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Died. Cavendish W. Cannon. 67. retired career diplomat and hardheaded troubleshooter, for 38 years a specialist on the Balkans and Middle East, whose most sensitive post was as Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1947-49) during Tito's split with Moscow, a firm believer in a foreign service that spends more time in the field and less in theoretical studies; of a heart attack; in Moron, Spain.
Died. Emmet "Red" Ormsby, 67, American League umpire for 19 years, who liked to tell the story of the day when he was rescued from rioting fans, turned to thank the cops and was informed, "It's our duty to assist the blind"; of a heart attack; in Chicago.
Died. Susan Dorothy Doughty. 68, genteel British sculptress and creator of the "Doughty Bird," life-sized ceramic figurines treasured among art and porcelain collectors (from $900 for a pair of scarlet tanagers, on into the thousands for older, rarer models); of injuries received in a fall; in Cornwall, England.
Died. Pastor Arne Fjellbu. 71. Iowa-born retired Lutheran Bishop of Trondheim, Norway, who, as iron-willed dean of Trondheim Cathedral during World War II. led the church's resistance against the Nazis' puppet government; of a stroke; in Trondheim.
Died. Sylvia Beach, 75, pert, perky litterateuse, proprietress of Paris' famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publisher, in 1922, of James Joyce's epic Ulysses after it was rejected as obscene in English-speaking countries; of a heart attack; in her third-floor flat in Paris. Opening her Left Bank emporium in 1921, the Baltimore-born spinster turned it into a haunt for such literary lights and lights-to-be as Pound. Cummings. Dos Passes. Hemingway. Anderson. Fitzgerald. Gide, Romains. Always closest to her heart was Joyce. "What anyone had to say interested him," she wrote in her memoirs two years ago. "He told me he had never met a bore." In 1941, after the Germans moved into Paris, Shakespeare and Company closed its doors. Sylvia Beach never reopened, saying: "I don't think you should ever attempt to do anything twice."