Married. Peter Stanley Firestone, 24, third-generation heir to the Firestone rubber fortune, son of Roger, youngest of the four brothers who head the country's 32nd biggest corporation; and Julie Nelson, 23, Scottsdale, Ariz., socialite; in Riverfalls, Wis.

Died. Captain Theodore Freeman, 34, one of the 14 men chosen in the third group of U.S. astronauts last October, first astronaut to die since the program started in 1959; when his T-38 jet trainer crashed near Ellington Air Force Base, in Houston.

Died. John Fred ("Mr. Fred") Frederics, 58, Manhattan milliner who teamed with John ("Mr. John") Harburger in 1929 to become the U.S.'s maddest hatters, charging up to $1,000 for their "creations," in 1949 went off on his own to make pyramids and be-flowered cartwheels for such as Hedda Hopper (she has some 75) and Gloria Swanson, not to mention the slouch-brimmed felt behind which Garbo is forever hiding; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Harold Hitz Burton, 76, U.S.

Supreme Court justice from 1945 to 1958; of Parkinson's disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning headlines in 1950 when he wrote the opinion outlawing Jim Crow dining cars (the Negro table behind the curtain) on Southern railroads, one of the modern court's first major anti-segregation decisions.

Died. Max McGraw, 81, appliance manufacturer, founder of McGraw Electric Co., who in 1926 bought patents to the pop-up toasters then found only in restaurants, went on to make Toastmaster a household word and produce every manner of electrical home convenience, acquiring Thomas A. Edison Inc. in 1957 to become one of the U.S.'s biggest appliance makers; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Pierre Cartier, 86, Manhattan jeweler, grandson of the founder of the Paris original, who was sent across the Atlantic in 1907 to mine the U.S. market, quickly established himself as the purveyor of gems to America's rich and famous, displaying 24-carat charm, matchless discretion ("We are the confessor of our clients"), and some of the world's most dazzling baubles, among them the famed Thiers pearl necklace, purchased by Cartier from the Louvre in 1924 for $760,000; of uremia; in Geneva.

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