Born. To Gregory Peck, 40, lanky cinemactor (Moby Dick), and Veronique Passani, 24, onetime Parisian newshen: a son, their first child (his fourth); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.

Married. Porfirio Rubirosa, aging (47) Dominican playboy; and bosomy, 20-year-old French Actress Odile Rodin; he for the fifth time (wives one to four: Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator, French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Moneybags Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton), she for the first; in Sonchamp, France.

Divorced. By Jayne Mansfield, 23, Broadway blonde (Witt Success Spoil Rock Hunter?): Publicity Agent Paul Mansfield, 26; after six years of marriage, 21 months of separation, one child (Jayne Marie, 5); in Los Angeles.

Declared Dead. Adolf Hitler, 56, by his own hand (gunshot wound) on April 30, 1945; in Berlin; by the District Court at Berchtesgaden, West Germany.

Died. Walter Gieseking, 60, bald, hulking amateur butterfly collector and strict vegetarian who ranked with the world's best pianists; after surgery for pancreatitis; in London. He became known to post-World War I audiences for his subtlety, grace and color, rather than for flashing technique, rose to greatness as an interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, played gladly for German audiences during the Nazi reign, was greeted by jeering pickets on his first postwar tour of the U.S., returned to Germany without playing, later toured in the U.S. successfully.

Died. Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 63, scholarly Negro sociologist, longtime (1928-46) head of social sciences at Nashville's Fisk University, who was named a UNESCO delegate in 1946, became Fisk's first Negro president the same year; of a heart attack; in Louisville. Dr. Johnson attacked race hatred calmly and analytically, summed up the segregation issue: "... a struggle between those who believe in democracy and those who do not."

Died. Risto Heikki Ryti, 67, who became Finnish Prime Minister in 1939, led his country through the disastrous Russo-Finnish War, was elected President in 1940; of cancer; in Helsinki. Russia-hating Risto Ryti brought Finland into World War II on the Axis side (he disavowed Naziism, claimed a "defensive war") when Germany invaded Russia (June 1941), ignored Washington's insistence that Finland stop fighting with Russia. One month later Ryti was pressured out by his own Parliament, in 1946 began serving three years of a ten-year hard-labor sentence for "contributing to Finland's entry into the war on Germany's side."

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