Milestones: Aug. 17, 1981

MARRIED. Jaclyn Smith, 35, TV actress (Charlie's Angels, The Users); and Tony Richmond, 39, British-born cinematographer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Los Angeles. The couple met in Arizona while both were working on the 1980 television film Nightkill.

DIED. John Passmore Widgery, 70, Britain's Lord Chief Justice from 1971 until his retirement last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman Catholics during a...

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