Born. To Diana Ross, 28, former lead singer of Motown's Supremes, now starring in the Billie Holiday movie biography, Lady Sings the Blues, and Robert Ellis Silberstein, 28, Los Angeles public relations executive: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracee Joy.

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Married. George Hamilton, 33, star member of Hollywood's lesser leading-man set (The Power, Evel Knievel); and Alana Collins, 27, model; both for the first time; in Las Vegas.

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Died. William R. ("Big Bill") Durnan, 57, All-Star hockey goalie for the Montreal Canadiens during the '40s; of kidney disease; in Toronto. Generally considered the best goalie of modern times, Durnan got a late professional start with the Canadiens at the age of 29. Six times in his seven-year career he won the Vezina Trophy, awarded to the goalie of the least scored-upon team. He also set a modern record by holding opposition teams scoreless for a period of 309 min., 21 sec.

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Died. Sant Fateh Singh, 61, leader of India's 8,000,000 Sikhs during their separatist movement in the '60s; of a heart attack; in Amritsar, India. As spiritual and political guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic cult concentrated in India's Punjab region, Sant Fateh Singh used public fasts and periodic threats of self-immolation to pressure the central government to grant his people statehood within the Indian federal system.

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Died. Mundy I. Peale, 66, hard-driving former president (1947-64) of the old Republic Aviation Corp. (now a division of Fairchild Hiller Corp.) who set production records during World War II, then led the company from nose-diving postwar sales to profitable production of the F-84 Thunderjets used in Korea and the F-105s flown by the Air Force during the early '60s; following a stroke; in Laramie, Wyo.

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Died. Harry Richman, 77, song-and-dance man of the top hat and tuxedo genre who popularized Puttin' on the Ritz, Walking My Baby Back Home and On the Sunny Side of the Street; in Burbank, Calif. After his start as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, Richman won stardom in the Broadway revues of the '20s and '30s, where he introduced standards like The Birth of the Blues and It All Depends on You. One of the highest paid stars of the era, and temporary fiance to "It Girl" Clara Bow, Richman mastered the role of playboy smoothie with his penchant for showgirls, gambling and amateur aviation.

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Died. Ezra Pound, 87, a founding father of modern poetry (see POETRY).

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