Born. To Mary Churchill Soames, 25, pretty, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 27, Coldstream Guards captain: their first child (and Churchill's fifth grandchild), a son; in Croydon, England. Weight: 6 lbs. 8 oz.

Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, grandson and an heir of John D. Sr.; and Barbara Paul Sears, 31; he for the first time, she for the second; in Palm Beach, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Robert Kronfeld, 43, top-ranking international glider expert; in a glider crash; in Alton, Hampshire, England. Holder of early sailplane records, Vienna-born Kronfeld helped plan many of wartime Britain's airborne operations.

Died. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 49, Russia's brilliantly inventive cinema genius (Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky); of a heart ailment; in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS). Hobbled by Communist doctrines of "art," especially in his last years, he made little protest, even though his own great talents were emasculated by the state's demands.

Died. Caroline Lacroix, Baroness de Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death.

Died. Major General James Edmond Fechet (rhymes with O'Shea), U.S.A. (ret.), 70, second chief of the Army Air Corps (1927-31); after long illness; in Washington. Old Cavalryman Fechet rose from the ranks, switched to the infant air force in 1917, returned from retirement to active duty to run the Army Air Forces Promotion Board during World War II.

Died. Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Peter Centennial Brown, 71, wheelhorse pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance era; after long illness; in Terre Haute, Ind.

Died. Sir Isaac Isaacs, 92, first native-born Governor General of a British Dominion (Australia, 1931-36); in Melbourne. Isaacs found himself a storm center in Empire affairs when he was nominated; "a man the King has never seen," he was approved only at the insistence of Prime Minister James Henry Scullin and the Australian people.

Died. Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, 96, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, second only to the Pope in the Roman Catholic hierarchy; of a bladder ailment; in Vatican City.

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