Born. To Cinemactress Constance Bennett, and Cinemactor Gilbert Roland: a daughter, 6 Ib. 8 oz.; in Beverly Hills.

Born. To Radio Correspondent William Lawrence Shirer, 37 (Berlin Diary), and Theresa Stiberitz Shirer, 31: a second daughter, Linda Elizabeth; in Manhattan.

Engaged. Cinemadolescent Mickey Rooney, 21; and Actress Ava Gardner, 18, Hollywood newcomer.

Marriage Revealed. Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 62; and Mrs. Evelyn Schwartz Baird, 28, his secretary; in Wellsville, Tenn.

Married. Ernest Tener Weir, 66, head of National Steel Corp.; and Mrs. Mary E. Hayward, 25; he for the third time, she for the second; in Baltimore.

Died. William F. Gettle, 54, oil-wealthy Arcadia (Calif.) kidnap victim in 1934; of chronic liver trouble; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Hanns Kerrl, 54, Nazi Minister of Church Affairs; in Berlin. As Prussian Minister of Justice in 1933-34 he introduced the crime of "race treason"--mixing Jewish and "Aryan" blood. He was made Minister of Church Affairs in 1935, given the job of bringing the churches under full State control. He failed, and most of his power was taken from him in 1937.

Died. Arthur Charles Wellesley, 65, Fifth Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the "Iron Duke"; of pneumonia; in London. Among the special privileges he inherited from Waterloo's hero: the right to keep his hat on in the presence of the King of Spain.

Died. Dr. Frank Conrad, 67, "father of radio broadcasting"; in Miami. He played phonograph records in a homemade station he built in his garage in Pittsburgh, in 1919, broadcast plugs for the dealer he borrowed records from, acquired a regular audience of listeners.

Died. Dmitri Merejkowski, 76, Russian historical novelist, biographer (The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci), Christian mystic; in Paris.

Died. Charles A. Whelan, 78, co-founder (with his brother) in 1901 of United Cigar Stores Co. of America which he sold in 1929 along with the Whelan Drug chain (founded by two of his sons); in East Orange, N.J.

Died. Judge John Slaughter Candler, 80, last of Georgia's famed Candler (Coca-Cola) brothers; in Atlanta. Best-known of the family were Methodist Bishop Warren A., Coca-Cola King Asa G. Judge John retired from Georgia's Supreme Court bench in 1906.

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