Divorced. Bob Dylan, 36, folk-rock superstar; and Sara Dylan, 34; after eleven years of marriage, five children; in Santa Monica, Calif. .

Died. Sue Kaufman, 50, journalist and author (Diary of a Mad Housewife Falling Bodies); in Manhattan. Diary, a novel that explored the vulnerabilities and frustrations of a sophisticated young couple trying to make it in Manhattan, was later a successful movie.

Died. Velma ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston, 65, redoubtable leader of the campaign to preserve wild-horse herds in the West; apparently of cancer; in Reno. Johnston's lobbying efforts resulted in the 1959 "Wild Horse Annie Law," a federal statute prohibiting the hunting of wild horses from aircraft and trucks, and the 1971 "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act," which gave the animals further protection. She was president of both WHOA (Wild Horse Organized Assistance Inc.) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros.

Died. Walter Kennedy, 65, longtime (1963-75) commissioner of the National Basketball Association; of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. During his tenure, basketball became almost as popular as baseball and football, a competitive American Basketball Association was organized, and players became some of the highest-salaried men in the U.S.

Died. Irving H. Saypol, 71, justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was federal prosecutor in the 1951 espionage-conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; of cancer; in Manhattan. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Saypol also supervised cases against Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and top U.S. Communist leaders.

Died. Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, 81, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's ex-King Carol; in Estoril, Portugal. Daughter of a Jewish pharmacist, Lupescu, a divorcee, met the already married Prince Carol in 1924 and became his highly publicized mistress. When Carol's father ordered her out of the country, Carol left too, renouncing the throne. He came back as King in 1930, and Magda soon joined him, reviled as the "Jewish Pompadour" in the increasingly anti-Semitic climate. Under pressure from the Nazis, the couple fled Rumania in 1940, moving first to Mexico and then to Brazil, where Carol married her in 1947. After Carol's death m 1953, Lupescu lived quietly in a Portuguese villa.

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