Married. William C. (for Creed) Wampler, 27, newspaperman turned Republican Congressman from Virginia, and youngest member of Congress; and Mary Elizabeth Baker, 22, pretty, blue-eyed daughter of Tennessee's Republican U.S. Representative Howard H. Baker; in Huntsville, Tenn.

Divorced. By Ella Fitzgerald, 35, buxom Negro jazz songstress (A Tisket, A Tasket): her second husband, Bass Fiddle Player Ray Brown, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Nicolai Berezowsky, 53, prize-winning Russian-born composer (Symphony No. 4 and the children's opera, Babar the Elephant) and veteran guest conductor; of undetermined causes; in Manhattan.

Died. Darrell Fancourt, 65, famed British D'Oyly Carte bass-baritone, best known for his title role in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, which he sang more than 3,000 times; in London.

Died. Gaetano Merola, 72, Neapolitan-born founder-director of the San Francisco Opera Company; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Conductor Merola went to San Francisco in 1921, survived two years in money-losing concert ventures to cajole Nob Hill society and ordinary citizens into backing their own city opera company. He launched his first season in 1923, prospered thereafter.

Died. Carl Ritter, 83, urbane hotelman-host to six decades of European kings and U.S. millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany's newest royalty: Ruhr industrialists and movie stars.

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