Divorced. Diana Rigg, 37, sultry, auburn-haired British actress of television's The Avengers, Broadway and London's West End; and Israeli Artist Menachem Gueffen, 45; after a two-year separation; in London.

Died. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, 75, founder and longtime director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University and past president of the American Sociological Association; of cancer; in Manhattan. Lazarsfeld got his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Vienna, and when he came to the U.S. in 1933, devoted himself to applying that discipline to sociology, psychology and market research. A pioneer in researching the effects of mass communication, he systematically studied, along with Frank Stanton, later president of CBS, the radio-listening habits of Americans in the '30s and '40s. Modern voter-projection methods grew out of his original studies of election behavior. For 29 years a professor at Columbia, Lazarsfeld was a lively and influential teacher who molded many of today's leading sociologists.

Died. Benjamin M. McKelway, 80, editor of the Washington Star (1946-63); of kidney failure; in Washington, D.C. A soft-spoken North Carolinian, McKelway joined the Star as a reporter in 1921. As its editor he was a champion of civil rights, including the right of District of Columbia residents to vote. In 1957 he became the first non-publisher to be elected president of the Associated Press.

Died. Mark Vishniak, 93, author and TIME'S longtime Sovietologist (1946-58); in Manhattan. A law professor hi Moscow, Vishniak was five times arrested by Czar Nicholas II as an ardent Socialist Revolutionary. In 1917 he helped draw up the electoral laws for the provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and, as Vishniak later wrote, served in "the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia," which lasted just twelve hours before it was dissolved by Lenin. Escaping from the Bolsheviks, Vishniak fled to Paris and, after the beginning of World War II, to the U.S. In the course of his long career, Vishniak published 22 books and numerous articles in Russian, French and English.

Died. Luther A. Weigle, 95, dean of the Yale Divinity School (1928-49); in New Haven, Conn. He was chairman of the committee that wrote the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (1938-52), using new translations of ancient texts and updating the King James Version to modern usage ("mortify" became "put to death").

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