Died. Richard B. Russell, 73, dean of the U.S. Senate (see THE NATION ).

Died. Harry F. Guggenheim, 80, philanthropist and industrialist, who with his wife founded Long Island's Newsday and turned it into the largest suburban daily (circ. 455,501) in the U.S.; in Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's pioneering research in rocketry. Recruited into public service on several occasions, Guggenheim served as Ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933, then during World War II went into naval aviation and rose to the rank of captain. By then he had already founded Newsday with an investment of $50,000 in 1940; the paper grew into a vast success in no small part because of the brilliant direction provided by his wife Alicia Patterson, who was its editor and publisher until her death in 1963. Guggenheim carried on for a while alone, then with former L.B.J. Aide Bill Moyers as publisher, until last May, when he sold his 51% interest in Newsday to the Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times.

Died. Antonio Cardinal Bacci, 85, the Vatican's leading Latin expert, who fought bitterly with Pope Paul VI over introduction of vernacular languages into the Mass; in Rome. When the Mass was revised in 1969, the conservative cardinal angrily and publicly labeled the new version near heretical. The outburst was not surprising for a churchman whose whole life was devoted to the unshakable conviction that Latin, far from being dead, was a "living and vital language for all cultivated persons." Over the years, Bacci brought out four editions of a Latin dictionary, including terms that did not exist in Caesar's day, and himself coined such gems as gummis salivaria (chewing gum) and barbara sahatio (the twist).

Died. Gilbert ("Broncho Billy") Anderson, 88, father of the movie horse opera; of a heart attack; in South Pasadena, Calif. Anderson did not know how to ride or shoot in 1903 when he appeared in The Great Train Robbery, which ran all of ten minutes and was the most successful and influential of the early story films. In 1907 he moved to California, where he directed, wrote and acted in some 375 westerns as Broncho Billy, a rough but noble Robin HoodrStyle desperado.

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