Born. To Peter Duchin, 28, prince of society bandleaders, and Cheray Zauderer Duchin, 25: their first child, a son; in Manhattan.

Born. To Margaret Truman Daniel, 42, Harry's only child, and Clifton Daniel, 53, managing editor of the New York Times: their fourth child, fourth son; in Manhattan.

Married. Tammy Grimes, 32, pixilated musical comedy star (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); and Jeremy Slate, 40, frequent second lead; both for the second time; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Princess Marie Christine of Prussia, 18, great-granddaughter of the last Kaiser, whose father, Prince Hubertus, died of peritonitis when she was three; following the crash of her car, six weeks after her favorite uncle, Prince Friedrich, committed suicide by drowning in the Rhine; in Giessen, Germany.

Died. Peter George, 42, author of Two Hours to Doom, the 1958 book from which the movie Dr. Strangelove was taken, a onetime R.A.F. navigator who wrote the original as a deadly serious account of nuclear war by accident, then helped Producer Stanley Kubrick turn it into satire; by his own hand (shotgun); in Sussex, England.

Died. James Woolf, 46, acidly witty British producer who in 1949 joined with his brother John to form Romulus Films Ltd., responsible for some of cinema's best (Room at the Top, The African Queen, I Am a Camera)', of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. General William H. Blanchard, 50, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff and No. 2 in command, a heavy-bomber pilot who pioneered in the daringly low-level B-29 raids against Japan in World War II, and as Curtis LeMay's operations officer planned the first A-bomb drop on Hiroshima, then spent 15 years helping to build the Strategic Air Command, all of which earned him four stars at the age of 48; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. James R. Newman, 58, lawyer-turned-author, who made math digestible to the unscientific mind with 15 well-received books including his 1956 World of Mathematics, a four-volume survey that sold 160,000 copies; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase, Md.

Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif.

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