Born. To Joe Louis, 33, world's heavyweight boxing champion, and Marva Trotter Louis, 30: their second child, first son; in Mexico City. Name: Joe Jr. Weight: 11 Ibs. 8 oz. The parents, divorced in 1945, were secretly remarried about a year ago (Joe announced when the baby arrived). Explained Marva: "As far as Joe and I are concerned, we never recognized the divorce."

Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland, Wyo.

Married. James Marion ("Jimmie") Fidler, 48, radio and newspaper cinemagpie; and ex-Airline Stewardess Adeline Cox McKnight, 25; he for the third time, she for the second; in Upland, Calif.

Died. Ex-Sergeant John Hannah, V.C., 25, R.A.F. hero, one of the youngest soldiers ever to receive Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross; of tuberculosis; in London.

Died. Mavis Constance Tate, 54, longtime campaigner for British women's rights, for 14 years (1931-45) a Conservative M.P.; apparently of gas poisoning; in London.

Died. Herman Darewski, 64, Russian-born British composer whose K-K-K-Katy was stuttered by millions during World War I, onetime piano teacher to Princess Elizabeth; of a heart ailment; in London. .

Died. Julio Tello, 67, Peru's No. 1 archeologist; of an unknown disease that popular legend attributes to germs picked up in old Indian tombs; in Lima, Peru. Fellow experts often disagreed with dour little Tello's historical conclusions, but fellow Indians hailed him for his favorite one: that they are not members of an inferior race.

Died. James Evershed Agate, 69, bumptiously witty, self-centered (his nine-volume autobiography is entitled Ego) cotton-mill owner who tired of working with calico ("hating every yard of it"), became one of Britain's top literary, cinema and drama critics (the London Daily Express and Sunday Times); of a heart attack; in London.

Died. Jesse Wilford Reno, 85, inventor in 1892 of the inclined elevator (a forerunner of the modern Escalator), son of Civil War General Jesse Lee Reno, who gave his name to Nevada's notorious "Biggest Little City in the World"; after long illness; in Pelham Manor, N.Y.

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