DIED. Ella Grasso, 61, effective Connecticut politician, first woman to govern a state who did not succeed her husband; of cancer; in Hartford (see NATION).

DIED. Frederika Louise of Hannover, 63, beautiful, domineering, German-born Queen of Greece from 1947 until the death of her husband King Paul in 1964, mother of exiled King Constantine and strong-willed matriarch whose imperious demands and interventions in Greek politics sent mobs into Athens' streets and might have helped pave the way for the monarchy's overthrow in 1967; of heart failure after surgery; in Madrid, where she was visiting her daughter Queen Sofia of Spain.

DIED. Margaret McNamara, 65, wife of World Bank President and former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, founder of Reading Is Fundamental, which since 1966 has provided more than 3 million poor children with 37 million books; of cancer; in Washington, D.C.

DIED. Hugh Addonizio, 67, burly Democratic Congressman from New Jersey (1949-62) and mayor of Newark (1962-70), who was convicted of extortion and conspiracy in 1970, spent five years in federal prison; of a heart attack; in Red Bank, N.J.

DIED. John Converse, 71, plastic surgeon and founder-director of New York University's Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, a center that combines surgery with psychology and speech therapy to mend the psyches as well as the features of the disfigured; of a heart attack; in Southampton, N.Y. The University of Paris-trained Converse pioneered many surgical techniques, including cranial-facial restructuring, edited a seven-volume text on reconstructive plastic surgery known in the field as "the bible."

DIED. Donald Douglas, 88, pioneering aircraft designer whose development in 1935 of the durable DC-3 opened up the era of mass commercial air travel; in Palm Springs, Calif. The Brooklyn-born, M.I.T.-educated engineer had already helped design the world's first wind tunnel when, at 28, he used $600 to start his own aircraft business in the back of a Los Angeles barbershop. Government orders for military planes quickly established the firm, but its DC (for Douglas Commercial) series truly made it fly. Douglas' masterpiece, the DC-3, was the first American plane to make a profit from passengers only. During World War II, more than 10,000 were built and adapted for military use as the C-47 transport. Douglas Aircraft lost the race into the jet age when Boeing introduced the 707 in 1958, a year ahead of Douglas' DC-8. In 1967 the ailing Douglas firm was absorbed by McDonnell Aircraft, and its founder retired.

DIED. Mary Parkman Peabody, 89, doughty Boston Brahmin civil rights activist who was arrested in 1964 at age 72 for leading a demonstration in St. Augustine, Fla., while her son Endicott Peabody was Governor of Massachusetts; of heart failure; in Cambridge, Mass.

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