Born. To Peter O'Toole, 29, fast-rising Irish cinemactor (Lawrence of Arabia), currently making Becket with Richard Burton, and Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, 28: a second child, second daughter; in Dublin.

Divorced. By Alfred Bertram ("Bud") Guthrie Jr., 62, novelist (The Way West) and screenwriter (Shane); Harriet Larson Guthrie, 55; on grounds of cruelty; after 32 years of marriage, two children; in Billings, Mont.

Died. Georges Wildenstein, 71, dean of art dealers, a nicely balanced mixture of scholar and bookie with an encyclopedic knowledge of the masters and a computer-like memory (he once spotted an unidentified Watteau, got it for $30), who inherited the house of Wildenstein from his father Nathan in 1934, carried on the family tradition of spot cash for multimillion-dollar collections, blue-chip customers (from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to Stavros Niarchos) and controversy (he caused a national uproar in 1960 after he outbid the Louvre for a De La Tour, then exported it to the Met, making himself a profit of at least $500,000); of a heart attack; in Paris.

Died. Ira Haupt, 74, one of Wall Street's better-known stockbrokers, who began as a runner at 13, was a member of the Stock Exchange at 24, built a thriving brokerage house with ten offices across the U.S., and used his wealth to grow orchids and, with his wife, Seventeen Editor and Publisher Enid Haupt, collect French impressionist art; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Gaston Ramon, 76, French microbiologist, who followed in Louis Pasteur's footsteps at the Pasteur Institute, in 1923 developed the first safe and effective diphtheria vaccine, later produced the first antitetanus vaccine; of a heart attack; in Paris.

Died. Victor Frank Ridder, 77, publisher, who with his two brothers took over a Manhattan German-language weekly from their father in 1915, put together a chain of eight profitable newspapers in one-paper cities (among them St. Paul and Duluth, Minn., Long Beach and Pasadena, Calif.), plus the country's oldest business paper, the 136-year-old Journal of Commerce; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Andrew Browne Cunningham, 80, Viscount of Hyndhope, a crusty, klaxon-voiced sea dog who as Britain's Mediterranean commander in chief in World War II sank the pride of the Italian navy at Taranto and Cape Matapan, blocking Rommel's supply route and turning Mussolini's vaunted Mare Nostrum into "Cunningham's Pond"; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass.

Died. Jacques Villon (real name: Gaston Duchamp), 87, French painter and engraver, a Norman notary's son who as a youth took the last name of Vagabond Poet Francois Villon, with his younger brother Marcel Duchamp joined the Cubists in 1911, but won only minor notice until after World War II, when he turned to gayer colors and greater realism, becoming a favorite of U.S. museums; of uremic poisoning; in the Paris suburb, Puteaux.

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