Born. To Gina Lollobrigida, 29, Italian cinemactress (Beat the Devil, Woman of Rome), and Drago Milan (Mirko) Skofic, 37, Yugoslav-born physician: a son, their first child; in Rome. Name: Mirko. Weight: 6 lbs. 11 oz.

Died. Carlos Castillo Armas, 42, President of Guatemala since 1954; by an assassin's bullet; in Guatemala City (see THE HEMISPHERE).

Died. Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, 69, U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period destroyed 350 enemy aircraft, 46 enemy ships, in his combat-starred Navy career won three Navy Crosses.

Died. Alexandre Georges Pierre (Sacha) Guitry, 72, prolific writer-actor-director-producer of plays and films; after long illness; in Paris. Born in St. Petersburg, where his actor father, Lucien Guitry, was on tour, impudent, versatile Sacha roughed his way through eleven French schools ("I knew all the dates in French history, but, unhappily, not what happened on them"), turned out his first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want Paris to die . . ."), was once (1948) kidnaped by former resistance fighters in Lyon, forced to stand at silent attention for one minute before a memorial to martyred war heroes.

Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohn, 78, heart specialist who introduced the electrocardiogram to the U.S. (1910), member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920-44), and noted essayist (Minerva's Progress); after long illness; in New Milford, Conn.

Died. Maurice Sterne (real name: Schlossberg), 79, Russian-born painter, sculptor and draftsman, who painted (1935-40) the 20 huge murals in the Department of Justice library in Washington, at one time received $10,000-$12,000 a painting, his work growing abruptly more impressionistic and evocative during World War II; after long illness; in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

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