Born. To John George Chetwynd-Talbot, 38, the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Shrewsbury, 39: their fifth child, first son and thus heir, since the title and estate (a castled 8,000 acres) descend through the male line; in Stafford, England. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. John Barrymore Jr., 20, son of the late "Great Profile" and onetime Cinemactress Dolores Costello, now himself a fledgling cinemactor (The Big Night, High Lonesome); and Cara Williams, 25, Hollywood starlet; he for the first time, she for the second; after eloping to Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Nicholas Monsarrat, 42, British author of the bestselling novel The Cruel Sea; and Philippa Crosby, 34, to whom he dedicated his book; he for the second time, she for the first; in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Died. Monsignor Carlo Agostini, 64, patriarch of Venice and one of the 24 new Roman Catholic cardinals named by Pope Pius XII in November; of Parkinson's disease; in Venice.

Died. Margaret Gabrielle Long, 64, British historical novelist (The Carnival of Florence, Moss Rose) who turned out some 170 books under at least six pen names (including Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing); in London.

Novelist Graham Greene has said of her Vipers oj Milan (a melodramatic yarn where sin triumphs over virtue), which he read as a child: "From that moment I began to write . . . It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject.

Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey." Died. Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox, 72, longtime (since 1925) Georgia member of the House of Representatives and second in seniority on the House Rules Committee; of a heart ailment; in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Shrewd, rabble-rousing Congressman Cox was convinced that the world is divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous, ignorant, unreasonable hostility." Died. Victor Macomber Cutter, 71, Massachusetts farm boy, who joined the United Fruit Co. in 1904 as a timekeeper in the Costa Rican jungles, by 1924 had become president of the company (he retired in 1933); of injuries in a fall down a flight of stairs; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Alexandrine, 73, longtime (1912-47) Queen of the Danes and mother of Denmark's present King Frederik IX; in Copenhagen.

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