Born. To Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, South African heart surgeon and transplant pioneer; and his second wife Barbara, 21, daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist: their first child, a son; in Cape Town.

Died. Ralph Bunche, 67, retired Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize (see THE WORLD).

Died. Yoichiro Makita, 68, president of Japan's fifth largest corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; of complications from a peptic ulcer; in Tokyo Makita became head of the mammoth company in 1969, set out immediately to forge an agreement allowing Chrysler Motors to market Mitsubishi's Colt in the U.S., the first such deal between Detroit and a Japanese manufacturer. Makita took unabashed pride in the fact that Mitsubishi's chief products during World War 11 were warships and Zero fighter planes, and was an outspoken advocate of Japan's rearmament "Now that our G.N.P. is third in the world," he said, "now that we are among the rich, we have to guard against burglars."

Died. Andrei Andreyev, 76, former deputy of Joseph Stalin and one of the Soviet Union's most durable Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow. Virtually unknown outside the U.S.S.R., Andreyev was a ruthless administrator who, as head of the nation's outmoded railway system during the early 1930s, ordered malingering workers shot. Later entrusted with responsibility for postwar farm collectivization, he was blamed by Stalin for agricultural failures and purged from the Politburo. However, he re-emerged shortly after the dictator's death as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a post he held for the next nine years.

Died. Mathilda Kschessinska, 99, prima ballerina assoluta of the Russian Imperial Ballet at the turn of the century and mistress of the Czarevich before he became Nicholas 11; in Paris. Isadora Duncan described her as "more like a lovely bird or butterfly than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family--she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky--made her a target of the Bolsheviks, who sacked her St. Petersburg mansion during the 1917 revolution. Forced to flee the country in 1920, she later established a studio in Paris, where she taught for 35 years. Kschessinska was 63 when her farewell performance at London's Covent Garden received 18 curtain calls.

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