SEEKING DIVORCE. Jack Haley Jr., 44, movie producer (That's Entertainment) and television executive; from Liza Minnelli, 32, explosive Broadway entertainer (The Act) and film actress (Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo); after 3 1/2 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

DIED. Frank Tallman, 59, Hollywood's top stunt pilot, who crashed countless old "Jennys" into barns and mountains without mishap; in a private-plane accident while trying to land in a violent rainstorm; in Santa Ana, Calif. A naval aviator during World War II, Tallman barnstormed throughout the next two decades in a legendary partnership, called Tallmantz, with Pilot Paul Mantz, who also died in a crash. The proceeds of Tallman's daredevil work in movies (Catch-22, The Carpetbaggers) helped him build a personal collection of classic planes.

DIED. Richard Lindner, 76, German-born painter whose brassy, cartoon-like and often sinister depictions of women had the bite of Brecht and the machine-like surface of Leger; in Manhattan. Lindner, a Jew, escaped the Nazis by fleeing to France and then to the U.S., where he worked as an illustrator until his own work became successful in the 1960s. His favorite subject--woman--he saw as "bursting her corsets like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting out."

DIED. Lucius DuBignon Clay, 80, uncompromising four-star general who directed the rebuilding of Germany after World War II and masterminded the Berlin airlift; in Chatham, Mass. A West Point graduate with a flair for administration, Clay held a number of military engineering posts before spearheading the U.S.'s entire military supply system during World War II. In 1947 he became military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, where he stabilized the country's economy and helped formulate a constitution guaranteeing democratic elections. Confronted by a Russian siege of Berlin in June 1948, and ordered not to use military strength, Clay coordinated a massive daily supply shuttle by air to the blockaded city until the Soviets retreated. After retiring from the Army in 1949, he became chairman of the Continental Can Co.

DIED. Frank Raymond Leavis, 82, grand panjandrum of British literary criticism; in Cambridge, England. As a young instructor at Cambridge University, Leavis scandalized his colleagues by daring to lecture on D.H. Lawrence. His reputation grew with the founding in 1932 of Scrutiny, a literary quarterly that measured stringently the moral quality of prose and dismissed both Joyce and Auden for their modernism. An enormously influential figure, he fought his last great battle against C.P. Snow, whom he called "portentously ignorant" for urging the literary world to recognize science.

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