MARRIED. Randolph A. Hearst, 66, chairman of the Hearst Corp. and president of the San Francisco Examiner, who divorced Patty's mother in 1979; and Maria Scruggs, 49, widow of a California real estate developer; both for the second time; in Hillsborough, Calif.

DIED. Lester Bangs, 33, influential, hard-living rock critic whose reviews for Rolling Stone and Creem magazines and the Village Voice reflected and refracted the raw vitality of latter-day rock 'n' roll; of unknown causes; in New York City.

DIED. Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, Algeria's astute Foreign Minister and a key negotiatior in the release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran; in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances while on a peace-seeking mission to end the Iraq-Iran war (see WORLD); near the Iran-Turkey border. The ascetic-looking Benyahia was a guerrilla fighter and a founding father of the Algerian revolution of 1954-62. In 1979 he became Foreign Minister and played a decisive role in the postwar reconciliation between his country and France. After mediating the hostage crisis, he formally handed over the Americans to State Department officials.

DIED. Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, 60, former "Glamour Girl No. 1" of New York cafe society; of cancer; in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. An heiress at twelve and debutante of the year at 17, Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the '40s as her dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said, "was despair."

DIED. Helmut Dantine, 64, Austrian-born actor whose greatest fame in a 40-year career came in vintage World War II movies (Mrs. Miniver, Casablanca, Edge of Darkness), playing Nazis of all shades from quasi sympathetic to ultrasadistic; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

DIED. William Primrose, 77, world's foremost viola virtuoso whose sweet, pure tone and musicianship raised the viola to the rank of the violin and cello as a solo instrument; in Provo, Utah. The Glasgow-born Primrose was a violin prodigy before he switched to the larger viola, with which he felt "a sense of oneness that I never felt when playing the violin." A world-touring solo recitalist, he settled in the U.S. in 1937 and became first viola of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. Later known for his performances of chamber music, he also worked with contemporary composers, commissioning and playing the first performance of the Bartok Viola Concerto.

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