Died. Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, 69, Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, who in the 1963 papal election was a strong candidate to succeed John XXIII; of a heart attack; in Venice. Urbani, a moderate-conservative, took a middle position on many of the issues dividing the College of Cardinals, and his greatest attribute as a papabile was that he offended fewest of the church's factions. In the final balloting, the vote went to a progressive, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, who now reigns as Paul VI.

Died. Rex Ingram, 73, veteran black actor, whose resonant voice and commanding figure graced dozens of plays (The Emperor Jones, Cabin in the Sky, Porgy) and Hollywood films, most notably when he played De Lawd in 1936's The Green Pastures; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. Seymour Weiss, 73, a grand vizier of Louisiana Kingfish Huey Long's political empire; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge. A onetime New Orleans barbershop manager, Weiss was the man to see about practically everything once his friend Long became Governor in 1928; he ladled out patronage, determined how party funds would be spent --or misspent--and served as Long's most trusted adviser. So entrenched did Weiss become that he remained a power after Long's 1935 assassination--until 1940, when he was finally put behind bars for mail fraud.

Died. Fairfield Osborn, 82, crusading conservationist and from 1940 to 1968 president of the New York Zoological Society; in Manhattan. A wildlife enthusiast with a flair for showmanship --he once attended luncheon with a skunk, a chimpanzee and a ring-tailed lemur in tow--Osborn was among the earliest campaigners against wanton killing of animals, pollution and the many ways that man has of hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running such a busy race for food, space and employment for even greater numbers that we are forgetting the purpose of it all--a better living for human beings?"

Died. The Most. Rev. Bernard Sheil, 83, Roman Catholic crusader for social and civil rights (see RELIGION).

Died. Robert Greenlease, 87, central figure in one of recent history's most spectacular kidnapings, who in 1953 paid $600,000 ransom for the return of his young son Bobby, only to learn that he had been brutally murdered before the ransom was delivered; of pneumonia; in Mission Hills, Kans.

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