EXPECTING. Amy Irving, 31, sloe-eyed actress (Yentl, TV's The Far Pavilions) who plays a pregnant woman in her upcoming film Mickey and Maude; and Steven Spielberg, 36, everybody's favorite cinematic exploiter of childhood fears and fancies (E.T., Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom): their first child; early next summer. The couple have no current plans to wed.

SEEKING RENATURALIZATION. Zola Budd, 18, bashful, barefoot, adopted British runner whose dreams of Olympic glory ended in defeat and pain when she collided with American Archrival Mary Decker; in an application to regain the South African citizenship she so swiftly surrendered last spring in order to compete in Los Angeles as a Briton and circumvent the Olympic ban on her country's athletes; in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The move effectively ends her international running career and the lucrative endorsement deals that might have accompanied it.

DIED. Elmer W. Engstrom, 83, chief executive of the RCA Corp. from 1961 to 1968, who during his 39-year career with the company married the skills of an electrical engineer and manager to pioneer in the scientific development of modern electronic communications, including radio, radar, motion-picture sound and, especially, both black-and-white and color television; in Hightstown, N.J.

DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage--Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s.

DIED. Marcel Moyse, 95, celebrated French flutist who premiered works by Stravinsky and Ravel, wrote more than 30 comprehensive books on flute technique and was an influential teacher into his 90s. He passed on the playing style of the great 19th century French School to several of today's virtuosi, among them France's Jean-Pierre Rampal, who called Moyse "the king," and Ireland's James Galway, who claimed him as "my guru" in Brattleboro, Vt.