Married. Norton Simon, 64, industrialist, art collector and maverick California Republican who spent nearly $2,000,000 in an unsuccessful 1970 Senate primary contest; and Jennifer Jones, 52, actress and 1943 Oscar winner for The Song of Bernadette; he for the second time, she for the third; on a yacht in the English Channel.

Married. Serge Obolensky, 80, the Russian prince who became a U.S.-based patriarch of the international jet set; and Marilyn Fraser Wall, 44, a Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., millionairess; she for the second time, he for the third (his marriages to the daughters of Czar Alexander II and John Jacob Astor ended in divorce); in Arlington, Va.

Died. Audie Murphy, 46, America's most decorated hero of World War II, who later appeared in 40 films (see THE NATION).

Died. Joe E. Lewis, 69, carousing king of nightclub comics; of complications from diabetes; in Manhattan. Lewis was of comedy's Drinking School ("How long can I go on telling jokes and drinking? I can see the handwriting on the floor right now"). At the height of what he called "the Great Drought" (Prohibition), he was earning $650 a week performing in a mob-owned Chicago speakeasy. In 1927 he switched to a rival band's establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s he was back on top of the saloon circuit. A fixture at Aqueduct as well as the Copa and the Las Vegas Strip, he was traditionally joined by his audiences in shouting "Post time!" before each of the several drinks he downed during a performance.

Died. Reinhold Niebuhr, 78, Protestant theologian and political thinker (see RELIGION).

Died. Gyoergy Lukacs, 86, Communist theoretician; in Budapest. Though often called "the greatest Marxist since Karl Marx," the courtly ideologist still managed to offend both Lenin and Stalin. Lukacs eloquently criticized the rigidity of Soviet doctrine, then, while in exile in Moscow, was forced by Stalin to denounce his own early works. He survived periodic purges to join in the chorus of denunciation later directed against Stalin. A champion of such Communist heresies as pluralism and literary freedom, Lukacs took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He managed to avoid punishment and resumed his teaching and writing under the watchful eye of the pro-Moscow Kadar regime.

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