DIVORCED. Peter OToole, 47, Irish actor who played the title roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Goodbye, Mr. Chips; and Sian Phillips, 46, Welsh actress who starred in television's I, Claudius; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in London.

DIED. Vivian Vance, 66, actress-comedian known to millions of TV viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was in semiretirement when recruited by Ball and Desi Arnaz to play Ethel--the role she played from 1951 to 1956. "After a while," she said, "you're not sure who you are--Ethel Mertz or Vivian Vance." When cast as Lucy's sidekick on the 1960s The Lucy Show, Vance insisted that her character be called Vivian.

DIED. Bertil Ohlin, 80, Swedish politician and economist who shared, with England's James E. Meade, the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics; in northern Sweden. At 25, the handsome, precocious Ohlin was a full professor at the University of Copenhagen and an expert in international trade. A practitioner as well as a theorist, Ohlin was Sweden's Trade Minister in a wartime coalition government (1944-45). Chief of the Liberal Party from 1944 to 1967, he waged a lifelong battle to check the growth of socialization in Sweden.

DIED. Frank Peavey Heffelfinger, 81, former chairman of Peavey Co., a century-old Minneapolis grain firm; in Minneapolis. He spent his career in the family business but took time out to serve as regional director of the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt and as finance chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Republican National Committee.

DIED. John Diefenbaker, 83, "Mr. Conservative," the flamboyant prairie lawyer who was Canada's Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 and one of its most outspoken Members of Parliament for almost four decades; in Ottawa. Reared in the northlands of Saskatchewan, Diefenbaker won fame as a crack trial lawyer, before winning a long sought seat in the House of Commons in 1940. As Prime Minister he urged increased independence from the U.S., to be accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade with China and ties to Cuba. Criticized for running a one-man show, "Dief the Chief was eventually defeated by Liberal Lester Pearson, partly because he refused to arm Canada's NATO force with U.S. atomic weapons. Elected to Commons for a record 13th time last May, he appeared on TV five days before his death, decrying the divisions in his country: "Suspicion, fear, all those things that deny unity are present."

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