ENGAGED. Hugh Carey, 61, Governor of New York; and Evangeline Gouletas, 44, millionaire Chicago real estate developer whom Carey met at the Reagan Inauguration; in Washington. The wedding, his second, her third, is planned for this Saturday, Carey's birthday.

DIED. Yuri Trifonov, 55, Soviet writer who plumbed the moral dilemmas of Soviet life in such subtle, allusive works as The House on the Embankment (1976), The Long Goodbye (1971) and The Exchange (1969); of a heart attack following a kidney operation; in Moscow. Trifonov, whose father, a high Bolshevik official, was imprisoned and executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and whose mother was sent to a prison camp, once explained: "A lot of things can be said best through art, through metaphor."

DIED. Eric Williams, 69, scholarly, strong-willed Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who in 1962 led his two-island nation to independence from Britain; of a heart attack; in St. Anne, Trinidad. A noted historian and author of the 1944 book Capitalism and Slavery, Williams became Chief Minister in 1956 and began a program of political reform and economic development that transformed the islands into one of the most wealthy and industrialized locales in the Caribbean.

DIED. Bernard Hollowood, 70, editor of the British humor magazine Punch from 1957 to 1968, who expanded its format to include political and social commentary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Guildford, England. Hollowood, whose editorials criticized U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and urged Britain's entry into the European Community, once said: "Nobody on earth can read exclusively funny articles without getting weary."

DIED. Juan Trippe, 81, aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways, which he guided for 41 years until his retirement in 1968; after a stroke; in New York City, (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS).

DIED. Enid Bagnold, 91, British playwright and novelist whose elegant, carefully wrought works include the Broadway and London hit The Chalk Garden (1955) and the 1935 novel National Velvet, which nine years later became a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, then twelve years old; in London. Bagnold, who was married for 42 years to Sir Roderick Jones, longtime chairman of the Reuters news agency, demanded three hours every day for writing in their 35-room mansion in Rotting-dean, Sussex.

DIED. DeWitt Wallace, 91, founder and longtime editor of Reader's Digest, the most successful monthly in the world; of pneumonia; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. (see PRESS).

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