Died. Nathan Leopold, 66, who with Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it in 1924; of a heart attack; in San Juan. Both brilliant graduate students and the offspring of wealthy Chicago businessmen, Leopold and Loeb fancied themselves Nietzschean "supermen"-a notion that they set out to prove by carefully planning the kidnap-execution of a random victim. The killers were spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment "plus 99 years" after Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow made pioneering use of psychiatric testimony. Loeb was slashed to death in a 1936 prison fight, but Leopold became a model prisoner at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary. He was paroled in 1958 and migrated to Puerto Rico, where he married and became administrator of the island's only leprosy hospital.

Died. "Prince" Mike Romanoff, eightyish, Hollywood's reigning restaurateur-raconteur for more than two decades; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. That no one knew Romanoff's precise age is a fitting footnote to the life of a legendary impostor who at various times passed himself off as Rasputin's assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with the Oxbridge accent migrated West in 1927. In Hollywood, Romanoff was accepted as an off-camera actor in an actor's town; he opened his first restaurant there in 1939. "No one," he once said, "has ever discovered the truth about me-not even myself."

Died. Dr. Paul Niehans, 88, the Swiss surgeon who won both reputation and fortune by trying to lead his celebrity patients to the fountain of youth; in Montreux, Switzerland. In 1931 Niehans developed his so-called "cellular therapy," in which particles of lamb embryos were injected into the patient; he claimed that the treatment would retard the aging process, and cure almost everything from homosexuality to heart disease. Though viewed with suspicion by many fellow doctors, Niehans counted among his grateful patients Pope Pius XII and Gloria Swanson.

Died. Lord Oaksey, 90, the brusque British jurist who, as president of the International Military Tribunal, dominated the Nuremberg trials; in Malmes-bury, England. Widely known for his sense of courtroom propriety, Lord Oaksey, then Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, provided a dramatic conclusion to the proceedings when he imposed the death sentence on twelve of the 22 major Nazi defendants.

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