Born. To Roberta Peters, 26, shapely. Manhattan-born Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Bertram Fields, 36, hotel owner: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Paul Adam. Weight: 6 Ibs. 14 1/2oz.

Born. To Irmgard Seefried, 36, bouncy leading soprano of the Vienna State Opera, who has made four U.S. tours, stirred Metropolitan Opera audiences as Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 1953. and Wolfgang Schneiderhan. 38, violin virtuoso: their second daughter, second child; in Vienna. Name: Monika. Weight: 8 Ibs. 2 oz.

Divorced. Betsy Blair (real name: Elizabeth Boger), 33, reddish-haired actress of stage (The Beautiful People) and screen (Marty); from Gene Kelly, 44, singing-dancing actor-director (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain): after 15 years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Dr. William Milton Adams Sr., 51, internationally known plastic surgeon, onetime (1953-54) president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; of a heart ailment; in Memphis.

Died. Ned Sparks (real name: Edward A. Sparkman), 73, sulphur-voiced, sourpuss cynicomedian (Lady for a Day, Imitation of Life), who once asked Lloyd's of London for $100,000 insurance against having a picture taken of him grinning ("I didn't get this wooden face by accident. It's been my trademark, and it's paid me well"); of an intestinal block; in Victorville, Calif.

Died. Major Hans George Hornbostel, 76, veteran of both World Wars, survivor of the Bataan Death March who in 1946, although denied official permission to join his wife Gertrude at the national leprosarium at Carville, La., lived in a cottage on the hospital grounds until she was cured (TIME. Sept. 26, 1949), then joined her in a campaign of education about Hansen's disease; of a heart ailment; in New York City.

Died. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, 76, terrible-tempered, medieval-minded Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seville, who damned and damped down the gay traditional dances of his fun-loving people, banned their movies, shuttered their nightclubs; of a kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with Franco, to another prelate.

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