Born. To Corporal Mickey Rooney (real name: Joe Yule Jr.), 24, indefatigable cinemadolescent, now with a Special Services entertainment unit in Europe ; and Betty Jane Rase Yule, 18, tall, blonde Miss Birmingham of 1944: their first child, a son ; in Birmingham. Name: Joe Yule 3rd (nickname: Mickey). Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.

Married. John Erskine, 65, best-selling romantic satirist (Adam & Eve, Influence of Women -- And Its Cure); and Helen Worden, 49, journeywoman-writer and ex-New York World-Telegram reporter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Albuquerque, N.M., three days after his Reno divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine.

Missing in Action. Sergeant Simon Eden, 20, elder son of Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, R.A.F. navigator on an operational flight in Burma.

Died. Harold Norman Denny, 56, able, longtime roving correspondent for the New York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason trials; of a heart attack; in Des Moines, Iowa. Captured in Libya in 1941 and imprisoned for six months, he later followed the First Army from the Normandy beachheads to the union with the Russians. His advice to war reporters: "A dead correspondent sends no dispatches."

Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader."

Died. Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear, 64, Princeton University's famed archeologist, whose best-known excavation was the 1931-39 Rockefeller-financed ($1,200,000) unearthing of the market place of ancient Athens; of a heart attack; at Lake Sunapee, N.H.

Died. Clifford Burke Harmon, 79, the world's No. 1 amateur air enthusiast, who used his real-estate millions to help indigent flyers and to found the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs (which gave the annual Harmon international air trophies); in Cannes, France.

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