MILESTONES

DIVORCING. DAN JANSEN, 31, plucky 1994 Olympic gold speed skater, and wife ROBIN; in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

PLEADED GUILTY. EARL PITTS, 43, ex-FBI agent; to conspiring and attempting to sell secrets to Moscow; in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the second FBI man ever accused of spying.

CONVICTED. JAMES BURMEISTER, 21, ex-Army paratrooper; of murder, for the hate killing of a black couple; in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

CONVICTED. JOHN DU PONT, 58, family heir; of murder; in Media, Pennsylvania. He was found to be mentally ill when he killed a wrestler on his estate.

DIED. TONY WILLIAMS, 51, splashy, polyrhythmic jazz drummer; of a heart attack; in Daly City, California. Tapped by Miles Davis to join his legendary quintet in 1963, Williams was a master at blending jazz with styles from blues to classical. His 1969 band, Lifetime, pioneered jazz-rock fusion.

DIED. ALBERT SHANKER, 68, tough but deft leader of the American Federation of Teachers; of cancer; in New York City. A respected champion of high education standards, he was demonized in 1968 for leading a long, bitter strike against a New York City decentralization plan that cut teachers' rights.

DIED. DAVID DOYLE, 70-ish, who played John Bosley, assistant to the invisible boss of the heroines of Charlie's Angels, through the show's entire 1976-81 run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

DIED. ROBERT SARNOFF, 78, second-generation chief of RCA; in New York City. In the 1950s and '60s, Sarnoff preened the company's NBC subsidiary into the peacock network, introducing color and expanding news. When the conglomerate he built suffered from sprawl, G.E. snatched it up.

DIED. NUCCIO BERTONE, 82, Italian car designer whose exotic models for Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Lamborghini seduced auto aficionados; in Turin.