Born. To Jason Robards Jr., 52, star of Broadway's splendid A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Fourth Wife Lois O'Connor Robards, 38, a former TV producer: their second child, first son; in Greenwich, Conn. Name: Jake. -

Died. Rodger Davies, 53, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus (see THE WORLD).

Died. William Daniel ("Deacon") Jones, 58, who drove getaway cars for Bank Robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as a teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston.

Died. Ilona Massey, 62, golden-haired, Budapest-born actress and songstress; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Massey worked her way from seamstress to chorus girl to operatic leads in Vienna, where at 25 she was signed by an MGM talent scout. In 1939 she played a sultry Russian singer as Nelson Eddy's co-star in the Hollywood musical Balalaika, later cut up on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies (1943-44) and fooled with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy (1950). -

Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake (Bronowski himself was a poet and playwright), he recently conceived and narrated The Ascent of Man, a highly acclaimed television series on the triumph of the human race, which will be aired in the U.S. this fall. -

Died. William Ludlow Chenery, 90, editor, then publisher of the late Collier's weekly from 1925 to 1950; in Monterey, Calif. A learned, liberal Virginia-born newspaperman, Chenery led the ailing Collier's to a notable comeback by taking vigorous editorial positions (the magazine was an early champion of Repeal) and recruiting big-name writers--H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey--at top dollar; in 1939 he signed F.D.R. to a $75,000-a-year contract for regular contributions.

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