MARRIED. Joseph Alioto, 62, multimillionaire businessman and former mayor of San Francisco; and Kathleen Sullivan, 33, moderate voice as president of Boston's school committee who is expected to run for mayor in 1979; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan. Alioto divorced Angelina, his wife of 35 years, last August.

DIED. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 53, black South African leader whose determined advocacy of black rights kept him in prison or under government restriction for the past 18 years; of lung cancer; in Kimberley, South Africa. A follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a believer in nonviolent civil disobedience, Sobukwe founded the Pan-African Congress as a splinter group from the African National Congress in 1959. Following his participation in 1960 demonstrations against the restrictive pass laws that control the lives of South African blacks, Sobukwe was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed a law empowering the government to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, and Sobukwe spent the next six years in another prison, using the time to earn an economics degree. Finally released in 1969, he was restricted to a small black township in Kimberley. He was denied permission to emigrate, but three of his four children moved to the U.S. to live with their father's friend, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young.

DIED. Paul Scott, 57, British novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, a brooding, four-volume portrait of the decline and fall of British rule in India; of cancer; in London. After an abortive career as an accountant and literary agent, Scott began to write poetry and fiction based on his experiences as a soldier in India during World War II. His interlocking 2,000-page masterpiece is a blending of private and public histories that evokes a doomed world of racism and heroics.

DIED. Edward Griffith Begle, 63, mathematics professor at Yale and Stanford who was a chief proponent of the "new math"; of emphysema; in Palo Alto, Calif. As head of the School Mathematics Study Group, an organization with nearly $10 million in Government grants, Begle emphasized the theoretical principles of the number system in addition to rote calculation learned in traditional math.

DIED. Wesley Bolin, 68, a first-term Arizona Governor who had served as secretary of state for 29 years; of a heart attack; in Phoenix. A conservative Democrat, Bolin established a bipartisan administration by appointing Republicans to office. He will be replaced by state Attorney General Bruce Babbitt, who has mounted a tough law-enforcement campaign against Arizona gangsters.

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