Engaged. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, 29, whose motto is "For Sweden--In Keeping With The Times"; and West German-Brazilian Commoner Silvia Renate Sommerlath, 32, a protocol official for the Olympic Games.

Separated. Johnny Bench, 28, All-Star catcher of the world champion Cincinnati Reds; and Model Vickie Chesser Bench, 26; after a year's marriage, no children.

Died. Louis Edward Sissman, 48, poet and essayist who was able, he said, to "compartmentalize" his mind and alternate between writing belles-lettres and advertising copy; after a ten-year battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Boston.

Died. Sidney E. Rolfe, 54, economist, who was among the first to argue for the now widely accepted monetary policy of floating international exchange rates; of cancer; in East Hampton, N.Y.

Died. John William Wright Patman, 82, 24-term Texas Democratic Congressman and dean of the House of Representatives who, before his overthrow in last year's Young Turk revolt, had served as chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee since 1963; of pneumonia; in Bethesda, Md. Baptist Patman, a vintage populist from Patman's Switch, in the northeast Texas cotton country, never flagged in his hostility to big banks, big money and high interest rates. Always a storm center, and often accused of dictatorial tactics, Patman helped win World War I veterans a $3 billion bonus in 1936; was coauthor of the Robinson-Patman Act, designed to prevent chain stores from driving small competitors out of business by temporarily slashing prices; pushed through the Employment Act of 1946, which made "maximum employment" a national objective and established the Council of Economic Advisers; and was a principal author of legislation creating federal credit unions and the Small Business Administration.

Died. The Duke of Leinster, 83, premier peer of Ireland, who in his youth squandered his claim to one of Britain's largest fortunes, went bankrupt three times and lived out his last days, according to his fourth wife, "distraught, depressed and utterly penniless"; in a cramped two-room London apartment.

Died. Attilio Piccioni, 83, anti-Fascist co-founder of Italy's Christian Democrat Party, who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1954 when his jazz-pianist son was falsely implicated in a scandal involving sex, narcotics and the death of a party girl, Wilma Montesi; in Rome.

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