Born. To Natalie Wood. 32. Hollywood veteran (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice], and Richard Gregson, 40, her producer husband of 16 months: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Married. Donovan (real name: Donovan Leitch), 24, Britain's versatile, vibrato-voiced minstrel (Isle of Islay): and Lynda Lawrence, 23, girl friend of the Rolling Stones' late Brian Jones; both for the first time; in Windsor, England.

Died. James Fisher, 58, British ornithologist and conservationist; of injuries received in an auto accident; in London. Britons knew him as a sort of apostle for bird watching who kindled their interest through more than 700 radio programs, 200 TV appearances and 27 books. American bird watchers remember his Wild America, which he co-authored with Roger Tory Peterson, an account of their field trip in 1953, during which Fisher logged 601 different species of birds in 100 days.

Died. John Dos Passes, 74, novelist-chronicler of the post-World War I generation (see THE NATION).

Died. Gilbert Seldes, 77. author, critic and longtime booster of the popular arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1924 Seldes stirred a sensation with his The Seven Lively Arts, in which he argued that Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, jazz, the circus and burlesque had it all over the Barrymores, the Metropolitan Opera or the works of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed, he made a case that Krazy Kat, the comic strip, was the most satisfactory work of art then produced in America--all of which enraged serious critics of the day and titillated Seldes' many fans.

Died. Edward Everett Horton, 84, persimmon-faced comedian who starred on stage, screen, radio and TV for more than 60 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. With an apologetic stoop, a wry grin and timely double- (sometimes triple) take, Horton made his comic way through almost 3,000 stage revivals of Springtime for Henry and more than 100 movies, including several with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat, Shall We Dance?). Why so often the supporting roles? Said Horton: "I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid for it."

Died. Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, 91, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals, who served as a papal nuncio in Chile and Brazil for 27 years, then acted briefly as chief executive of the Vatican interim administration after the deaths of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and Pope John XXIII in 1963; of kidney disease; in Rome.

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