DIED. Valeri Kharlamov, 33, high-scoring forward for the Soviet Union's national ice hockey team since 1969, who was instrumental in the team's Olympic championships in 1972 and 1976; of injuries received in a head-on car collision that also killed his wife Irina; near Moscow.

DIED. Dusko Popov, 69, who as a double agent for British intelligence during World War II warned that the Japanese were planning to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor and helped divert Nazi troops from the site of the Allied invasion at Normandy; after a long illness; in Opio, France. The Yugoslav-born Popov passed false information to the Nazis under the code name Tricycle, and was said to be a model for Ian Fleming's fictional spy hero James Bond.

DIED. William Dean, 82, no-nonsense Army major general who survived three years in prisoner-of-war camps during the Korean War; in Berkeley, Calif. Dean was separated from troops of his 24th Infantry Division in 1950. After eluding Communist patrols for 30 days, he was captured but resisted all efforts by the enemy to extract military information from him. Dean won the Medal of Honor but said: "I'm just a dog-faced soldier."

DIED. Lowell Thomas, 89, prolific journalist and pioneering broadcast commentator; of a heart attack; in Pawling, N.Y. Born in Woodington, Ohio, Thomas wrote for newspapers in Cripple Creek and Denver, Colo. In 1924 he published his first and most popular book, With Lawrence in Arabia. A flood of more than 50 titles followed. Beginning in 1930, Thomas combined the roles of globetrotter and radio network broadcaster with elan and energy. He hunted tigers in India, covered virtually every battlefront in World War II, and in 1949 met with the Dalai Lama in Tibet. Thomas began a new radio show in 1980 called The Best Years, with features on such notable senior citizens as Bob Hope and Picasso. Said Thomas: "The best years have been all of my years."

DIED. Roger Baldwin, 97, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong champion of individual freedom; of heart disease; in Ridgewood, N.J. The patrician but plain-living Baldwin worked as a probation officer, college professor, common laborer and executive secretary of the Civic League of St. Louis before joining with two New York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John T. Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925, won free-press rights for Jehovah's Witnesses in 1938 and defended neo-Nazis in recent years.

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