MARRIED. Diana Rigg, 43, alluring British actress (Broadway's Jumpers and The Misanthrope) who also played TV's Emma Peel in The Avengers; and Archie Stirling, 40, Scottish businessman; both for the second time; in New York City.

DIED. Raymond ("Buddy") Parker, 68, mild-mannered former Detroit Lions head coach who transformed a woeful, second-division football team into a gridiron juggernaut, winning the national championship in 1952 and 1953; of complications from a ruptured ulcer; in Kaufman, Texas. Parker is credited with the development of the two-minute drill, a predetermined series of plays used near the end of a half or a game.

DIED. Sonny Greer, 78, flashy, exuberant percussionist who was the drummer in Duke Ellington's original band, and played with him for 30 years; in New York City. "I gave him a line of jive that set him back on his heels," Greer said about his first meeting with Ellington. "From that time on we were tight."

DIED. Benjamin Feingold, 81, controversial West Coast pediatrician and allergist who believed that the erratic behavior of hyperkinetic children could be modified by removing food additives from their diets; in San Francisco. Feingold, an administrator for 30 years at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, said that half of the country's estimated 3 million hyperactive children could be helped by his additive-free "Feingold diet."

DIED. Goodman Ace, 83, droll doyen of comedy writers who created scripts for Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart, Perry Como and Danny Kaye from the 1940s to the 1960s; in New York City. He wrote, directed and acted in Easy Aces, a popular radio comedy from 1928 to 1945, which featured his wife Jane as a dippy mangier of language ("a ragged individualist," "up at the crank of dawn"). Ace, who always greeted his friends with a joke, asked that his tombstone be inscribed: "No flowers, please. I'm allergic."

DIED. Mario Praz, 85, protean scholar who ranged expertly through English literature, philology, art and antiquarianism; in Rome. Praz, who taught for 32 years at the University of Rome, wrote the highly acclaimed The Romantic Agony, a study of sadism in literature.

DIED. Ed Fitzgerald, 89, chatty, erudite radio veteran who teamed with his wife Pegeen 43 years ago to start one of the first husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera verite, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences.

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