DIED. John Dinkeloo, 63, architect and engineer who, with associates Kevin Roche and the late Eero Saarinen, designed such celebrated works as the CBS Building in New York City, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Fredericksburg, Va.

DIED. Pamela Hansford Johnson, 69, British novelist, critic and playwright and the wife of Scientist-Novelist C.P. Snow for 30 years until his death in 1980; in London. A full-time writer from the age of 22, Johnson turned out 27 novels, the last, A Bonfire, to be published in the U.S. next month. Though her books did not sell as well as those written by Snow, her second husband, critics praised them for satirical wit and deft malice.

DIED. George Katona, 79, Hungarian-born economist who, as director of the economic behavior program in the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, instituted the first large-scale studies of consumer attitudes and spending patterns; in West Berlin.

DIED. John Knight, 86, tough, acerbic newspaperman who, as the founder and longtime editor of the Knight-Ridder group, led its expansion into one of the largest newspaper chains in the country; of a heart attack; in Akron. A former sportswriter and managing editor at the Akron Beacon Journal, Knight inherited the paper from his father in 1933 and used it as a base to build a thriving publishing empire that today includes four television stations and 34 daily newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of 25 million (among them: the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer). Until his retirement in 1976, he batted out a weekly column for his papers, "The Editor's Notebook," in which he took blunt, conservative stands on fiscal policy and Big Government but staunchly opposed U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The column won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Knight, who prized journalistic excellence and encouraged editorial policymakers on all his papers to go their own ways, once said: "There is no known substitute on the market for integrity and character, and no synthetic has ever been discovered for guts."

DIED. Zerna Sharp, 91, former first-grade teacher in La Porte, Ind., who created the concept for the Dick and Jane textbooks that for more than four decades helped teach American schoolchildren to read ("See me run. See Spot run. Oh, oh! This is fun."); in Frankfort, Ind. Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint."

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