Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa.

Died. Alastair Arthur, 28, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; in Government House, Ottawa, Canada. A member of a Scottish regiment who had served two years with the British Army in Egypt, he was the last of his line; the title ended with him.

Died. John Henry Wigmore, 80, author of a legal bible, Treatise on Evidence, dean of Northwestern's Law School from 1901 to 1929; of injuries suffered in a cab collision; in Chicago. Dean Wigmore was one of the designers of World War I's draft act and a co-founder of the Harvard Law Review.

Died. Robert Bracco, 82, witty Italian author of 40 plays (Masks, Phantasms, The Right to Live, etc.); in Naples. Favorably compared to contemporary dramatists Pirandello and d'Annunzio, he opposed the Fascists in 1923, was rewarded with 20 years' obscurity.

Died. Luren Dudley Dickinson, 84, God-fearing Michigan Republican, seven times Lieutenant Governor, onetime Governor; of a heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing.

Died. Dr. John E. Osborne, 84, onetime governor of Wyoming (1893-95) ; in Rawlins, Wyo. He once had a pair of shoes fashioned from the hide of George "Big Nose") Parrott, posse-lynched desperado.

Died. Vladimir Nemirovich-Dantchenko, 85, co-founder and director of the Moscow Art Theatre; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The Moscow Art Theatre was the result of an 18-hour conversation in 1897 between Dantchenko, then a dramatic-art teacher, and a businessman named Constantin Stanislavski. It attained world fame with the help of writers like Chekhov and Gorky, hardily adapted itself to the Soviet scene.

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