Born. To Patrice Munsel, 34, airy coloratura soprano who has divided her talents among the Met (La Perichole, Die Fledermaus), the movies (Melba), TV (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Las Vegas, and Robert C. Schuler, 38, TV producer: a second daughter, fourth child; in Forest Hills, N.Y. Name: Nicole. Weight: 3 lbs. 4 oz.

Died. The Rev. George Bolton, 59, British-born pastor (1942-59) of the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission, a onetime gambler who wandered aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society.

Died. Dr. Russell Harrison Varian, 61, inventor (1937) with his brother Sigurd of the klystron, a radio tube operating at microwave frequencies that figured prominently in the development of World War II radar and later guided missiles, founder (1948) and board chairman of Varian Associates, a fast-rising, $20 million-a-year electronics firm; of a heart attack; aboard a cruise ship near Juneau, Alaska.

Died. Frederick Emerson Peters, 73, suave, oft-jailed swindler who passed about 28,000 bad checks, netted $250,000 in a career of 200 impersonations, including a college professor, retired actor, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so thoroughly that the FBI often had trouble convincing them that they had been duped, was often altruistic (last winter he sent the National Cathedral in Washington a $200 chalice, paid for. to be sure, by a bad check); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Michael Moses Coady, 77, Roman Catholic priest-director of the extension department of Nova Scotia's St.

Francis Xavier University, who led the Antigonish Movement, a combination of adult education and practical economics, among impoverished farmers and fishermen of Nova Scotia, organized cooperatives in the 19303 that quickly prospered, now earn more than $100 million a year and have spread as far as India and Ceylon; of cancer; in Antigonish, N.S.

Died. James Hazen Hyde, 83, son of Founder Henry Baldwin Hyde of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and himself an elegant dandy whose $100,000 Manhattan party in 1905--a re-creation of Versailles, with imported French food, wine, clothing and actresses--climaxed the extravagances of the Gilded Age and turned the harsh glare of publicity on the free-spending practices of insurance companies; in Saratoga Springs. N.Y. Spurred by public indignation, a committee of the New York state legislature investigated Equitable, pressured young Hyde to quit his job as vice president. Incensed. Hyde moved to France, where he settled for the real Versailles (he restored Madame de Pompadour's home), vowed never to return to the U.S., but he kept his citizenship and hurried home when the Nazis marched into Paris and spoiled his fun.

Died. Michael Late Benedum, 90, most daring and enduring of oil wildcatters, who claimed, without serious challenge, that he had uncovered more oil than anyone else in the industry, and amassed $100 million while doing it, stalked his prey on three continents with a three-part backwoods cunning--hunch, superstition, and what he called creekology (following a creek bed); in Pittsburgh. Where the major drillers cautiously held back. Benedum plunged in. making and losing fortunes as he drilled state by state from West Virginia to Texas, where, against the advice of experts, he opened up the fabulous Permian Basin (1924) and Yates Field (1926). Operating always behind the scenes, he launched into Colombia. Rumania (after winning over Queen Marie) and China (until the Japanese drove him out), once schemed and sought the help of the crowned heads of Europe to colonize a vast oil empire in the jungles of Brazil.

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