Born. To Rita Hayworth, 26, cinemactress; and Orson Welles, 29, showman: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight: 6 1/2 Ibs.

Born. To Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, literate ecdysiast; and Alexander Kirkland, 40, Manhattan actor-producer: their first child, a son; two months after her Reno divorce, one day before his marriage to strawberry-blond post-debutante Phyllis Adams, 21, theatrical tyro (The Snark was a Boojum); in Manhattan. Name: Eric Lee. Weight: 5 Ibs., 5 oz.

Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight: 7 1/2 Ibs.

Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 51, World War I draft dodger, now at liberty after serving almost five years of a seven and a half year sentence in Army prisons, and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 37, applicant for U.S. citizenship: their seventh child, a son; one week after the death of Bergdol's 83-year-old mother, Emma Bergdoll; in West Chester, Pa.

Married. Veronica Lake, 25, cascade-haired cinemactress; and Andre de Toth, 31, Hungarian-born cinema director (Dark Waters); she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood.

Died. Philip Guedalla, 55, best-selling British historian (The Second Empire, The Two Marshals, The Hundred Years); in London. An Oxford (Balliol College) brilliant (he was president of the Union [Debating] Society, testing ground of many a Prime Minister), swart, slick-haired Guedalla wrote biographies as brilliantined as his conversation, admired the tawry grandeur of the age he mocked best: the era of Bismarck and Napoleon III. His definition of biography: "a region that is bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium."

Died. Otelia Augspurger Compton, 85, "American Mother for 1939," widow of Elias Compton, dean of the College of Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor oil."

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