Separated. San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, 59; and Angelina Alioto, 59, his wife of 33 years. Mrs. Alioto startled her husband last year by disappearing for a 17-day tour of California missions during Alioto's unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, later chiding him publicly for neglecting her. Last week the mayor said he was startled once again, when a reporter phoned his office in midday to disclose that Angelina had filed for divorce, asking the court for alimony and a substantial chunk of Alioto's estimated $6 million estate.

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Died. Elijah Muhammad, 77, spiritual leader of the black separatist Nation of Islam; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago (see RELIGION).

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Died. Nikolai Bulganin, 79, cold war Soviet Premier (1955-58), protege of Stalin and Khrushchev; of undisclosed causes "after a serious protracted illness"; in Moscow (see THE WORLD).

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Died. General Wilhelm D. Styer, 81, commander of the U.S. Army in the Western Pacific in the final months of World War II; in Coronado, Calif. A 1916 graduate of West Point, Styer saw action against Pancho Villa's guerrillas in Mexico and in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917. While returning to Washington to join the Army General Staff in 1918, he survived the torpedoing of his troopship. In World War II, he served as a liaison officer with scientists developing the atomic bomb, witnessed the Japanese surrender in the Philippines, and headed the military tribunal that convicted Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita and sentenced him to death for wartime atrocities.

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Died. Marcel Grandjany, 83, French-born harpist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music; in Manhattan. Grandjany's gifts as performer and composer helped raise the harp from a musical decoration to a full-fledged solo instrument. Among his compositions: The Colorado Trail, Children's Hour, and Fantasy for Harp.

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Died. Lionel Tertis, 98, English viola virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers.

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