Died. Whitney M. Young, 49, executive director of the National Urban League (see THE NATION).

Died. Dr. Barry Wood, 60, onetime grid star and noted bacteriologist; of a heart attack; in Boston. Wood was one of the first to publish a paper on penicillin. Later he led in research on the mechanism by which white blood cells fight invading organisms. Wood was named vice president of Johns Hopkins University and hospital in 1955, heading its department of microbiology from 1959 until his death. He was to have received the Kober award, the Association of American Physicians' highest tribute, in May.

Died. Philo Taylor Farnsworth, 64. electronics prodigy who conceived and developed the techniques that made modern television possible; after a long illness; in Salt Lake City. Farnsworth was 15 when he formulated his theory for transmitting pictures electronically. Then he set about developing individual components. In 1927, he filed for the patent on a complete television system. Early financial backing came from James J. Pagan, a San Francisco banker, who studied Farnsworth's idea and remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea, but someone ought to put money into it."

Died. Harold Lloyd, 77, comedian whose screen image of horn-rimmed incompetence made him Hollywood's highest-paid star in the 1920s; of cancer; in Hollywood. He usually played a feckless Mr. Average who triumphed over misfortune. "My character represented the white-collar middle class that felt frustrated but was always fighting to overcome its shortcomings," he once explained. Lloyd usually did his own stunt work, as in Safety Last (1923), in which he dangled from a clock high above the street; he was protected only by a wooden platform two floors below.

Died. Rockwell Kent, 88, noted artist and acerbic Socialist; in Plattsburg, N.Y. Poet Louis Untermeyer called him "not a person at all, but an organization." His first small success came in 1914 as an illustrator; Kent incorporated himself, sold shares in Artist Kent, Inc. and headed for Alaska. The resulting art was so successful that he bought the outstanding shares in himself and dissolved the corporation. His mature works, especially illustrations for volumes of Shakespeare, Melville, Whitman and Chaucer, have become collectors' items. An admirer of the Soviet Union, he had his passport revoked in 1950; when the Soviets awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967, he donated $10,000 of it to the Viet Cong. But, exclaimed Kent, "thank God I don't live there. If I did, and didn't trim my sails, I'd be liquidated."

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