Swaran Singh, 87, foreign minister of India when it backed East Pakistan's breaking away from West Pakistan to form Bangladesh, died Sunday in New Delhi, where he lived. A Sikh from Punjab province in northwestern India, he was foreign minister from 1964 to 1966 and from 1970 to 1974.
Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 80, one of the world's leading authorities on Italian Renaissance work, died Monday at his home in Florence, Italian television reported. His many books include studies of Sienese painting, and Renaissance artists Uccello and Fra Angelico. He had recently completed a study of Italian sculptor Donatello.
Dr. Harold Hill Smith, 84, the geneticist whose research produced the first fusion of a cell from a human with one from a plant, died of natural causes Oct. 19 at a nursing home in State College, Pa.