Born. To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Lindsey Diane. Weight: 6 Ibs. 15 oz.

Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Munoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan, P.R.

Died. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (pronounced Mohoy-Nadj), 51, Hungarian-born founder-director of Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases.

Died. Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, 54, famed San Francisco architect, outspoken proponent of "Pacific Architecture," who designed such well-known San Francisco landmarks as the underground Union Square Garage and Nob Hill's Top of the Mark; of a heart attack; in San Francisco.

Died. Valentine Williams, 63, British journalist and mystery novelist; after long illness; in Manhattan. On the suggestion of Novelist John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir), Williams turned to writing "shockers" while convalescing from wounds during World War I. Result: The Man with the Clubfoot, which was translated into 13 languages.

Died. South Trimble, 82, dour-faced, preacherish Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, three-time Congressman from Kentucky; of pneumonia; in Washington. During a record total of 23 years (1911-19, 1931-46) in the clerkship, he signed more appropriation bills than any predecessor, ran the complex machinery of the House as a genial steward runs a club. His duties: filing House documents, disbursing payrolls, recording bills, drafting and engrossing messages, indexing the daily calendar.

Died. Henry Morgenthau, 90, onetime Ambassador to Turkey (1913-16), father of the former Secretary of the Treasury; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. After making a fortune in real estate, he turned to politics, looked back upon his years of service as part payment to the "country in which it is possible for the son of a poor immigrant to become an ambassador, his grandson a Cabinet officer and his great-granddaughter introduced to society in the White House."

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