Died. Owen Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee.

Died. Lieut. General Mikhail V. Khrunichev, 60, barrel-chested former blacksmith who only eight weeks ago was named a Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, boss of a newly created agency charged with mobilizing all applied science; of a heart attack; in Moscow.

Died. Nicholas W. Orloff, 66, Russian prince and army officer who fled the Bolsheviks in 1920, became a U.S. citizen, served as chief United Nations interpreter until 1955, was the deft unofficial translator for the American Broadcasting Co. during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour; of a heart attack; in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Died. Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, dictator of the Dominican Republic since 1930; by an assassin's bullet; near Ciudad Trujillo (see THE HEMISPHERE).

Died. George S. Kaufman, 71, versatile, dry-witted playwright; after a series of strokes; in Manhattan (see SHOW BUSINESS ).

Died. Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell, 80, silver-haired, scholarly psychologist who founded Yale's Clinic of Child Development in 1911 to study abnormal children, soon realized that too little was known about normal children, spent the rest of his life observing them and writing about them in more than 25 books; of pneumonia; in New Haven. Conn. In his three best-known works. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, The Child from Five to Ten and Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, which were translated into 25 languages, Gesell explained behavior patterns from cradle through adolescence to generations of anxious parents. His basic point: "The developing child is the most complicated of all bundles of atoms. It takes him a long time to grow up, and he must do his own growing."

Died. Melvin Jones. 82, hearty, back-slapping founder of Lions International and its longtime secretary-general, who helped make the Lions the world's largest service-club association with 625,539 members in 112 nations united under the motto "We Serve" and the theme song Roar, Lion, Roar; after a series of strokes; in Flossmoor, Ill.

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