ENGAGED. Prince Charles, 32, heir to the British throne; and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the girl next door (see PEOPLE).

DIED. Shep Fields, 70, bandleader who was known during the 1930s and '40s for his Rippling Rhythm, a bubbly blend of light, catchy orchestrations and the sound made by blowing through a straw into a bowl of water near the microphone; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Michael Maltese, 72, pre-eminent cartoon animator and writer who, starting in 1937, helped create such characters as Henery Hawk, Sylvester Cat and Road Runner, and invented countless comic calamities for them and others, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and the Flintstones; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

DIED. John Moors Cabot, 79, career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Colombia, Poland and Sweden, who was one of the first foreign affairs specialists to anticipate the 1948 break between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and who represented the U.S. in the Warsaw negotiations that led to the resumption of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China in 1973; after a stroke; in Washington.

DIED. Howard Hanson, 84. director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., from 1924 to 1964 and a composer whose Fourth Symphony won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944; in Rochester. Also a teacher and conductor, he fought tirelessly, if unsuccessfully, against progressive trends in American classical music.

DIED. Joe Smith, 97, half of the legendary comedy team of Smith and Dale, who entertained generations of audiences in virtually every medium of show business, from Bowery saloons to vaudeville to television, where they enjoyed a late resurgence as performers on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s; in Englewood, N.J. Smith and Charlie Dale joined forces in 1898, building their enduring appeal on a series of broad, boisterous sketches like "Hungarian Rhapsody" and the classic "Dr. Kronkheit" ("Doctor, how much is it a visit?" "Ten dollars the first visit, five dollars thereafter." "Here I am again!"). The pair, who continued to work together until Dale's death in 1971, partly inspired the Neil Simon play and film The Sunshine Boys, which starred George Burns and Walter Matthau.

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