DIED. Luigi Petroselli, 49, typographer's son who joined the Italian Communist Party at age 19 and rose to become the first Communist to serve as mayor of Rome; of a heart attack; in Rome. Affectionately nicknamed "Joe Bananas" because of his twisted smile and boxer-like stance, the popular Petroselli, who took office in 1979, enhanced Rome's amenities by turning an area near the Coliseum into a Sundays-only pedestrian mall and instituting summer evening presentations of music, films and plays.

DIED. Gloria Grahame, 55, sultry blond movie actress who frequently portrayed the unsavory "other woman" or calculating tart in strong supporting roles opposite such stars as Olivia de Havilland (Not as a Stranger, 1955) and Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear, 1952); of cancer; in New York City. Grahame won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing a frivolous Southern belle in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

DIED. Heinz Kohut, 68, controversial Vienna-born psychoanalyst who broke with Freudian orthodoxy and attracted a cult following with his "self-psychology," which insisted that the analyst should bolster a healthy narcissism in patients and not dwell on the traditional Oedipal conflicts; of heart disease; in Chicago.

DIED. Fred Lindstrom, 75, baseball Hall of Fame member who broke in with the pennant-winning 1924 New York Giants at 18, becoming the youngest player ever to appear in the World Series, and racked up a career batting average of .311 in 13 seasons (his best year: 1930, when he hit a torrid .379); after a long illness; in Chicago. After retiring as a player, Lindstrom spent 13 years as baseball coach at Northwestern University.

DIED. Dexter M. Bullard, 83, psychiatrist and medical director from 1931 to 1969 of the Chestnut Lodge mental hospital in Rockville, Md., which pioneered in the use of psychoanalytic treatment for psychotic patients, instead of custodial care; in Rockville. Chestnut Lodge, founded in 1910 by Bullard's father, Dr. Ernest Bullard, was the setting for the 1964 novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by onetime Patient Joanne Greenberg.

DIED. Edmondo ("Papa") Zacchini, 87, Italian-born circus clown credited with developing the perilous, modern "human cannonball" act in 1922; in Tampa. Zacchini broke his right leg the first time he used a spring-powered cannon to hurl him 20 ft When he came to the U.S. to join the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus in 1930, he had already designed compressed-air cannons that could send him or one of his six brothers flying 100 ft through the air, although by the time he stopped performing the stunt in 1934 he had suffered four other leg fractures.

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