Died. Philip Rahv, 64, Russian-born literary critic who helped found, in 1934, and edit, until 1969, the leftist literary-political magazine Partisan Review; following a brief illness; in Cambridge, Mass. A professor of English at Brandeis University since 1957, Rahv was the author of three collections of essays, most notably Literature and the Sixth Sense (1969).

Died. Gerard Peter Kuiper, 68, astronomer and director of the unmanned Ranger lunar photographic missions that helped pinpoint landing sites for the Apollo moon shots; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. As a director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, he made a number of important discoveries, including satellites of both Uranus (1948) and Neptune (1949). When, in the early 1960s, other scientists were concerned that a spacecraft landing on the moon would sink in an ocean of dust, Kuiper correctly described the lunar surface as resembling "crunchy snow."

Died. Harold Bingham Lee, 74, president of the 3.3 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; of lung and heart failure; in Salt Lake City. Lee rose to prominence in church circles as a welfare worker during the Depression, eventually developed the program into a $20 million enterprise. Named a member of the church's governing Council of the Twelve Apostles in 1941, Lee was one of the youngest men ever to become "prophet, seer, and revelator" of the Mormons. Lee succeeded 95-year-old Joseph Fielding Smith upon his death 18 months ago.

Died. Ismet Inoenue, 89, first Prime Minister of modern Turkey; of a heart attack; in Ankara. When the Sultan was deposed and Turkey became a republic in 1923, Kemal Atatuerk as President and Inoenue as Prime Minister abolished the semireligious office of Caliph and began to westernize the country's educational, legal, military and industrial systems. Inoenue was elected President in 1938 and served until his defeat in the election of 1950. From 1961 to 1965 he was once again Premier; after leaving office he continued to influence his nation's politics as leader of Turkey's Republican People's Party.

Died. Gabriel Voisin, 93, pioneer French aeronautical engineer; near Tournus, France. Voisin claimed that his biplane, which took off under its own power and flew a one-kilometer circuit in 1908, made the world's first valid aircraft flight. (The Wright Brothers in 1903 had used a catapult-assisted takeoff.) Voisin built 10,400 aircraft for the Allies during World War I.

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