Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight: 6 lbs.

Married. Tyrone Power, 34, cinemactor; and Linda Christian, 25; he for the second time, she for the first; in Rome (see INTERNATIONAL).

Marriage Revealed. C. (Cecil) S. (Scott) Forester, 49, British-born, best-selling novelist (the Horatio Hornblower sea sagas); and Dorothy Ellen Foster; he for the second time, she for the first; in London; last May.

Died. The Rev. Peter Marshall, 46, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate since 1947; of a heart attack; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Theodore R. Middleton, 52, hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records).

Died. Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev, 64, Stalin Prizewinning Soviet musicologist and composer (his work is little known outside Russia), chairman of the powerful Union of Soviet Composers (to which Prokofiev and Shostakovich apologized last year for their "bourgeois, antidemocratic" music); in Moscow.

Died. Admiral David Foote Sellers, 74, onetime Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (1933-34) and Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1934-38); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Irvine Luther Lenroot, 79, onetime G.O.P. Congressman (1909-18) and Senator (1918-27) from Wisconsin; in Washington. Lenroot missed becoming the 29th U.S. President when the 1920 Republican Convention, which had seemed about set to nominate him as Warren Harding's running mate, settled on Calvin Coolidge instead.

Died. Count Nobuaki Makino, 88, Japan's liberal elder statesman and longtime adviser (Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1925-35) to Emperor Hirohito; in Tanaka, Japan. Forced out by the militarists, he made a comeback after V-J day, exerting potent political influence through his son-in-law Premier Yoshida.

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