DIED. Andrei Amalrik, 42, exiled Russian dissident and human rights advocate; of injuries received in a collision as he was driving to attend meetings in conjunction with the Helsinki conference in Madrid; near Guadalajara, Spain. A historian and author of the 1970 book Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, in which he predicted the downfall of the Kremlin regime, Amalrik was twice exiled to Siberia before being pressured in 1976 to emigrate to the West, where he has lived in The Netherlands, the U.S. and France. When he was sentenced in 1970 to three years in prison, he wrote the court: "To sentence ideas to criminal punishment, whether they be true or false, seems to me to be a crime in itself."

DIED. Steve McQueen, 50, ruggedly handsome actor whose portrayals of cool, self-assured loners made him a leading Hollywood star of the '60s and '70s; of a heart attack after undergoing surgery for removal of a cancerous tumor; in Juarez, Mexico. A graduate of a reform school and a Marine brig, McQueen was typecast for his tough roles, whether leading a prison escape (Papillon), masterminding a daring caper (The Thomas Crown Affair) or driving through a breakneck chase (Bullitt). His screen persona exemplified grace under pressure; he raised his fists but never his voice. He revealed last month that he was suffering from mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer.

DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif.

DIED. Nevill Coghill, 81, leading Chaucer scholar whose 1951 modern English version of The Canterbury Tales remains the standard translation; in Cheltenham, England. A fellow in English at Oxford University from 1925 to 1966, Coghill tutored precocious undergraduates like W.H. Auden and directed several plays for the Oxford University Dramatic Society, including a 1966 production of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

DIED. Laurence Marshall, 91, electronics entrepreneur who founded the Raytheon Co. in 1922 and built it into a diversified company that played an important role in the development of radar, the Hawk missile and the microwave oven; in Cambridge, Mass. Upon his retirement in 1950, Marshall fulfilled a lifelong interest in anthropology by taking his family on an expedition to study the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, an adventure later recounted in The Harmless People (1959) by his daughter, Elizabeth, and The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) by his wife Lorna.

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