonia; in Seattle. Starting as a draftsman in the company's two-story frame factory in 1917, the shy, University of Washington-trained engineer became Boeing's president in 1933 and served as chairman from 1939 until 1966. Determined to create a "superweapon of the air," he spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on Europe alone. Its sister ship, the larger, more powerful B29, which entered the war in 1944, delivered 96% of all the bombs dropped on Japan.

Died. Arnold Toynbee, 86, British historian whose twelve-volume masterwork, A Study of History, charts the rise and fall of man's civilizations; in York, England (see EDUCATION).

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