MARRIED. Donna Summer, 31, queen of disco music; and Bruce Sudano, 31, lead guitarist of her backup band, Brooklyn Dreams; she for the second time, he for the first; in Los Angeles. The couple are expecting a child early next year.

DIED. Sir Seretse Khama, 59, popular President of the southern African nation of Botswana since its independence in 1966; of cancer; in Gaborone, the capital. The hereditary chief of the Bamangwato, the dominant tribe among the Texas-size, cattle-herding country's 830,000 people, Khama was exiled to Britain by tribal elders in 1950 after his marriage to Ruth Williams, a white English secretary he met while studying law in London. He finally renounced his chieftaincy in order to return and to enter politics, winning election as Prime Minister in 1965 and as President the following year. While opposing the white minority regimes in neighboring South Africa and Rhodesia, he maintained his country's vital economic ties with them. He left behind a society with few racial or tribal tensions, a growing free-enterprise economy and a functioning democratic system.

DIED. Ralph ("Shug") Jordan, 69, head football coach at Auburn University for 25 seasons (until 1975), and winner of more Southeastern Conference games than anyone but Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant and Mississippi's John Vaught; of leukemia; in Auburn, Ala. Jordan had 175 wins, 83 losses and seven ties; though Bryant's Crimson Tide beat Jordan's Tigers 13 times in 18 years, Auburn's five wins were the most against 'Bama by any S.E.C. team.

DIED. Benjamin B. Selvin, 82, long-playing bandleader and record company executive, who made or produced more discs--some 9,000 titles--than anyone else; in Roslyn, N.Y. Dardanella, a heavy-beat foxtrot that Selvin recorded in 1919, was the first disc to sell 1 million copies. He helped launch many stars, overseeing Bing Crosby's first solo recording; during one instrumental break, Selvin recalled, "I suggested that Crosby whistle. He's been whistling ever since."

DIED. Eddie Jackson, 84, gravel-voiced singer and comedian who wowed 'em in nightclubs and on TV shows, often in partnership with Jimmy Durante; in Los Angeles. The high-stepping Jackson's career first flourished during Prohibition, when he teamed with Durante and Dancer Lou Clayton in a famous horseplay-and-patter act that played Manhattan hotspots and speakeasies. He was celebrated as much for his rasping renditions of classics like Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? as for his mastery of the top hat-tipping dance form called strutting. "Nobody struts no more," he lamented. "I'm the last one."

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