DIED. Dean Chenoweth, 44, daredevil boat racer and four-time national hydroplane champion; of head, neck and chest injuries when a gust of wind flipped his boat while it was traveling at 175 m.p.h. during a qualifying run for the annual Columbia Cup race; on the Columbia River near Pasco, Wash. Returning several times from retirement, the "Comeback Kid" had miraculously survived one crash after another. Eventually he became one of only seven competitors who lived long enough to win more than a dozen races.

DIED. David Carritt, 55. master sleuth of the old masters who rediscovered an unmatched array of rare and valuable paintings; of cancer; in London. Art historian, dealer and critic, Carritt had an unerring eye that enabled him to buy a misattributed Fragonard masterpiece at a public auction, under the noses of other top experts, at a tiny fraction of its present million-dollar value. "When you've become familiar with the work of a master, it's like recognizing a friend's handwriting," he once said. Among his finds were five Francesco Guardi canvases rolled up in an Irish country shed; two Tiepolo ceiling paintings, one in the drawing room of London's Egyptian embassy and the other at a golf club outside London; and a Caravaggio in an English country home. So renowned were his feats, it was said that financially hard-pressed British landowners dreamed of hearing the butler announce, "A Mr. Carritt to see you, my lord."

DIED. Gilbert Cant, 72, esteemed Lasker Award-winning medicine editor of TIME from 1949 to 1969, author of Male Trouble (1976), on prostate problems, and three books on the Navy in World War II; of a heart attack; in New York City.

DIED. Richard de Rochemont, 78, executive producer of 'The March of Time," for 17 years the most popular documentary film series in the U.S.; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Flemington, N.J. De Rochemont was credited with some of M.O.T.'s most memorable films, including The Story of the Vatican, the first full-length feature on the papal state made with the sanction of the Holy See.

DIED. Cathleen Nesbitt, 93, versatile British character actress whose career lasted 70 sparkling years on the London and Broadway boards; in London. "Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful," said the poet Rupert Brooke of Nesbitt at 24. Photographed by George Bernard Shaw, directed by the Shakespearean scholar Harley Granville-Barker, she began as an ingenue and ended in elegant dowager parts, most notably in the original My Fair Lady and the 1980-81 touring revival, which was her final appearance. "I haven't been known as a great actress," she said then. "But I've been a very successful one."

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