MARRIED. Jessica Savitch, 31, anchorwoman on NBC-TV's weekend Nightly News; and Mel Korn, 50, head of a Philadelphia ad agency; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

DIED. Celia Sanchez, 57, the zealous Communist who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra during the Cuban Revolution and later became his nearly constant companion and Cuba's most powerful woman; of what the state-run radio called a "painful illness"; in Havana.

DIED. Simone Mathieu, 71, French tennis star and Resistance heroine; after a long illness; in Paris. In the 1930s, Mathieu won three women's doubles titles at Wimbledon. Sentenced to death by the Vichy government for helping to organize the Free French movement in London, she led Charles de Gaulle's Compagnie de Voluntaries Franc,aises, known as the "French WACs."

DIED. John W. Mauchly, 72, co-inventor of the first all-electronic computer; during heart surgery; in Abington, Pa. The Ohio-born physicist was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 when he and Graduate Student J. Presper Eckert Jr. began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed in 1950. But Sperry lost its early lead in computers to IBM, and ENIAC'S creators, having signed away their patents early, never achieved great wealth. Said Mauchly: "That is life."

DIED. George Meany, 85, U.S. labor's leader for a quarter-century; in Washington, D.C. (see NATION).

DIED. Oscar R. Ewing, 90, head of the Federal Security Agency for five years before its 1953 reconstitution as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ewing, a Wall Street lawyer, led Harry Truman's bid to win nomination as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate in 1944 and engineered his 1948 presidential campaign. At the F.S.A., he sharply expanded the Social Security system. Critics accused Ewing of helping to build a welfare state, but he insisted that federally provided basic services were "the best possible defense against socialism."

MURDER REVEALED. Joy Adamson, 69, naturalist and author of Born Free and other books, previously reported to have been slain by a lion at her camp in central Kenya. Police announced last week that she had not been mauled but stabbed to death; three former employees of hers are being held in the case.

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