Married. Baron James de Rothschild, 70, oldest member of the banking dynasty's French branch, one of France's leading sportsmen; and Yvette Choquet, 27, a Theatre de Paris usherette who five years ago showed him to his seat so graciously he invited her to dinner at Laperouse; he for the second time (his wife of 41 years died two years ago), she for the first; in Paris.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Spike, 42, Protestant minister, writer (To Be a Man), civil rights leader, and executive chairman of the National Council of Churches' race commission until last December when he became head of the University of Chicago's new doctor-of-ministry program, who helped negotiate last summer's open-housing agreement in Chicago; of massive head injuries when he was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant in the guest room of a new religious center at Ohio State University; in Columbus.

Died. Douglas Stringfellow, 44, Utah Republican Congressman from 1952 to 1954, a paraplegic veteran whose wondrous accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif.

Died. Wieland Wagner, 49, grandson of Composer Richard and avantgarde opera designer; of sarcoidosis; in Munich. "I was born in a mausoleum," Wieland once said, referring to Bayreuth, where Grossvater Wagner had built his own shrine, and he lost not a moment in "clearing 80 years of Kitsch off the stage" when he was made co-director of the family-run Bayreuth Festival in 1951. He began by throwing out all the traditional trappings--animal skins, horned helmets, swan boats and ponderous sets--replacing them with simple robes and stark, dimly lit slabs designed to evoke modern psychological drama; the old guard cried, "Goetter-daemmerung!," but critics and audiences hailed "the new Bayreuth style" which soon established itself in opera companies around the world.

Died. Jean-Pierre Peugeot, 70, retired head of France's third biggest automaker (after Renault and Citroen), with an output of 291,176 vehicles and $573 million in sales last year, who in 1945 took over the family business, had to rebuild its bombed-out and dismantled factories, nevertheless started producing cars again the same year, kept the Peugeot one of Europe's best-made, if somewhat stodgily styled, medium-priced cars; of a heart attack; in Paris.

Died. Harry Byrd, 79, ex-U.S. Senator from Virginia; of a brain tumor; in Berryville, Va. (see THE NATION).

Died. Florence Nightingale Graham, 82, who as Elizabeth Arden made a beautiful fortune; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING).

Died. Roy A. Hunt, 85, longtime president (1928-51) and executive committee chairman (1951-63) of the Aluminum Co. of America, who steered the company his father helped start through its middle growth years by finding hundreds of new uses for the metal, struggling through the Depression, then expanding to meet the needs of World War II, while fending off a Government antitrust suit that lasted on and off for 13 years, saw Alcoa's sales rise from $30 million in 1928 to $980 million by 1963; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Cleo de Merode, 91, the most beautiful belle of the Belle Epoque; in Paris. An aristocrat by birth and a ballerina by profession, she was so lovely Degas often sketched her, one critic even hailed her as "Gloria in Excelsis Cleo"; she had many suitors but none so ardent as Leopold II, aging bon-vivant King of the Belgians, who in the late 1890s pursued her so frantically that few believed her avowals (probably true) that their relationship was platonic. She danced on until 1924, when she retired, gave ballet lessons (until last year) and wrote a charming volume of memoirs (Le Ballet de ma Vie).

Died. The Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 92, "Red Dean" of Britain's Canterbury Cathedral from 1931 to 1963, whose vociferous eccentricities gave him a visibility far out of proportion to his rank, distinctly subordinate to Canterbury's archbishop; after a severe fall; near the cathedral. The son of a well-off Manchester manufacturer, he once told a group of missionaries that he favored cannibalism in time of famine, at other times advocated beach pajamas in church, a municipal dishwashing service, and giving part of Australia to overpopulated Japan. He mainly preached the Red line, in 1952 accused the U.S. of germ warfare in Korea, touching off cries in Parliament that the tall, white-haired old man was "a heretic," "a traitor," "a clown in gaiters"; whatever he was--and he admitted to being a "bit of a barbarian under my skin"--Parliament ended by deciding that, in a democracy, he was free to speak his mind.

Died. Sebastian S. Kresge, 99, founder of a nationwide chain of five and tens, whose life was a masterpiece of personal parsimony and public philanthropy; of pneumonia; in East Stroudsburg, Pa. (see U.S. BUSINESS).

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