Born. To Annette Dionne Allard, 24, second Dionne quintuplet (after Cecile) to become a mother, and Finance-Company Official Germain Allard, 25: a son; in Cartierville, Que. Weight: 8 Ibs. 1 oz.

Born. To William Pettus Hobby Jr., 26, newspaperman, son of former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby and ex-Governor of Texas (1917-21) William Hobby, and Diana Stallings Hobby, 27, daughter of Playwright Laurence (What Price Glory) Stallings: their first child, a daughter; in Houston. Name: Laura Poteet.

Married. James MacArthur, 20, rising cinemactor (The Young Stranger), adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Playwright Charles MacArthur; and Joyce Collins Bulifant, 20, socialite actress; in Solebury, Pa.

Died. Marshall Neilan, 65, live-it-up Hollywood director of the silent era (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hell's Angels); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. One of the most lavish spenders in filmland history, "Mickey"' Neilan regularly exhausted a drawing account of $10,000 a week.

Died. Zoe Akins, 71, playwright (De-classee, The Greeks Had a Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train."

Died. Dame Rose Macaulay, 77, British novelist (Potterism, The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond), essayist, satirist; of a heart attack soon after signing a telegram from British writers to the Union of Soviet Writers protesting the expulsion of Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; in London. Spinster daughter of a Cambridge don and distant kin to Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dame Rose was raised in Italy, where her mother had been sent for her health. The sunny freedom of a girlhood on the Ligurian coast prepared her for anything but the spiny conventionalities of the traditional education (concluding at Oxford) that followed, giving rise to Rose Macaulay's frequent literary treatment of the struggles of the free spirit against rigid mores. The witty, bloodless, polished writer that emerged was--in words she used to describe a character in Staying With Relations--"ironic, amused, passionless, detached, elegantly celibate . . . a traveled European, a bland mocker, a rather mincing young gentlewoman."

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