Engaged. Prince Richard of Gloucester, 27, Queen Elizabeth's cousin and tenth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Birgitte van Deurs, 25, Danish secretary who met the prince six years ago while both were students at Cambridge.

Divorced. Laurence Harvey, 43, Lithuanian-born star of films made on both sides of the Atlantic (Room at the Top, Summer and Smoke, Of Human Bondage, Hurry Sundown); by Joan Harvey, 50, widow of Columbia Pictures Head Harry Cohn; because of irreconcilable differences; after three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Rhonda Fleming, 48, erstwhile film sultress (The Big Circus, The Crowded Sky, Gunfight at the OK Corral); and Hall Bartlett, 50, Hollywood producer (Crazylegs, Drango); after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Edgar Snow, 66, preeminent American journalist specializing in Chinese affairs (see THE PRESS).

Died. Baron Sieff of Brimpton, 82, British retail magnate and international Zionist leader; in London. Marks & Spencer was scarcely more than a chain of penny bazaars in 1915 when Israel Moses Sieff joined Simon Marks, his brother-in-law and son of the company's founder, on the board of directors. Pioneering in the use of efficiency studies, market analysis and direct purchasing from manufacturers, the two built the firm into a retail empire of more than 240 stores that now accounts for a tenth of all clothing sales in Britain. Sieff was a founder of the World Jewish Congress in 1936 and an early Zionist fund raiser with Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president.

Died. Frank Porter Graham, 85, Southern educator and early defender of civil rights; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A historian, Graham became president of the newly consolidated University of North Carolina in 1930 and held the post for 19 controversial years. He defended the right of students to invite speakers of all ideologies and spoke up for trade unionists and the pioneer civil rights demonstrators. Though these positions made him an anathema to many Southern conservatives, Graham was appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat in 1949. The following year he lost the nomination for a full term after a campaign bitter with racial overtones. For the next 16 years Graham worked as a U.N. mediator in a determined but unsuccessful effort to resolve the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir.

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