Divorced. Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas, 51, mean-looking, smooth-skulled film actor (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Dirty Dozen) and television star (Kojak, the Polish sleuth), and Marilynn Savalas, 34; after 13 years of marriage, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. John O. Levinson, 59, Chicago attorney who, as a nine-year-old boy, was the original murder target of self-styled "Supermen" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; of cancer; in Portland, Me. Levinson was a friend of Loeb's younger brother Tommy in 1924 when the jaded teen-age duo decided on him as the victim of their "perfect crime." The pair attempted to follow Levinson home from a sand-lot baseball game, but he had turned down a different street from the usual one and inadvertently eluded them. They then killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks instead.

Died. Margaret Clapp, 64, for 17 years president of her alma mater, Wellesley College; of cancer; in Tyringham, Mass. Clapp won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for her Columbia University Ph.D. thesis, a biography of 19th century Editor John Bigelow. One year later, as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, she was tapped for the presidency of the venerable women's college. An advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs in the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, the first woman ever to hold that diplomatic rank.

Died. Agnes Moorehead, 67, consummate character actress; in Rochester, Minn. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Moorehead worked on the New York stage, then turned to radio, where she re-created the voices of notable women for the March of Time. A co-founder with Orson Welles of the Mercury Theater, she helped him perpetrate the 1938 "invasion from Mars" radio broadcast and in 1941 landed the first of her hundred or so screen roles in Citizen Kane (as Kane's mother). An Oscar nominee for five films including Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (she never won), she was best known in recent years as Endora, the waspish mother witch of TV's durable Bewitched series.

Died. Sir Frank Douglas Hewson Packer, 67, Australian communications mogul and sailing enthusiast; of pneumonia; in Sydney. Packer began making waves with the launching of Australian Women's Weekly, today the country's top-circulation weekly magazine. He went on to build a profitable publishing and television conglomerate and in 1972 sold his two largest newspapers, the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to his archrival, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million. Once an amateur heavyweight boxing champion, Packer was combative, even ruthless, in his business dealings. He described his unsuccessful bids for the yachting America's Cup in 1962 and 1970 as prompted by "an excess of champagne and delusions of grandeur."

Died. Karl Friedrich Meyer, 89, Swiss-American virologist-bacteriolo-gist-epidemiologist; of cancer; in San Francisco. Meyer spent more than 60 years studying a wide range of diseases, including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics.

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