Milestones: Apr. 16, 1984

DIVORCED. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 64, Canada's retiring (in June) Prime Minister; and Margaret Trudeau, 35, former jet-setter; after a 13-year marriage (they separated in 1977), three children; in Toronto.

DIED. Elmo Patrick Sonnier, 35, convicted along with his brother of killing a teenage couple in 1977; by electrocution, witnessed by the victims' fathers; in Angola, La. Six hours later in Starke, Fla., Arthur F. Goode III, 30, condemned for the 1976 homosexual murder of a nine-year-old boy, also died in the electric chair. It was the first two-execution day since restoration of the death penalty in 1976.

DIED. Marvin Gaye, 44, sensual, mellow-voiced...

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