Born. To Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 27, youngest of Britain's nonroyal dukes, and the Duchess of Rutland, 22, ex-Mayfair model, once known as "the girl with the perfect figure": their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: undecided. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Born. To Russel McKinley Grouse, 53, waggish perennial partner of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and Anna Erskine Crouse, 30, daughter of Novelist John Erskine: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Timothy. Weight: 6 lbs. 9 1/2 ozs.

Married. Jascha Heifetz, 45, violin virtuoso turned popular tunesmith (When You Make Love to Me--Don't Make Believe), and Frances Spiegelberg, fortyish; both for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. Ely Culbertson, 55, autobiographer (The Strange Lives of One Man), high priest of contract bridge turned World Federalist; and Dorothy Renata Baehne (rhymes with sane), 21; he for the second time, she for the first; in Chandler, Ariz.

Died. Eva Tanguay, 68, onetime bespangled, tousle-haired queen of vaudeville, whose raucous rendition of I Don't Care was top favorite with a whole generation of U.S. showgoers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Nearly blind, crippled with arthritis, the remains of her fortune ($2,000,000) lost in the crash of 1929, she lived out her last years alone, hoped always for a comeback: "Say that I will be back ... if you will--back by Christmas."

Died. Anatole de Monzie, 70, onetime leader of France's Radical Socialist Party, jack-in-the-box member of many French Cabinets, one of the top appeasers around Premier Daladier at Munich-time; in Paris.

Died. Lynn Joseph Frazier, 72, onetime front man for North Dakota's Non-Partisan League of agrarian radicals, North Dakota governor (1916-21), three-time U.S. Senator (1922-40), co-author of the Frazier-Lemke Bills for farm relief; after long illness; in Maryland.

Died. Chee Dodge, 86, Chief of the Navajos, who for 62 years bossed and guided the nation's largest Indian tribe and the parched, poverty-stricken reservation (three times the size of Massachusetts) on which it lives; in Ganado, Ariz.

Died. Charles Sumner Woolworth, 90, who helped brother Frank found the fabulous red-front chain of 5-&-10-c- stores, onetime chairman of the board of the F. W. Woolworth Co. (1919-44); in Scranton, Pa.

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