Divorced. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, who never seemed able to settle down after she got $5,000,000 of the family fortune as a 21st birthday present; and TV-Movie Director Sidney Lumet, 39; by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Lieut. Colonel James Cushing, 53, U.S. Army guerrilla leader who stayed behind on the Philippine island of Cebu after the Japanese occupation and in 1944 captured a Japanese admiral carrying plans for defense strategy, thus hastening the liberation of the islands; of a heart attack; in Manila. With the plans safely in Australia, Cushing disregarded orders by releasing the admiral to put a stop to a massacre of Cebu islanders by Japanese troops, and lost his rank, later restored.

Died. Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, 65, chairman of London's Hambros Bank Ltd., largest commercial bank in Europe, organizer of a 1941 parachute raid on laboratories carrying out Nazi nuclear experiments in Norway, wartime courier of secrets between British and American atomic scientists developing the atom bomb, and head of British underground operations in occupied Europe, for which he was knighted; following a hemorrhage; in London.

Died. Karl Knight Probst, 79, freelance consulting engineer who reportedly got $200 (his standard weekly fee) for turning out the boxy design for the bone-rattling, indestructible Jeep in seven days in 1940 after he was asked to build a sturdier vehicle than Germany's war-adapted Volkswagen; after a long illness; in Dayton.

Died. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 95, Negro philosopher and editor, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., since 1961 a card-carrying Communist; in Accra, Ghana. Du Bois won a Harvard Ph.D. in 1895, took an early lead in Negro agitation as head of the militant Niagara Movement; when it merged with the N.A.A.C.P. in 1909, he became the association's only Negro officer and editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over--of all things--his endorsement of Henry A. Wallace for President. Haughtily elegant, sporting a white goatee and pince-nez, he boasted of his French-Dutch-Negro mixed blood ("but, thank God, no Anglo-Saxon"), turned left with age, two years ago moved to Ghana to become director of the Nkrumah government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana, and joined the Communist Party, apologizing for having been so "long and slow" in confirming his Red faith.

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