Born. To Corporal Jerry (Superman author) Siegel, 29, and Mrs. Bella Siegel, 22: their first superbaby, Michael; in Cleveland. Weight: nine pounds.

Sued for Divorce. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60: Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, late of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment.

Died. Will B. Johnstone, 62, political cartoonist, creator of the barrel-dressed, chinless, widely syndicated "Little Taxpayer"; after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Old World-man Johnstone was taken over by the World-Telegram in 1931, first sent his "taxpayer" into the lists as an auxiliary in Mayor LaGuardia's successful 1933 campaign against Tammany.

Died. Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornells Mondriaan), 71, Holland-born dean of rectilinear abstract painters; in Manhattan. The gentle, jazz-and-orange-loving hermit, heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso, always said that regular curves made him nervous; deplored the necessary circularity of records and oranges.

Died. Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko, 75, wealthy Emir of Nigerian Katsina (pop. 1,000,000). Most forward-looking of all Emirs, plane-traveling Dikko had four wives, 500 descendants.

Died. John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign --1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World War I.

Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius Jr. (1936).

Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risque features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from cafe songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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