Died. Marjorie Uris, 26, former New York fashion model who married Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) six months ago; apparently by her own hand (.38-cal. revolver); in Aspen, Colo.

Died. Jack Kirkland, 66, newspaper-man-turned-playwright who in 1933 transformed Erskine Caldwell's earthy Tobacco Road into one of the most successful Broadway plays of its time (more than 3,000 performances), wrote the Broadway version of Man with the Golden Arm, and recently completed the book for a musical adaptation of Tobacco Road entitled Jeeter; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Guido Guida, 71, Sicilian ear-nose-and-throat specialist who in 1935 founded the International Radio Medical Center (CIRM) in Rome, which provides assistance for ships at sea that lack doctors, has radioed remedies and even emergency surgical instructions for some 40,000 ailing seamen; of cancer; in Rome.

Died. Kingsley Martin, 71, eminent British Socialist and editor of the New Statesman from 1931 to 1960, whose radical views helped shape Labor Party policy and colored the entire fabric of British politics; of a stroke; in Cairo. When Martin came to the New Statesman, it was an insignificant left-wing weekly with a small readership and less clout. Martin drew his Fabian Society friends (G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells) to the pages of the magazine, made it Britain's foremost intellectual forum, increased circulation to 80,000. His own influential column, "London Diary," was Utopian in thrust, often whimsical in tone, and maddening to the government. Though radicals rallied around him, he refused to be lured into politics. As he once said: "I always preferred to tell the other chap what to do."

Died. Eugene Vidal, 73, pioneer promoter of civil aviation and father of Author Gore Vidal; in Los Angeles, Calif. Vidal starred in football at West Point and competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920. He later taught aviation and coached football at the academy, resigned his commission in 1926 to become assistant general manager of Transcontinental Air Transport (now TWA). From 1933 to 1937 he was Director of Air Commerce in Washington, where he organized and expanded the Government's civil aeronautics program. Later he served as a director of Northeast Airlines and as aviation adviser to the Army Chief of Staff.

Died. Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 81, grande dame of British politics and symbol of the Liberal Party's intellectual-humanist tradition; in London. The daughter of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (1908-16), Lady Asquith became her party's most eloquent spokesman in the 1930s. She was twice defeated for the House of Commons, but in 1964 was granted a lifetime peerage and thus a seat in the House of Lords --from which she berated Prime Minister Wilson for his failure to cope with Britain's economic woes.

Died. Ernest Ansermet, 85, who founded I'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 1918 and conducted it with precision and puissance for 49 years; of a heart attack; in Geneva. A daring innovator, Ansermet was acclaimed by critics for his imaginative forays into Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky. The Suisse Romande was always his first love, but he also helped found I'Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and occasionally shared the baton with Toscanini at the New York Philharmonic.

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