MARRIED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, versatile film actor (Papillon, Marathon Man) who this year won an Academy Award for his performance in Kramer vs. Kramer; and Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer; he for the second time, six days after his divorce from Anne Byrne, his actress-dancer wife of eleven years; in Roxbury, Conn. Hoffman and Gottsegen met through his parents and her grandparents, who were neighbors in Los Angeles.

MARRIED. Gerald Green, 58, novelist (The Last Angry Man) who wrote the script for the Emmy Award-winning 1978 television series Holocaust; and Interior Designer Marlene Eagle, 46; both for the second time; in New Canaan, Conn.

DIED. Edwin Way Teale, 81, naturalist, photographer and illustrator whose more than 30 books (The Lost Woods, North with the Spring, A Walk Through the Year) combined a scientist's eye for detail with a poet's love for language; in Norwich, Conn. Teale, who became interested in the out-of-doors during childhood visits to his grandfather's farm in Indiana, put two decades of effort and 100,000 miles of travel into a four-part series on the American seasons, which culminated in 1965 with the Pulitzer-prizewinning Wandering Through Winter. In it he wrote: "Beneath fields of white and rivers of ice and in the hard and frozen ground, life was waiting, confident, un-despairing. Its activity was merely suspended. The stillness, the seeming death of winter, is but an illusion."

DIED. Eleanor Grace McClatchy, 85, pioneering woman publisher who for 42 years ran McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., a chain that includes the Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees in California, the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and other dailies; in Sacramento. McClatchy was a playwrighting student at Columbia University when her father's death in 1936 propelled her into the presidency of the company. She was aggressive in acquiring one television and several radio stations, and in using her newspapers' influence to champion liberal candidates and causes, but personally she remained extremely reticent. In a rare interview, she once said: "I am content to have people think I live in a cave and wear horns."

DIED. Sheldon Warren Cheney, 94, art historian and theater critic who helped define the modernist movement in American drama in the 1920s and '30s that was exemplified by such figures as Playwright Eugene O'Neill and Designer Robert Edmond Jones; of a stroke, in Berkeley, Calif. He founded Theatre Arts magazine in 1916 (it discontinued publication in 1964). His books include The New Movement in the Theater (1914), Expressionism in Art (1934) and The Story of Modern Art (1941).