Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi 50, the Shah of Iran, and Empress Farah, 31, his third wife: their fourth child, second girl; in Teheran. Name: Princess Leila.

Died. Brigadier General William R. Bond, 50, commander of the U.S 199th Light Infantry Brigade and the first general to die of enemy small-arms fire in Viet Nam; of a chest wound; 67 miles northeast of Saigon. A 28-year Army veteran on his second Viet Nam tour Bond was inspecting the scene of a recent firefight when he was hit by a single sniper's bullet. Four other generals have been killed in action--all in plane or helicopter crashes.

Died. Vera Brittain, 75, British pacifist and author; of pneumonia; in Wimbledon, England. A World War I battlefield nurse who lost her brother and fiance in the trenches, Miss Brittain lectured widely and wrote with the passion of experience in her descriptive, often brutal, antiwar writings--most notably Testament of Youth, an account of her conversion to pacifism, which was published in the U.S. in 1933.

Died. Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko, 75, one of the architects of the German defeat on the Eastern front in World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. The son of a landless peasant Timoshenko deserted the Czarist Army 1917 to join the Bolshevik Revolution and became one of Soviet Communism's staunchest soldiers. A favorite of Stalin, he rose to the rank of Marshal at the age of 45, won a reputation for tenacity and rigorous discipline if not for tactical brilliance He was called in to bolster the sagging Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and led five armies plus 20 divisions in the famed battle of Smolensk in 1941. Though Timoshenko's troops were eventually defeated, his ten-week defensive stand ruined the Nazis' timetable and forced them into the bitter winter campaign for Moscow, which was a turning point of the war.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Frederick Gerard Peake, 83, British officer who founded the Arab Legion in Transjordan; of pneumonia; in Kelso, Scotland Peake got his desert experience under the famed Lawrence of Arabia in World War I, was then given his own command as inspector general of gendarmerie in Transjordan in 1921. The 1,200-man legion he organized ranged 'over 34,000 sq. mi. of mountainous desert policing some 300,000 people and proved to be the most efficient military force in the entire Arab world.

Died. Heinrich Bruning, 84, Chancellor during the last years of the Weimar Republic; in Norwich, Vt. Appointed by Hindenburg in 1930, BrUning tried everything from stern economic measures to rule by decree in an effort to hold the country together Nothing worked, and his near-dictatorial powers earned him many enemies among industrialists and landowners, who turned Hindenburg against him. Bruning resigned in 1932, then fled Germany during the 1934 "blood purge" and later taught at Harvard.

Died. Anna Louise Strong, 84, Nebraska-born writer and unswerving servant first of Soviet and then Chinese Communism; of heart disease; in Peking. Miss Strong became devoted to Marxism while touring Russia with a relief mission in the '20s and spent the rest of her life glorifying it--first from the Soviet Union, where she edited the English language Moscow Daily News and after World War II from Communist China, where she extolled Chairman Mao in a monthly publication Letter from China.

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