Married. Michael Wilding Jr., 17, Actress Elizabeth Taylor's son by her second marriage (see PEOPLE).

Married. Christopher Plummer, 40, Canadian actor (The Royal Hunt of the Sun); and Elaine Taylor, 24, British actress whom he met while filming Lock Up Your Daughters!; he for the third time; in Montreal.

Died. Janis Joplin, 27, heroine of a Now tragedy for the rock generation (see MUSIC).

Died. Alan D. Gruskin, 65, Manhattan art dealer and founder of the prestigious Midtown Galleries; of complications following a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting in 1932, Gruskin earned a reputation as a vigorous champion of contemporary American art; his one-man shows were the launching points for such prominent artists as William Palmer, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arline Wingate and Herbert Ferber.

Died. Henry William Simon, 68, musicologist and vice president and executive editor of Simon & Schuster book publishers until his retirement in 1967; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A brother of the publishing firm's cofounder, Simon was noted for his knowledge of opera, authored A Treasury of Grand Opera and Festival of Opera, and maintained that "the best of grand operas are the most enduring and most popular of all stage works."

Died. Carl W. Ackerman, 80, newsman and longtime (1931-56) dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a reporter, Ackerman had his share of scoops, notably the first substantial account in 1918 of the execution of Russia's Czar Nicholas II and family. But Ackerman's greatest contribution was at Columbia, where he transformed an undistinguished school into a premier training ground for his profession. Journalism's best-known figures (among them, Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woollcott and Douglas Southall Freeman) came to lecture; working newsmen were brought in to teach copy editing, headline writing, editorial and magazine writing, and photography. The creation of a first-class newsroom gave students a sense of the pace and tension on a big-city daily.

Died. Edward Wilson, 84, Scottish-born illustrator of more than 70 books, mostly classic adventure tales, beginning with Iron Men and Wooden Ships in 1924 and including such perennials as Two Years Before the Mast, Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Journey to the Center of the Earth; of heart disease; in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

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