Born. To Erich Leinsdorf, 33, Viennese-born conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Anne Frohnknecht Leinsdorf, 28: their third child, third son; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Name: Joshua Franklin. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz.

Married. Artie Shaw, 35, bandleader; ex-husband of Cinemactress Lana Turner; and Ava Gardner, 21, starlet, ex-Mrs. Mickey Rooney; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Hollywood.

Died. Lady Eleanor Smith, 42, novelist (Red Wagon, Flamenco), daughter of the first Earl of Birkenhead; of septic colitis; in London. Prouder of her Romany blood than of her title, she specialized in gypsy and circus stories, wrote her autobiography at eight, did it again at 35 (Life's a Circus) with many a gypsy flourish.

Died. Newell Converse Wyeth, 62, onetime star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed.

Died. Hatcher Hughes, 64, one-hit playwright (HellBent for Heaven, 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winner), who taught playwriting (among his pupils: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) at Columbia University; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.

Died. General Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cardenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow.

Died. Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (pronounced Warehouser), 72, youngest son of the founder of the vast Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed for $200,000.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, 75, longtime (13 successive terms) president of the United Lutheran Church in America, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Church of the Atonement, vice president of the Lutheran World Convention, eloquent champion of unity among disputatious U.S. Lutheran groups; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Haelsingborg, Sweden.

Died. Virginia Terhune Van de Water, 80, magazine story writer, daughter of Novelist Mary V. Terhune (pen name: Marion Harland), sister of dog-story writer Albert Payson Terhune, mother of Author-Journalist Frederic F. Van de Water; after long illness, in Pompton Lakes, N.J.

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