Married. John Jacob Astor III, 42, whose fortune, inherited from his great-great-grandfather, is estimated at $70 million; and Dolores Margaret ("Dolly") Fullman, 26, blonde Miami divorcee; he for the third time, she for the second; in Arlington, Va.

Married. Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 57, Republican governor of California; and Mrs. Virginia Carlson, 35; both for the second time; in Los Angeles.

Died. Emilie Dionne, 20, once the gay est and most active of Canada's famed quintuplets, in later years the quietest and shyest; following a series of epileptic seizures; in Ste. Agathe, Que. (see THE HEMISPHERE).

Died. Albert Bailey ("Ab") Walker, 44, indicted in 1932 with Singer Libby Holman (Moanin' Low) Reynolds as the hypotenuse in the alleged triangle killing of Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith (Camels) Reynolds, later released (with Libby) because of insufficient evidence; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Died. Sir Herbert Williams, 69, onetime (1928-29) Parliamentary Secretary, ultraconservative M.P. whose best-known act of statesmanship in the past 25 years was to hurl a shelled egg across the House during a 1953 debate on food prices; of a stroke; in London.

Died. Bess Streeter Aldrich, 73. novelist (Miss Bishop) and short-story writer, whose tales of pioneer life in Iowa and Nebraska delighted women's magazine readers for two generations; of cancer; in Lincoln, Neb.

Died. Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Co lette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket (Colette), 81, called by Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own name the novels he forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president of the Academic Goncourt (the Academic Francaise admits only men), ironically achieved widespread fame in the U.S. only recently as the discoverer of Actress Audrey Hepburn.

Died. Dr. David Fairchild, 85, agricultural explorer who was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 species of plants to the U.S. (including the soybean, papaya, avocado), in 1905 planted Washington's first Japanese cherry trees; of a heart ailment; in Coconut Grove, Fla.

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