DIED. John L. Marshall, 43, nationally known orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist who served as a consultant to the U.S. Olympic ski team; in the crash of a private plane taking him to the Winter Games at Lake Placid, N.Y.

DIED. David Janssen, 48, craggily handsome actor who played tough, terse, but vulnerable heroes like the wrongly convicted doctor who pursued his wife's killer for four years in the ABC-TV hit series The Fugitive; of a heart attack; in Malibu, Calif.

DIED. Muriel Rukeyser, 66, American poet of social protest; of a heart attack; in New York City. After dropping out of Vassar in 1932, she published a poem on the Scottsboro trial (in which nine black Alabama youths were accused of raping two white girls) that foreshadowed a concern with injustice that remained the theme of her poetry and her life. Though critics complained that her "message became more important to her than [its] expression," when her Collected Poems appeared in 1978 they also praised her devotion to the dissident muse named in her first book, Theory of Flight (1935), as "Not Sappho, Sacco./ Rebellion pioneered among our lives."

DIED. Samuel Berger, 68, laconic career diplomat; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1961-64), "Silent Sam" failed in his efforts to persuade Seoul's military regime to establish democratic institutions, but succeeded spectacularly in helping to lay the groundwork for the country's industrial boom. As deputy to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in South Viet Nam (1968-72), he administered a policy he described as "one of buying as much time as we could" after the U.S. had abandoned its doomed attempt "to win the war with money and people instead of brains."

DIED. Yakov Malik, 73, dapper, irascible Soviet diplomat who twice served as Moscow's United Nations delegate; in Moscow. He is chiefly remembered, at least in the West, for boycotting the Security Council to protest its refusal in 1950 to recognize Communist China; this helped clear the way for the U.N. to assist South Korea against the Soviet-backed North Korean invasion. A dependable apparatchik, he once told a Western diplomat: "I must obey my instructions."

DIED. A. S. Mike Monroney, 77, tall, amiable Oklahoma Democrat who in the course of a 30-year (1939-69) House and Senate career became known as Capitol Hill's "Mr. Aviation"; of a heart attack and pneumonia; in Rockville, Md. He earned the nickname because of his efforts to promote the growth of the U.S. air-travel industry, which included the introduction in 1958 of the bill that created what is now the Federal Aviation Administration.

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