DIED. Bobby Van, 47, lithe, light-footed dancer, comedian and actor in films, on television, and on Broadway, where he starred in the 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette with Ruby Keeler; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The son of vaudevillians, he started as a bandleader and trumpet player at Catskills resorts. One weekend he was asked to fill in for a missing act. "I ad-libbed some jokes," he recalled, "and when they ran out, I danced. After that Pop threw away my trumpet."

DIED. Haydee Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory in 1959.

DIED. Kenneth Tynan, 53, English drama critic and writer, whose astringently elegant, epigrammatic prose stirred controversy and swayed opinions on both sides of the Atlantic; of emphysema; in Santa Monica, Calif. He cut a precocious figure at Oxford, and by age 27 was drama critic of the London Observer. Admitting that his aim was to "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds," he championed new playwrights (Osborne, Wesker) whose work undermined drawing-room gentility and reinforced "the umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world." For ten years, starting in 1963, Tynan served as literary manager of Britain's National Theater under Director Laurence Olivier. He "devised" the 1969 Oh! Calcutta!, a series of skits devoted to simulated sex and unsimulated nudity. Having written about topics from bullfighting to ballet and from Charlie Chaplin to Truman Capote, he recently published Show People, which profiled several personalities (among them: Ralph Richardson, Johnny Carson) whom he would invite to "an ideal dinner party."

DIED. Allen Clayton Hoskins, 59, black child actor who, as the pigtailed, resourceful Farina, made 105 "Our Gang" comedies in nine years, more than anyone else in the long-running (1922-44) series; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif.

DIED. William J. Baroody, 64, the director from 1962 until 1978 of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a respected conservative think tank; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. He built the small, business-oriented lobbying firm into a credible counterpart of the liberal Brookings Institution, largely by attracting well-known scholars and political figures to its ranks.

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