MARRIED. Pat Benatar, 29, Grammy Award-winning best female rock singer (Fire and Ice); and Neil Geraldo, 30, her lead guitar player and co-producer of her last album, Precious Time; she for the second time, he for the first; in Maui, Hawaii.

DIED. Edward Franklin, 53, medical researcher whose pioneering studies into the synthesis and metabolism of proteins in the body increased the understanding of the aging process; of septicemia; in New York City. An authority on immunology, Franklin also did outstanding work on lymph-system cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.

DIED. Murray Kaufman, 60, alias "Murray the K," zany, hip-talking disc jockey whose comic hysteria on New York City rock 'n' roll radio programs made him a cult figure for millions of teen-agers during the 1960s; of cancer; in Los Angeles. One of the first and best of rock's high-pitched, jabbering deejays, Kaufman punctuated his broadcasts with shrieks, howls and a miscellany of sounds: trains crashing, cavalry charging, crazed laughter. He helped promote the Beatles during their first visit to the U.S. in 1964, and appeared in the rock quartet's second film Help! (1965). He often referred to himself as the "fifth Beatle." Blessed with prodigious energy, Kaufman is credited with bringing early attention to such performers as the Rolling Stones, the Who, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Darin and Tony Orlando.

DIED. Virginia Bruce, 71, willowy, ash-blond actress of the '30s and '40s who played opposite such leading men as Robert Taylor, Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Often cast as a glamorous schemer, Bruce scored an early triumph in 1932 as an adulterous maid who shared her favors with villainous Chauffeur John Gilbert in Downstairs (she married him the same year). A veteran of 55 films, Bruce is best remembered for her portrayal of a chorus girl in The Great Ziegfeld (1936).

DIED. Gershom Scholem, 84, world's foremost authority on Jewish mysticism; in Jerusalem. A faculty member of Israel's Hebrew University, the Berlin-born Scholem made a respected discipline of the study of the Kabbalah, a system that uses metaphysics and mathematics to interpret Scripture.

DIED. Oscar Stauffer, 95, onetime head of a Midwestern communications empire, whose considerable political clout helped engineer the G.O.P. presidential nomination of Alf M. Landon in 1936; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stauffer Communications, now made up of 31 newspaper and broadcasting properties in eleven states, was launched in 1915, when Stauffer purchased a Kansas weekly paper with money he had earned as a reporter.

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