Born. To Sue Lyon, 25, former film nymphet (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana), and Roland Harrison, 33, a Los Angeles photographer; their first child, a daughter. Name: Nona Merrill. -

Born. To Anne Bancroft, 40, and Mel Brooks, 45, who have three Oscars between them (she for her performance in The Miracle Worker, he for his role in writing The Critic and The Producers); their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Maximilian Michael.

Died. Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 60, psychiatrist and medical-journal publisher; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A prominent public-health official in Spain during the '30s, Marti-Ibanez fled the country after the Civil War and immigrated to the U.S. In 1950 he founded M.D. Publications, Inc., parent company for a variety of medical publications (Antibiotics and Chemotherapy, Antibiotic Medicine, and MD).

Died. Cecil Day-Lewis, 68, Irish-born critic, novelist and poet laureate of England; of cancer; in Hertfordshire, England. C. Day-Lewis came to prominence during the '30s as one of the Oxford poets, a group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories.

Died. Dame Margaret Rutherford, 80, dotty, indomitable English matron of stage and screen for nearly four decades; of pneumonia; in Buckinghamshire, England. Rutherford was past 40 by the time she graduated from bit parts in the provinces to stage roles in London's West End. Despite her late start, she appeared in more than 100 major plays and 35 films, and her role in The V.I.P.s earned her a 1964 Academy Award at the age of 72.

Died. Burt A. Massee, 84, founder of Chicago's Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, forerunner of the FBI crime lab; in Orange Park, Fla. A prominent Chicago businessman, Massee was foreman of the coroner's jury that investigated the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. He helped finance the work of ballistics experts in identifying the murder weapons, and their techniques so impressed him that he persuaded officials of Northwestern University to establish a facility to study scientific methods of crime detection. Among the laboratory's achievements was the development of the lie detector.

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