Died. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 72, Promethean American aviator (see THE NATION).

Died. Otto Strasser, 76, onetime intimate turned archenemy of Adolf Hitler; of a heart attack; in Munich. An early ally of the rising Fuehrer, Strasser preached Nazism with a socialist tinge and became disgusted by Hitler's later romance with big business. Expelled from the party in 1930, he formed the rival Black Front committed to Hitler's ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked at his typewriter and awaited repatriation as Germany's savior. He returned home in 1955, founded a new nationalist party--and watched it fizzle forthwith.

Died. Philip L. Rhodes, 79, prolific naval architect whose Manhattan firm laid down lines for 700 vessels ranging from mine layers to troopships during World War II but was best known for his designs of sailboats, among them the popular 11 1/2-ft. Penguin dinghy, Bounty II, one of the first successful fiber-glass ocean racers, and the twelve-meter sloop Weatherly, winner of the 1962 America's Cup races; in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 80, Russian-born aeronautical pioneer; in Manhattan. A czarist pilot who downed 13 German planes in World War I after losing a leg in combat, Seversky settled in the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then spelled out a program for military dominance through long-range superbombers in a 1942 bestseller, Victory Through Air Power.

Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

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