ENGAGED. Gilda Radner, 38, loudmouthed, lantern-jawed comic actress on TV's Saturday Night Live, in films (First Family) and on Broadway (Lunch Hour); and Gene Wilder, 49, cherubic actor whom she met in 1981 on the set of Hanky Panky, where they fell in love both on-and offscreen (real life and reel life diverge in their latest movie together, The Woman in Red, in which he stars and directs and she co-stars as a spurned admirer); in Los Angeles. The marriage, her second, his third, is planned for October in Connecticut.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Mariana Simionescu, 27, former Rumanian tennis star who gave up her career to be a tournament wife; and Bjorn Borg, 28, alltime tennis great (five Wimbledon championships, six French Open titles) who retired last year after international competition stopped being "fun"; by mutual consent after four years of marriage, no children; in Monte Carlo.

DIED. Truman Capote, 59, eternal enfant terrible of American letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and several collections of short stories; of unknown causes; in Bel Air, Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, he was famous in Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays and write nonfiction works. Of In Cold Blood, his horrific 1965 account of the murder of a Kansas family by two drifters, he boasted that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote was a gossipy, party-loving sybarite with a gift for self-promotion and TV talk-show repartee. In recent years, however, his productivity faltered and he struggled--as frequent news reports about his hospitalizations and drunken-driving arrests gave witness--with an addiction to drugs and alcohol.

DEATH REVEALED. Nina Khrushchev, 84, widow of deposed Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and one of the few Communist high officials' wives to appear frequently in public or to develop an independent identity; in Moscow on Aug. 8. A schoolteacher who married Khrushchev in 1924, she was his second wife and bore him three children (a son, Sergei, and a daughter, Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed by his death in 1971, she lived quietly at their dacha outside Moscow.