DIED. Temple Hornaday Fielding, 69, guardian of American tourists for 35 years, whose opinionated Travel Guide to Europe has sold some 3 million copies since 1948 and spawned many, lesser Fielding guides; of a heart attack; in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. With help from a small staff and his wife Nancy, he meticulously updated findings that concentrated on Europe's creature comforts, not culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom he called "surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians."

DIED. Kenneth Clark, 79, genial and erudite British art historian, whose 1969 BBC (and PBS-aired) television series Civilization brought him transatlantic praise and popularity; in Kent, England. An unhappy only child of the idle rich, Clark spent a post-Oxford two years in Florence steeping himself in Renaissance art. At 30, he became the youngest director in the history of London's National Gallery. Between knighthood (1938) and the award of a life peerage (1969), Lord Clark wrote a score of books, maintained heady friendships (Winston Churchill, Walter Lippmann, Pablo Picasso), and held an array of academic titles (Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford) and cultural posts (founding chairman of the Independent Television Authority). "K," as chums called him, was self-deprecating in a 1974 autobiography: "My whole life might be described as one long, harmless confidence trick."

DIED. Eric Hoffer, 80, the crusty, self-taught longshoreman-philosopher whose 1951 work The True Believer dissected fanaticism; in San Francisco. An itinerant laborer for much of his early life, Hoffer was widely known in the '60s through his syndicated newspaper column. He gave it up in 1970--"I don't want to die barking"--and became "conversationalist at large" at the University of California at Berkeley.

DIED. Roger J. Traynor, 83, influential chief justice of the California Supreme Court who served for 30 years on what was widely considered the nation's most aggressive and progressive state court; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Appointed in 1940 and named chief justice in 1964, he wrote more than 900 opinions, many of which boldly abandoned precedents and, especially in expanding criminal defendants' rights, anticipated later federal court rulings.

DIED. James Van Der Zee, 96, celebrated black photographer who recorded the faces and events of New York City's Harlem for more than five decades, but achieved wider recognition only in 1969, after a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, "Harlem on My Mind"; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Van Der Zee became a photographer in Harlem during World War I, shooting weddings, funerals and back-to-Africa parades as well as thousands of carefully composed portraits. Sadly, his "discovery" by the public and critics coincided with severe financial distress: evicted from his studio only weeks later, Van Der Zee lost much of his huge, priceless collection of prints and negatives and was forced to live on public assistance. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.