SEEKING DIVORCE. Angle Dickinson, 49, star of TV (Police Woman) and movies (Dressed to Kill); and Burt Bacharach, 51, composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, What the World Needs Now); after 15 years of marriage and four years of separation, one child, a daughter, Nikki, 14, whose custody Dickinson is requesting; in Los Angeles.

DIED. John Fischetti, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times whose acerbic drawings championed the downtrodden citizen while satirizing the mighty; of heart disease; in Chicago. The son of a barber in Brooklyn's Little Italy, Fischetti derived the title of his 1973 autobiography, Zinga, Zinga, Zal, from a cousin, who used the phrase to answer virtually all questions. "For me," wrote Fischetti, "the point of a political cartoonist is to take some of the zing out of the zinga, zinga, zas."

DIED. Boris Aronson, 81, Russian-born stage designer whose stylish, inventive sets for such Broadway shows as Cabaret and Zorba won him six Tony Awards; in Nyack, N.Y. An art student in Moscow and Paris before coming to New York in 1923, Aronson designed more than 100 theater, opera and ballet productions in 50 years, including a distinguished series of collaborations with Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures).

DIED. Mae West, 87, legendary sex queen of stage and screen; in Hollywood (see SHOW BUSINESS).

DIED. John W. McCormack, 88, "the fighting Irishman of South Boston" who rose to become Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives and was first in line to the presidency after John F. Kennedy's death; in Dedham, Mass. His 42-year congressional career was capped by passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

DEATH REVEALED. Willie Sutton, 79, master of meticulously planned bank robberies, whose ingenious disguises earned him the sobriquet "the Actor"; of a stroke; on Nov. 2; in Spring Hill, Fla. Sutton, who stole an estimated $2 million during a period of 35 years and broke out of three prisons before completing his final sentence in 1969, once said: "I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life."

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