DIED. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 41, blind jazz musician famed for his ability to play three instruments simultaneously; of as yet undetermined causes; in Bloomington, Ind. Kirk played the manzello (a quasi-saxophone), the stritch (a horn resembling a dented blunderbuss) and the tenor sax together, combining themes of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, Atonalist Arnold Schonberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus.

DIED. Andre Eglevsky, 59, Russian emigre ballet dancer who started out with the Colonel de Basil Ballet Russe at age 14, was much in demand in the U.S. in the '40s and '50s as a leading dancer and, after that, as a coach who worked with such performers as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones; of a heart attack; in Elmira, N.Y., where his touring company was performing The Nutcracker.

DIED. Laurence Neal Woodworth, 59, genial Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who had been drafting President Carter's long-awaited tax-reform package; after suffering a stroke; in Newport News, Va. Woodworth served as a staff adviser to the tax-writing committees of Congress for more than 30 years, drafting some 1,000 tax bills.

DIED. Peter Carl Goldmark, 71, Hungarian-born electronic whiz and inventor of the 33% r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development is quite useless."

DIED. David K.E. Bruce, 79, paradigm of the American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career--farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe, he scored a kind of diplomatic grand slam by heading embassies in Bonn (under Dwight Eisenhower) and London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris, and later the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Said West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, upon Bruce's departure from Bonn: "If you Americans can't stand Bruce back here again, at least send somebody just like him."

DEATH REVEALED. Shane O'Neill, 57, son of Playwright Eugene O'Neill and brother of Oona O'Neill Chaplin, who like his sister was disinherited--she because of her marriage to Charlie Chaplin, a man more than twice her age, he because of what his father described as the "purposelessness" of his life, which included bouts with alcoholism and two narcotics arrests; in a leap from a fourth-floor window on June 22; in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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