MARRIED. Susan Atkins, 33, former Charles Manson family member who is serving a life sentence for her role in the 1969 slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others; and Donald Lee Leisure, 52, self-proclaimed Texas millionaire whom she met while hitchhiking in California in 1965; she for the first time (Laisure claims 35 previous marriages); in the chapel of the California Institute for Women in Frontera, Calif.

DIED. Vera-Ellen Rohe, 60, Cincinnati-born actress who, under the stage name Vera-Ellen, brought her well-scrubbed good looks and lissome dancing to a string of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood musicals, appearing opposite such stars as Gene Kelly (On the Town), Fred Astaire (Three Little Words) and Bing Crosby (White Christmas); of cancer, in Los Angeles.

DIED. Theodore Roszak, 74, Polish-born sculptor who was best known for the much maligned, and admired, 37-ft. aluminum eagle he created for the fac,ade of the U.S. embassy in London in 1960; of a heart attack; in New York City.

DIED. Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's master builder, a brilliant architect who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials.

DIED. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 82, maverick financier, mining tycoon, art collector and founder of the Hirshhorn Museum; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The Latvian-born Hirshhorn rose from penury to wealth through shrewd dealings in stocks, gold, uranium and oil, meanwhile amassing a high-quality hoard of 2,000 sculptures and 4,000 paintings valued at $50 million. He was persuaded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to donate his collection to establish the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., which the U.S. built eight years later at a cost of $15 million.

DIED. Alec Waugh, 83, author of more than 50 novels (A Spy in the Family), biographies (The Lipton Story) and travel books (The Sugar Islands) who labored for years in the shadow of his better-known brother Evelyn, until the publication in 1956 of his bestselling yarn of interracial love and intrigue in the Caribbean, Island in the Sun; in Tampa, Fla.

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