MARRIED. Glenn Close, 36, effortless-appearing actress of stage (The Real Thing and film (The Big Chill, The Natural); ana James Marias, 47, venture capitalist; both for the second time; in Nantucket, Mass.

HOSPITALIZED. Salvador Dali, 80, eccentric Spanish surrealist painter who in recent years has lived as a recluse in his castle near Cadaques, in Catalonia; for surgery to treat severe burns received when his canopied bed caught fire; in Barcelona.

DIED. Irvin Feld, 66, hard-driving impresario who in 1956 rescued the foundering Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from ruin and eleven years later bought it outright and thereafter ran it extravaganzily and profitably; of a brain hemorrhage; in Venice, Fla.

DIED. Adam Malik. 67, eloquent, energetic Indonesian Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1977 and Vice President from 1978 to 1983, a founding father of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and one of the region's most respected statesmen; of cancer; in Bandung, Indonesia.

DIED. Ernest Tubb, 70, the "Texas Troubadour," pioneer of honky-tonk country music and pillar of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry since 1943, whose many hits included I'm Walking the Floor Over You, Waltz Across Texas and Tomorrow Never Comes; of emphysema; in Nashville.

DIED. Arthur Schwartz, 83, Broadway and Hollywood composer who with his chief lyricist, the late Howard Dietz, wrote some of the most sophisticated show tunes of the '30s, including Dancing in the Dark, Something to Remember You By, You and the Night and the Music, By Myself, and later, and perhaps most memorably, the show-biz anthem That's Entertainment;'m Kintnersville, Pa.

DIED. Liam O'FIaherty, 88, powerful and prolific Irish novelist and short-story writer, whose tales of desperate men, failed traditions and spiritual torment (The Black Soul, The House of Gold, Famine) combined brutally modern realism and wild lyricism; in Dublin. His best-known work, The Informer (1925), was filmed three times, most notably in 1935 by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen.

DJED. Josyf Slipyj, 92, Roman Catholic Cardinal since 1965 and exiled leader of Ukrainian Catholics; in Rome. Imprisoned by the Soviets for 18 years, he was released in 1963 in a conciliatory gesture by he Kremlin to Pope John XXIII. But Slipyj remained unhappy about the Vatican's Ostpolitik, including its openings to the subservient Russian Orthodox Church. He campaigned publicly for the creation of a Ukrainian patriarchate, with himself it its head, and was bitter that both Paul VI and John Paul II denied him that out of deference to East-bloc relations.