Died. Dr. Felix Kersten, 61, Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler's personal physician ( "my magic Buddha"), who used his influence over his patient to save 3,000,000 Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives me trouble all the time with his lists of names and his petitions for mercy. What a crew! Dutch. Jewish and German traitors. I don't know why I go on putting up with him."

Died. Beardsley Ruml, 65, economic idea man who thought up the pay-as-you-go tax plan, got it accepted by a reluctant Congress in 1943 with the support of much of the press and, according to a Gallup poll, 83% of the nation's rich, 86% of its poor; of a heart ailment; in Danbury, Conn, on the day U.S. taxes became due. After a lively term as dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1933. Ruml became treasurer of Macy's, overhauled its accounting system. Some of his ideas found their way into the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 and aided in the establishment of the World Bank in 1945. Ruml usually hatched his ideas in a reclining position, denied the usefulness of any kind of life but the contemplative: "I spent many years getting into condition for a sedentary life and, having got into condition, I never broke training."

Died. Toyohiko Kagawa, 72, Japan's foremost Christian social worker, the son of a nobleman and his concubine, who was converted to Christianity at 15, went to live in the harrowing slums of Kobe where he contracted both tuberculosis and trachoma helping the poor; of a heart ailment; in Tokyo. Kagawa organized labor unions and cooperatives the length and breadth of Japan, bitterly denounced his government for attacking China, though he later supported the war against the U.S. He continued his good works among Japan's masses after the war in spite of opposition from the Communists.

Died. Mirza Ali Khan, 72, the Fakir of Ipi, leader of the fierce Pathan tribe in the rugged mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, who repeatedly raided the British between 1919 and 1947, got help at times from Afghanistan and the Axis powers, who were anxious to keep the British tied up; of a heart ailment; in his mountain home in Waziristan.

Died. Xenia Alexandrovna, 85, the Grand Duchess Xenia. eldest sister of Russia's last czar. Nicholas II, one of the few members of the Romanov family to escape the brutal murders by the Bolsheviks of Nicholas, his children and relatives in 1918; of pneumonia; at Hampton Court. England. When the Bolsheviks came to power. Britain's King George V sent the dreadnought Marlborough to Yalta to carry the grand duchess and her family to safety in England. Her eldest daughter Irene married Prince Yusupov, who was one of the assassins of Rasputin.

Died. Ellery Sedgwick, 88. editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1908 to 1938, in whose regime circulation rose from 10,000 to 125,000; of a heart attack; in Washington. Sedgwick prided himself on the young authors, e.g., Hemingway, whom he introduced to the public, but he missed on some. Robert Frost recalls his rejection: "We are very sorry but at the moment the Atlantic has no place for vigorous verse." A longtime liberal who used the columns of the Atlantic to champion Sacco and Vanzetti, Sedgwick faced a torrent of criticism in 1938 when he wrote articles for the New York Times praising Franco's movement in Spain.

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