Born. To Mary Travers Feinstein, 29, of Peter, Paul and Mary, and Barry Feinstein, 35, photographer: their first child, a girl; in Danbury, Conn.

Born. To Valerie Feit Harper, 31, Manhattan fashion consultant, and Marion Harper Jr., 50, president of Interpublic Inc., advertising and public relations behemoth: a daughter, their first child (his fifth); in Manhattan.

Born. To Lieut. Colonel James Mc-Divitt, 37, command pilot of Gemini 4's June 1965 mission, and Patricia Mc-Divitt, 37: their fourth child, a girl, the first baby conceived by a U.S. astronaut after space flight; in Houston.

Married. James Pusey, 26, second son of Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey, currently teaching Chinese at Harvard; and Anne Chi-fang Wang, 20, mainland China-born daughter of a historian at Singapore's Nanyang University; in Cambridge, Mass.

Married. Ann Sheridan, 51, a wisecracking chick in 1940 movies (Torrid Zone); and Scott McKay, 51, perennial road-company leading man; both for the third time; in Bel Air, Calif.

Died. Hermann Scherchen, 74, Berlin-born conductor known as an indefatigable champion of modern composers, introducing works by Schoenberg and Hindemith when they were unknowns, who scorned U.S. orchestras as timid traditionalists, rejecting invitations for 35 years until 1964, when his five-part concert in Manhattan proved stunningly worth waiting for; of a heart attack; in Florence.

Died. Robert Fowler, 80, daredevil early birdman who in 1911, after only three hours of instruction, became the first to fly across the U.S. from West to East, sputtering from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Fla., in a bamboo-and-linen Wright Brothers biplane, an odyssey that took 45 flying days and 112 days overall because of the time spent repairing his machine after literally dozens of crashes; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Jose, Calif.

Died. Mary Heaton Vorse, 84, journalist and author, a devoutly prolabor New Englander who for three decades reported the birth pangs of U.S. unions in countless articles and five books (Labor's New Millions), often abandoning tier sidelines role to bail out imprisoned labor leaders and aid strikers' families; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Provincetown, Mass.

Died. William Ernest Hocking, 92, philosopher, last of the great American [dealists; of arteriosclerosis; in Madi-;on, N.H. (see EDUCATION).

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