Born. To Catherine Vance Nimitz Lay, 34, eldest daughter of retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Commander James Thomas Lay, 39, commanding officer of the destroyer Orleck: twin sons, their second and third; in San Diego. Names: Chester Nimitz, Richard Freeman. Weights: 6 Ibs. 14 oz.; 6 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. Gwendoline de Rothschild, 21, brunette Barnard College student, younger daughter of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna, great-granddaughter of Banking Dynast Solomon de Rothschild; and H. Roland Hoguet, 27, socialite meat salesman (Armour) ; in Manhattan.

Married. Rose Louise Hovic ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), 33, premiere stripteuse; and Julio de Diego, 47, Spanish-born artist; each for the third time; in The Bronx.

Divorced. By Anne Ferelith, Viscountess Anson (born Bowes-Lyon), 30, slim, brunette niece of Queen Elizabeth: Thomas William Arnold, Viscount Anson, 34, Grenadier Guards captain, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; after almost ten years of marriage (three of separation), two children; in London.

Divorced. John D. Spreckels III, 37, high-living, wife-walloping sugar heir; by his third wife, Lou Dell Breese Spreckels, 37, curlylocked blonde former costume designer (who had been married seven times before); after 23 months of marriage (six of separation); in Los, Angeles.

Died. Leo F. Forbstein, 55, dean of motion picture musical directors, music supervisor of Warner Bros, for two decades; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood, Calif.

Died. Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg, 76, first surgeon of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's pioneer Neurological Institute; after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. Knowing that certain brain tumors affect the olfactory sense, Elsberg in 1935 developed the current standard technique of testing a patient's sense of smell as a means of determining the presence of a brain tumor undetectable by X rays.

Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother.

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