Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi.

Died. Sir Henry Spurrier, 66, recently retired chairman of England's vast Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd., who inherited control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's Cuba, to which Leyland is delivering 450 buses in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo; after a long illness; in Preston, England.

Died. The Right Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II, 69, Episcopal Bishop of Arizona since 1945, member of a Virginia family that produced nine clergymen (including bishops of Texas and Brazil), who ministered first to West Point cadets, then to Long Island suburbanites before going west, where parishioners ranged from the retired rich to the Havasupai Indians; of brain tumor; in Carmel, Calif.

Died. Giorgio Morandi, 73, Italian painter following the 19th century impressionist style, a self-effacing recluse who spent his days composing serene, Cezanne-like still lifes of bottles, vases and flowers, which brought as much as $10,000 on the open market but which he usually sold to dealers for less than $200 because "I would consider it an immoral exploitation if I accepted such sums"; after a long illness; in Bologna.

Died. Virgil Venice McNitt, 83, publisher, who in 1922, with Charles Mc-Adam, founded the McNaught Syndicate, a newspaper feature service named after McNitt's Scottish ancestors, soon hit it rich by selling the homespun aphorisms of Will Rogers to 700 U.S. dailies, went on to establish such other favorites as Dale Carnegie and Joe Palooka; of cancer; in Southbridge, Mass. Still going strong in 1,000 newspapers under McAdam, 72, the syndicate now features, besides tireless Joe, the Flintstones, Dixie Dugan, Mickey Finn, and Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren.

Died. The Most Rev. Edmund Gib bons, 95, oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S. and head of the Albany, N.Y., diocese from 1919 to 1954, a tireless crusader against child labor, salacious movies, bingo, and atheists of every sort, who once said of Thomas Edison, "I believe the publicity given to his lack of faith made him one of the greatest detriments to the world today"; in Albany.

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