Born. To Burt Ward, 21, who plays Batman's teen-age sidekick, Robin, on TV, and Bonney Ward, 20, his wife of a year: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Born. To Princess Alexandra, 29, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 37, Scottish businessman: their second child, first daughter, who takes her place as 17th in line to the throne; in Richmond Park, England.

Married. Luci Baines Johnson, 19, and Patrick Nugent, 23; in Washington (see THE NATION).

Divorced. By France Nuyen, 27, French-born Eurasian actress (The World of Suzie Wong): Dr. Thomas Caspar Morell, 33, Manhattan psychiatrist who, La Belle France claimed, "knew how to ignore and destroy a woman's ego"; after three years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. By Marie Marguerite Louise Gisele LaFleche, 39, known to fans as Singer Gisele MacKenzie: Robert Shuttleworth, 52, her manager; on grounds that he beat her and kept her "emotionally on the rack"; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Lenny Bruce, 40, nightclub performer, leading outpatient of the sick-comic school; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Hollywood. Son of an "exotic dancer," trained as a burlesque comedian. Bruce was never in tune with this world, and he soured totally in the 1950s after his beautiful blonde wife became a drug addict, leaving him with an infant daughter. From Manhattan to Hollywood, he viewed life as a four-letter word and, with gestures, commented blackly on it, never lacking for listeners and finding some curious champions (among them: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Poet Robert Lowell). His path led ever lower after a Manhattan criminal court, in 1964, convicted him of being "obscene, indecent, immoral and impure."

Died. Bud Powell, 41, modern jazz pianist, who along with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker brought about the turn from swing to bop in the 1940s, then had a series of mental breakdowns after which his phenomenal inventiveness deserted him, though not the percussive precision and inspired phrasing that influenced most pianists of the past two decades; of malnutrition, tuberculosis and alcoholism; in Brooklyn.

Died. Rene Schick, 56, president of Nicaragua since 1963, a mild-mannered Managua professor and civil servant who was the hand-picked candidate of the country's all-powerful Somoza family, yet proved less of a do-nothing puppet than expected, largely running his own show and permitting the opposition to raise its voice, while working successfully to industrialize through foreign investment his land's cotton-coffee-cattle economy; of a heart attack; in Managua.

Died. Helen Tamiris, 64, dancer and choreographer who was trained as a classical ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the 1920s, but soon joined with Martha Graham and other rebels to pioneer modern American dance, later choreographed such Broadway hits as Up in Central Park, Annie Get Your Gun and Fanny; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Bishop Santos Martin Molina, 65, primate of the Spanish Reformed Church, a tiny Episcopal congregation (3,500 members) in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, who fought all his life for religious freedom in Spain--with enough success to say recently that "many of the great difficulties are disappearing"; of stomach cancer; in Madrid.

Died. Hank Gowdy, 76, star catcher for the fabulous 1914 Boston Braves, who defeated Connie Mack's heavily favored Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series, mainly because of Gowdy's .545 Series batting average, which still stands as a league Series record; of leukemia; in Columbus.

Died. Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, 88, German general, a Prussian Junker who was military overseer of Belgium and Northern France during World War II until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany.

Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemuende who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body.

* "Ungrateful Belgium, you shall not possess my bones."

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