EXPECTING. Jill Clayburgh, 36, actress best known for her portrayals of winsomely mature liberated women (An Unmarried Woman, Starting Over), and Playwright David Rabe, 40, (Streamers): their first child; next March. Clayburgh's first post-partum role: the part of a middle-aged woman who wants to have a baby, in a film named Expecting Miracles.

DIED. Bill Evans, 51, facile-fingered jazz pianist and composer whose subtle lyricism and inventive harmonies won him five Grammy Awards and five Down Beat Critics Polls; of a bleeding ulcer and bronchial pneumonia; in New York City. Asked to join the Miles Davis sextet in 1959, he replaced Red Garland in a band that included John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. After a six-month collaboration that resulted in the classic jazz album Kind of Blue, he formed his own trio and recorded such albums as Conversations with Myself and Affinity.

DIED. General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, Nicaragua's longtime strongman who was ousted last year; of bazooka and machine-gun fire after leaving his exile villa; in Asuncion, Paraguay (see WORLD).

DIED. Josephine Hoffa, 62, wife of James R. Hoffa, former Teamsters union boss who has been missing and presumed murdered since July 30, 1975; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Said Mrs. Hoffa in a poignant 1976 interview with the Detroit News: "I've got to find out what happened to my man. Other women lose their husbands. They at least have comfort in knowing where they died and are buried."

DIED. Jean Piaget, 84, Swiss psychologist whose theories of child development profoundly altered conventional views of human intelligence and techniques of modern education; in Geneva (see BEHAVIOR).

DIED. Katherine Anne Porter, 90, author of gemlike novellas and short stories that dealt, in her words, with the human propensity for "self-betrayal and self-deception, in all its forms"; in Silver Spring, Md. With such lapidary works as Flowering Judas, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the Texas-born Porter reigned in the 1930s and '40s as the undisputed queen of the short story. But popular and financial success did not come until the publication in 1962 of her only full-length novel, Ship of Fools, which received mixed reviews but became an international bestseller and served as the basis of a star-heavy film. In 1966, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction. "I have nothing to complain of in my life," she told an interviewer in 1974. "It was hell on earth, earlier, but I am glad I lived it."

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