MARRIED. Anne M. Gorsuch, 40, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency; and Robert F. Burford, 60, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C. They met in 1977 when both were in the Colorado state legislature.

MARRIED. Kris Kristofferson, 46, gravel-throated singer-songwriter (Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down) and actor (Heaven's Gate, Rollover); and Lisa Meyers, thirtyish, a recent Pepperdine law school graduate; he for the third time, she for the second; in Malibu, Calif.

RECOVERING. Danny Kaye, 70, globe-trotting comic entertainer and good-will ambassador for UNICEF; after two weeks of hospitalization for chest pains and irregular heartbeat led to quadruple coronary-bypass surgery; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Robert Payne, 71, prolific novelist, translator, poet and biographer of men of power; following a stroke; in Hamilton, Bermuda. An English-born naturalized American citizen who worked as a journalist in Spain, a shipwright in Singapore and a professor of English literature in China and Alabama, Payne produced as many as six or seven books a year on subjects ranging from early Christian history to Greta Garbo's films. His best-known works, biographies of such men as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Gandhi, were highly readable but broke little new interpretive or historical ground.

DIED. John Cowles, 84, scion of a newspaper dynasty who left his father's fiefdom in Des Moines to buy a Minneapolis afternoon paper in 1935, eventually swallowed three competitors, then reached out to create a Midwestern journalistic empire while making his Minneapolis morning flagship, the Tribune, into one of the country's most respected newspapers; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis. After he retired in 1968, the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. began a long decline, as a result of which Cowles' son John Jr. was ousted from its leadership four weeks ago.

DIED. Adrian Boult, 93, restrained, unhistrionic conductor who organized and led the BBC Symphony Orchestra, one of England's finest, from 1930 to 1950, then served as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic until 1957; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that is worthwhile, and more than a little of everything English." This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.