Born. To British Army Captain Michael Langhorne Astor, 27, third son of Lady Astor, Virginia-born M.P.; and Barbara McNeill Astor: a son; in London.

Engaged. Mayris Chancy, 31, Eleanor Roosevelt's onetime dancer-protegee; and Hershey Surkin, 31, orchestra leader; in San Francisco. She did the Bovingdon glide out of OCD in 1942.

Married. Sergeant Eugene List, 25, pianist; and Carroll Glenn, 22, Virginia-born violinist; in Manhattan.

Married. Lele von Harrenreich Daly, marrying widow of Anaconda copper-rich Marcus Daly, her second husband; and Richard Franklin Ford, 46, balding son of the late Standard Oilman Harry Smith Ford; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Upper Nyack, N.Y.

Married. Waldo Frank, 53, stocky, sputtering pundit (South American Journey}; and Jean Klempner, 26, of Manhattan, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; the same day he divorced Alma Magoon Frank, after 16 years ; in Reno.

Reported Dead. Mei Lan-fang, 49, great Chinese tan (actress); of poison; in Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar."

Died. Gloria Gould Bishop Barker, 37, glamor girl of the '20s; by drowning in her swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker.

Died. Harold Edmund Stearns, 52, author, journalist, drinker, the '20s senior American in Paris; of cancer; in Hempstead, L.I. (see p. 19).

Died. Dr. Gerard de Geer, 84, University of Stockholm's famed geochronologist; in Stockholm. By measurements of soil cross-sections, Baron de Geer established a climatic calendar that reached back 16,000 years.

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