MARRIED. John Osborne, 48, English playwright (Inadmissible Evidence) and screenwriter (Tom Jones); and Helen Dawson, 36, a sometime drama critic; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Tunbridge Wells, England.

DIED. Jorge de Sena, 58, Portugal's most distinguished contemporary man of letters; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. A brilliant essayist and a caustic, iconoclastic poet who addressed universal rather than personal concerns, Sena wrote over 100 scholarly books as well as twelve volumes of poetry and three volumes of plays. In 1959 he left Portugal to teach in Brazil and in 1965 moved to the U.S., where he became head of the department of comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

DIED. Joseph M. Montoya, 62, former Democratic Senator from New Mexico who as a member of the Watergate committee won dubious distinction for his mechanical, repetitive questioning of witnesses; of liver disease; in Washington. Known fondly throughout the Spanish farming towns of New Mexico as "the barefoot boy from Pena Blanca," Montoya at 21 became the youngest representativein the state's history. During a long political career that took him to the U.S. Senate in 1964, he compiled a liberal voting record and showed a flair for steering federal project funds to the state, particularly under the auspices of his Public Works and Economic Development Act. He also became a millionaire. In 1975 his popularity waned when he was accused of accepting preferential IRS treatment, and a year later he lost his Senate seat to former Astronaut Harrison Schmitt.

DIED. Morris Goff, 72, the stumblebum Abner of radio's long-running comedy series, Lum and Abner; following a stroke; in Palm Desert, Calif. Goff and his homespun partner, Chester Lauck, sauntered into an Arkansas radio audition in 1931 to find their blackface routine pre-empted by other contestants. Unfazed, they improvised a banter between two old back-country proprietors of the Jot 'Em Down general store and soon reached the national air waves, where they performed regularly until their retirement in 1955.

DIED. Karl F. Herzfeld, 86, theoretical physicist whose explanation of the molecular absorption of sound launched a new field of scientific research and contributed to the development of lasers; following a stroke; in Washington. After serving in the Austrian army in World War I, Herzfeld taught at the University of Munich, where his students included future Nobel Prizewinners Erwin Schrodinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg. Herzfeld came to the U.S. in 1926, taught at both Johns Hopkins and Catholic University and did major work on crystal dynamics, optics and the theory of liquids.

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