Married. Princess Margrethe of Denmark, 27, eldest daughter of Denmark's King Frederik IX and heir to the throne; and Count Henri de Monpezat, 32, handsome French diplomat; in a royalty-studded ceremony in Copenhagen's ancient Holmens Church.

Died. Major Edward G. Givens, 37, Air Force test pilot and one of 19 new astronauts selected last year, who was assigned as project officer in the development of a jet-powered backpack for maneuvering on space walks; of injuries suffered when the Volkswagen he was driving crashed near Houston.

Died. Lieut. General Glen R. Birchard, 53, head of the Alaskan Command, who, during the Berlin airlift, developed intricate plans that enabled the Air Force to hit a peak flow of an average 624 planes daily into the besieged city, finally took over the Alaskan Command in August 1966, was responsible for the operations of 40,000 military personnel; of drowning after his float plane crashed on takeoff from Upper Ugashik Lake, Alaska, during a fishing trip.

Died. Pamela Frankau, 59, prolific British novelist, a master of swiftly paced narrative and clever dialogue, who altogether produced 30 books ranging from her first light, breezy novels (Marriage of Harlequin, 1927) to later, more substantial works seeking to make a moral point, notably in the just completed trilogy, Clothes of the King's Son, a mystic parable about good and evil; of cancer; in London.

Died. Spencer Tracy, 67, Hollywood's master of character, who made up in art what he lacked in looks ("I've got a face," he once said, "like a beat-up barn door"); over four decades earned more Academy Award nominations (eight) than any other actor and actually won two Oscars, as the stoic Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous (1937) and the warmhearted Father Flanagan in Boys' Town (1938), was also memorable as Hemingway's gnarled hero in The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and as a stern jurist in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

Died. Dorothy Parker, 73, poet, critic, author, wit; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see p. 94).

Died. Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter, 74, prelate of the archdiocese of St. Louis and one of his church's leading advocates of reform; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. Frail in body, but pure steel in will, he was the man who as Archbishop of St. Louis in 1947 stunned segregationists by ordering the integration of local parochial schools, and threatened to excommunicate opponents when they proposed legal action. Named a cardinal in 1960, he emerged at the Second Vatican Council as the unquestioned leader of progressive forces among the U.S. hierarchy, later executing many reform measures, giving his approval in 1964 to the first wedding ever held in the U.S. at which both Catholic and Protestant clerics officiated, and authorizing the U.S.'s first Mass in English.

Died. Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, 77, commander of U.S. submarine forces in the Pacific from 1943 to 1945, who played the key role in developing tactics that enabled his undersea raiders to mount a devastating campaign against Japanese shipping, altogether sinking 1,392 vessels, more than that of all other services combined, and effectively cut Japan off from its Axis partners; of a heart attack; in Monte Sereno, Calif.

Died. John F. Finerty, 82, acerbic trial lawyer who defended many unpopular causes, in the 1920s fought for the release of funds donated by Americans to aid Eamon de Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside, N.Y.

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