Born. To Crown Prince Akihito, 31, No. 1 son of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Princess Michiko, 31; their second child, second son; in Tokyo.

Married. Henry Fonda, 60, Hollywood's Jack-of-all-parts turned bewildered father of Broadway's Generation; and Shirlee Mae Adams, 33, former American Airlines stewardess; he for the fifth time (his others: Actress Margaret Sullavan, Socialites Frances Brokaw, Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti); in Mineola, L.I., where New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin R. Lynde sternly admonished: "No couple I have married has broken apart. I don't expect you to."

Died. Erich Apel, 48, East Germany's chief economic planner; by his own hand (method unannounced); in East Berlin. Since his predecessor also committed suicide, the East Germans called Apel's death "a sudden uncontrolled reaction" brought on by "overburdened nerves." They were especially embarrassed since it took place three days after he had concluded a new five-year trade pact with the Russians.

Died. Bernard Bloch, 58, professor of linguistics at Yale University, who in World War II devised an invaluable short-cut method of teaching spoken Japanese based on phonetics and idioms that opened up the immensely complicated language to thousands of Allied interpreters, is now in standard use throughout the U.S.; of congestive heart failure; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Hugh Latimer Dryden, 67, deputy chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; of cancer; in Washington. Dryden, as he liked to say, grew up with aviation--and the U.S. Government's stake in it; his physicist's talents took him through virtually every major project beginning with the first significant research into air turbulence. He was slated to be NASA's chief when the space agency was formed in 1958, but then bluntly told an overanxious Congress that rushing a man into suborbital flight made no more sense than "shooting a woman out of a cannon at a circus." Dryden settled for No. 2 and the chance to exert a restraining influence on the young scientists racing pell-mell to the moon.

Died. William Neal Deramus, 77, chairman of the Kansas City Southern Railway, who started out as a kerosene lamplighter at 14, held every job from telegrapher to chief dispatcher until he became president of the 1,647-mile road in 1941, thereafter earning a reputation as one of the more successful leaders of a generally depressed industry by increasing freight and diversifying into moneymaking sidelines; of pneumonia; in Kansas City, Mo.

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