DIED. PAUL DELOUVRIER, 80, French civil servant who was Governor of Algeria in the waning days of French colonial rule, then oversaw the modernization of the Paris region during the economic boom of the 1960s; in Provins. In 1958 Charles de Gaulle picked Delouvrier to head the French administration in Algeria. For three years he sought to quell the Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump.'' As the top official of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, he did just that. With his vision of satellite towns around the capital, interconnecting highways, a suburban rail link to the city and a more efficient system of municipal boundaries, Delouvrier developed a Paris that is often cited as a model of modern planning.

DIED. MEHDI BAZARGAN, 87, Iranian academic whose lifelong campaign for democracy culminated in his brief premiership after the Islamic revolution; in Zurich. An engineering professor, Bazargan led the National Resistance Movement, which accused the Shah of human-rights violations. Imprisoned several times for his activism, Bazargan allied himself with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who made him Prime Minister of the provisional government after the Shah was ousted, in 1979. Bazargan's relationship with Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a power struggle, and Bazargan resigned just nine months later. ``The government has been a knife with no blade,'' he complained. Bazargan remained in politics, leading the Liberation Movement, the only officially recognized opposition party.

DIED. MIGUEL TORGA, 87, Portugal's most admired contemporary writer; in Coimbra. A practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against men, I fought against God, I fought against myself,'' he wrote. ``I have one consolation: although defeated, I was able to reach the end of the adventure in the purity with which I entered it.''

DIED. ADOLF BUTENANDT, 91, German scientist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work on hormones; in Munich. Beginning in 1929, Butenandt isolated a number of previously unknown sex hormones, including progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. The knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple in Asian and Australian households; in Sydney. Working for the Swiss food giant Nestle, Mayne spent four years experimenting before he perfected a recipe for the Milo powder mix that Nestle launched in 1934. Today 90,000 tons of Milo worth $420 million are sold each year in 30 countries.