Milestones

Named. Ghazi Al-Yawar, 45, U.S.-educated Sunni tribal leader and former exile; as the new president--a largely ceremonial job--of the interim Iraqi government that will take over on June 30; in Baghdad.

Married. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, in a surprise ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to People magazine. The nuptials are the actress-singer's third and the hunk-singer's second. His divorce had become final only six days before.

Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish.

Died. Frances Shand Kydd, 68, who had an often turbulent relationship with her daughter Princess Diana; after a long illness; on Seil Island, Scotland. Herself the daughter of a baron and the Queen's lady-in-waiting, she had three girls and a boy during a 15-year marriage to Edward John Spencer. When the couple divorced in 1969, the future princess, then 8, stayed with her father, and later described her childhood as "very unhappy and unstable."

Died. Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost a half-century of opera stardom; of heart failure; in Modena, Italy. He debuted at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1965 as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust and went on to such signature roles as King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo and the title role in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov.

Died. William Manchester, 82, scrupulous author of thrilling narratives on military and political power, best known for The Death of a President, his 1967 book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy; in Middletown, Conn. Jacqueline Kennedy tried to suppress the book's publication because of the inclusion of some intimate family details but relented when Manchester removed some passages. His works also included acclaimed biographies of General Douglas MacArthur and a projected three volumes on Winston Churchill, only two of which he managed to complete before his death.

Died. Archibald Cox, 92, special prosecutor whose insistence that Richard Nixon hand over tapes of Oval Office conversations for the Watergate investigation got him fired in the Saturday Night Massacre in 1973; in Brooksville, Maine. A Harvard professor and former adviser to President Kennedy, he lasted five months as chief of the investigation, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation.

Died. Alberta Martin, 97, the last living widow of a Confederate soldier; in Enterprise, Ala. In 1927 she married William Jasper Martin, then 81, a widower with a $50 monthly pension and a hot temper. After he died in 1931, she married his grandson.

By Melissa August, Elizabeth L. Bland, Carolina A. Miranda and Jyoti Thottam