Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 38, Australian actress and two-time winner of Broadway's Tony Award (for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Slapstick Tragedy), and Robert Whitehead, 56, Broadway producer (Jean Brodie, Bus Stop): their second child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Charles Albert.

Died. Donald N. Pritzker, 39, president of Hyatt Corp., who, with his two brothers, father and uncle, built a small family law firm into a half-billion-dollar conglomerate of hotel, lumber, farm machinery, banking and mining interests; of a heart attack suffered while playing tennis; in Oahu, Hawaii.

Died. Frank Tashlin, 59, Hollywood director who built his career on the sight gag and slapstick chase; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Originally a cartoon animator, Tashlin graduated to comedy writing in the 1930s and '40s, and to directing in the '50s (The Glass Bottom Boat, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?).

Died. Wheelock H. Bingham, 64, president of Macy's department-store chain for a decade (1956-66), and an aggressive spokesman for the retailing field; of an apparent heart attack; in Southbury, Conn.

Died. Alvin Goldstein Sr., 70, newspaper reporter who shared a Pulitzer Prize with James Mulroy for their help in solving the Leopold-Loeb murder case; in San Rafael, Calif. Goldstein and Mulroy were cub reporters on the Chicago Daily News in 1924 when 14-year-old Bobby Franks was kidnaped. Keeping one step ahead of police investigators, Goldstein identified a newly discovered body as that of Bobby in time to prevent a $10,000 ransom payment, then succeeded in tracing the ransom note back to Law Student Nathan Leopold's typewriter. Goldstein spent the next 40 years as a correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Died. George W. Trendle, 87, creator of The Lone Ranger radio serial; of a heart attack; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. A vaudeville-house owner who switched to radio at the start of the Depression, Trendle sought to turn his struggling Detroit station into a moneymaker with a program that would be "good, clean and long-lived." Hence his Masked Rider of the Plains didn't smoke, swear, drink, fool with women or even kill the bad guys; he did endure and make a fortune for Trendle. The Lone Ranger lasted 20 first-run years on radio and twelve on television, and the show's popularity inspired Trendle to create two more true-blue heroes: The Green Hornet and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

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