Died. Nam Phuong, 49, last Empress of Viet Nam, convent-bred Cochin Chinese bride (in 1934) of Puppet Emperor Bao Dai, who used her imperial influence to further Roman Catholicism, lived apart from her playboy husband after his 1955 exile; of a heart attack; in Chabrignac, France.

Died. Group Captain Adolf Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 52, one of World War II's top air aces, South African merchant sailor who traded his sea legs for wings, bagged 35 Nazi planes as an R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, returned home to organize 250,000 veterans into the "Torch Commando," which disbanded in 1953 after an unsuccessful campaign to change the racist policies of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, a distant relative; of pneumonia; in Kimberley, South Africa.

Died. Reginald William Lockerbie Spooner, 60, Britain's best-known real-life sleuth and chief of Scotland Yard detectives since 1958, whose most celebrated case was the 1946 capture of Sex Murderer Neville Heath, and most recent assignment was the Great Train Robbery; of cancer; in London.

Died. Donald Monroe Casto, 65, Ohio builder, who in 1921 developed on the outskirts of Columbus what is generally recognized as the nation's first shopping center, almost went broke in the Depression, recouped after World War II with the biggest chain of shopping centers in the U.S. (among the links: the 105-acre Truman Corners Town and Country south of Kansas City, the 60-acre Miracle Mile in Detroit); of a heart attack; in Columbus.

Died. Carl Atwood Hatch, 73, Democratic Senator from New Mexico from 1933 to 1949, author of the 1939 and 1940 Hatch Acts, designed to prevent "pernicious political activities" in national campaigns; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque. The Hatch Acts limit annual party expenditures to $3,000,000, forbid all save top-level federal employees from politicking or being dunned for contributions. But campaign committees find ways to evade the ceiling, and wild horses cannot stop every good man, civil servant or no, from coming to the aid of his party.

Died. Henry Dinwoodey Moyle, 74, Salt Lake City millionaire and (since 1961) second-ranking officer of the 2,000,000-member Mormon Church, who sold his own oil company in 1947 to help administer the Latter-day Saints' formidable commercial empire, urging it to expand out of Utah into cattle ranches in Florida, Texas, Canada and Australia, choice Manhattan, London and Berlin real estate; of a heart attack; in Deer Park, Fla.

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