Milestones Jul. 10, 1995

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MARRIED. PRINCESS STEPHANIE GRIMALDI, 30, of Monaco; to DANIEL DUCRUET, 31, her ex-bodyguard; at the Monaco registrar's office. The couple have two children.

DIED. GORDON WILSON, 67, peace activist; of a heart attack; in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. In 1987 Wilson's daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb, and in a moving rejection of his country's bloody bouts of violence and retribution, he publicly forgave her murderers.

DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany.

DIED. LANA TURNER, 75, movie star; in Los Angeles. It was in her big-screen debut in 1937 that Turner first strode across the screen in a form-following sweater. The film's title: They Won't Forget. And they didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life melodrama that erupted when her daughter fatally knifed an abusive boyfriend of Turner's. Things went a bit better for her seven husbands; they merely got divorced.

DIED. ERNEST T.S. WALTON, 91, Nobel laureate who, with car batteries, bicycle parts, cookie tins, glass tubing and partner Sir John Cockcroft, became the first scientist to split an atom, proving that E did indeed equal mc2 and ushering in the hope and terror of the nuclear age; in Belfast.