Born. To the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 32, softspoken, strong-willed Baptist minister who led Montgomery, Ala. Negroes in the 1956 fight to integrate the city's bus line, and Coretta King, 33; their third child, second son; in Atlanta.

Married. Neale Fraser, 27, handsome, hard-serving Australian who is the world's best amateur tennis player; and Wendy Mclver, 23, non-tennis playing daughter of a purchasing agent; in South Caulfield, Victoria.

Died. Anna May Wong, 54, Los Angeles-born daughter of a local laundryman, who became a film star over her father's objections that "every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul," died a thousand deaths as the screen's foremost Oriental villainess; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Eugene Dennis, 56, who rose high in the U.S. Communist Party hierarchy in the "our gallant Ally" afterglow of World War II, became general secretary in 1945, and during his twelve-year reign, saw party membership shrivel from a peak of 80,000 to fewer than 20,000 under the heat generated by the cold war; of cancer; in New York City. Born Francis X. Waldron Jr. of a middle-class Seattle family, Dennis joined the party as a youthful instructor, served as a Red agent in Europe, China and South Africa, became the leader of U.S. Communists after Moscow dumped his onetime mentor, Earl Browder, for deviationist notions. In 1950 Dennis went to jail for refusing to testify about his Communism before a House committee; again, after the 1949 trial of "first-string" Communists, he was convicted for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government and sentenced to five years.

Died. Stanley Hoflund High, 65, a senior editor of the Reader's Digest and former editor of the Christian Herald, who switched from Hoover to become a New Deal brain-truster, founded the Good Neighbor League in 1936, was disowned by F.D.R. a year later for writing a magazine article revealing policy differences within the White House, and thereafter enlisted his skill as a publicist in the campaigns of Republican Candidates Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower; of pulmonary complications following heart trouble; in New York City.

Died. Perry Wilbon Howard, 83, crafty Negro politician and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, who was the absentee ruler of the long-dormant state organization for more than 30 years while he ran a law firm in Washington, D.C.. and whose "Black and Tan" faction was ousted last year when a "Lily White" Republican delegation was seated at the Republican National Convention; of a heart attack; in Washington.

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