Divorced. Alvin Ray ("Pete") Rozelle, 46, drumbeating, tutelary commissioner of the National Football League for the past twelve years; and Jane Coupe Rozelle, 44; after 23 years of marriage (four of separation), one daughter; in New York City. -

Died. William Fitts Ryan, 50, Congressman from Manhattan who helped found New York's Democratic Party reform movement in the 1950s and who, during the past twelve years in the House, was among the earliest opponents of the war and a staunch advocate of such causes as women's rights, mainland China's admission to the U.N. and reduced military spending; of cancer; in New York City.

Died. Eugene A. Valencia, 51, World War II Navy air ace; of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he was attending a convention of American Fighter Aces. In 1945, Lieut. Valencia led a four-man team that destroyed 50 airborne Japanese planes in a three-month period without suffering any losses or damage. He was personally credited with bagging a record 7 1/2 planes in a single day, scored a total of 23 kills, and was awarded the Navy Cross for his action in the South Pacific.

Died. Akim Tamiroff, 72, versatile character actor with tragicomic phiz and Volga-rich voice; in Palm Springs, Calif. Trained at the Moscow Art Theater, Tamiroff accompanied its repertory troupe on a tour of the U.S. in 1923 and stayed behind to act on Broadway. In 1932 he moved to Hollywood to begin a long film career that spanned more than 60 films. Although he never lost his thick Russian accent, Tamiroff plausibly played characters of nearly every nationality and won two Academy Award nominations for supporting actor--as the sinister Chinese warlord in The General Died at Dawn, and as the cowardly Spanish guerrilla leader Pablo in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Died. Robert Casadesus, 73, French composer and pianist, best known for his pure, elegantly phrased interpretations of Mozart, Rameau, Debussy and Ravel; of cancer of the pancreas; in Paris. Born in Paris and trained at the piano from the age of four, Casadesus composed more than 60 works of his own including six symphonies. More widely recognized as a performer, he made 3,000 concert appearances during his 50-year career, as well as at least 30 recordings. Included in his concert repertory were several seldom performed compositions, three-piano concertos that Casadesus played with his wife Gaby and elder son Jean, who died in an automobile accident earlier this year.

Died. Fritz Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo during an Atlantic storm.

Died. Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, 77, former air commander of the Pacific Fleet (1949-52), who earned the Legion of Merit after the battle of Truk in 1944, when he rigged a sail on the forecastle of his torpedoed and crippled aircraft carrier Intrepid, shifted his planes forward to catch the wind, and guided the ship to safety at Pearl Harbor; of blood clots in the lung; in Chula Vista, Calif.

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