Born. To Charles Spencer (Charlie) Chaplin, 68, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 32, daughter of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill: a fourth daughter, sixth child (his tenth); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Jane. Weight: 6 Ibs.

Divorced. By Aly Khan, 46, playboy son of the Aga Khan: Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 38; in a Swiss court action paralleling her 1953 Nevada divorce from him (which France never recognized); after four years of marriage, two years of on-again, off-again separation, one child. In the meantime (1953-55) Rita married and divorced her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes.

Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 58, German-born novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front, Arch of Triumph); by Else Jeanne Zamboni, 64; for the second time (they were first married in 1923, divorced in 1930, remarried in 1938); in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris.

Died. Boatswain William H. Gowan, 72, 35-year Navyman who retired in 1942, one of the rare peacetime winners of the Medal of Honor, for "extraordinary heroism displayed by him during a conflagration [in a ship of the U.S. Navy] in Coquimbo, Chile, 20 January 1909"; of a heart attack, without friends, family or funeral expenses; in Brooklyn.

Died. William L. Murphy, 81, inventor of the Murphy bed; in Belle Vista Beach, Fla. (see BUSINESS).

Died. Arthur Fisher Bentley, 86, philosopher, political scientist, author (The Process of Government), collaborator with the late John Dewey on Knowing and the Known; in Paoli, Ind.

Died. George Gilbert Aime Murray, 91, spare, brilliant Greek scholar and Oxford don (from 1908), eminent translator of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes. After the shock of losing many friends and students in World War I, Murray joined Lord David Cecil and Sir Norman Angell in urging a strong League of Nations, in 1946 became a joint president of Britain's United Nations Association. The precise scholar, who could also baffle friends with a parlor trick of taking off a sock without removing his shoe, once said that "only in peace is it possible for a man to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with his God."

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