DIED. Robert ("the Bear") Hite, 38, lead singer and co-founder of the blues-rock group Canned Heat, which rose to fame during the 1960s with such hits as On the Road Again and Going Up the Country; of unknown causes; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Alfred Jensen, 77, Guatemalan-born painter whose lushly colored, checkerboard-patterned paintings were inspired by abstruse mathematical theories and the architecture of ancient civilizations; of cancer; in Livingston, N.J.

DIED. Norman Taurog, 82, director who won an Oscar for the 1931 Jackie Cooper vehicle Skippy, and also made Boys Town (1938) and a string of lighthearted comedies and musicals between the 1940s and the 1960s, including six with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and nine with Elvis Presley; in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

DIED. Mark Ethridge, 84, liberal, outspoken journalist who as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times between 1936 and 1963 helped lift both newspapers to national prominence; in Moncure, N.C. Ethridge's Louisville stewardship was distinguished by expanded, gimmick-free news coverage, enlivened writing and makeup, and an editorial page that spoke out strongly against such targets as poverty and racism, the latter of which he once described as "a complete humiliation of all people who profess any faith in democracy."

DIED. Edward Russell, 85, British military jurist and author who prosecuted all war crimes trials in the British zone of Germany after World War II, and resigned as assistant judge advocate general in 1954 in order to publish his controversial book The Scourge of the Swastika, in which he condemned Nazi atrocities as an outgrowth of the master-race doctrine; in Hastings, England.

DIED. Leo Kanner, 86, recognized as the father of child psychology for being the first to describe early infantile autism, which also became known as Kanner syndrome, and for other pioneering work at the Johns Hopkins Children's Psychiatric Clinic, which he founded in 1930; in Sykesville, Md. Kanner wrote the classic textbook Child Psychiatry (1935) as well as more popular works on child rearing in which, for example, he urged mothers to regain the common sense that had "been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated by would-be omniscient totalitarians."

DIED. Omar Bradley, 88, the "G.I.'s general," who helped lead the Normandy invasion in World War II and later served as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; in New York City (see NATION).

DIED. Austin Scott, 96, Harvard Law School professor who in his 50 years there--the longest teaching career in the university's history--trained many of the nation's best lawyers, judges and legal scholars, and whose 1939 text, Scott on Trusts, is a classic in the field; in Boston.

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