Born. To Joanne Chesimard, 26, an alleged leader of the Black Liberation Army who is now awaiting trial for murder, and Fred Hilton, 21, reputed B.L.A. member who, with Chesimard, was acquitted of bank-robbery charges last year: a girl. The child, born in a Queens, N.Y., hospital while a contingent of uniformed patrolmen stood guard, was conceived in a detention room after Chesimard and Hilton were dragged out of the adjoining courtroom for disorderly conduct during their bank-robbing trial last December.

Married. Eugene Paul Getty II, 17, grandson of American Oilman J. Paul Getty; and Martine Zacher, 25, sultry German model-turned-photographer and expectant mother; he for the first time, she for the second; in Sovicille, Italy. The couple plan to film a documentary about the 1973 kidnaping that cost Getty his right ear before he was ransomed for $2.9 million.

Died. Patricia Cutts, 47, blonde, British-born actress who scored with U.S. audiences as a regular panelist on the 1950s TV quiz show Down You Go, and three months ago joined the cast of the long-run British soap opera Coronation Street; of barbiturate poisoning; in London.

Died. John Merriman, 50, who joined CBS News in 1942 as a page, later worked as a writer, reporter and, since 1966, as news editor for the Walter Cronkite evening news show, in the crash of an Eastern Airlines jet; in Charlotte, N.C. During his career, Merriman produced the award-winning CBS radio broadcast, "The World Tonight," covered the Senate-McCarthy hearings for the network during the 1950s, and two years ago earned an Emmy for his reporting of the Apollo space flights.

Died. Miriam Young, 62, novelist (Heaven Faces West) and children's book writer whose bestselling autobiography about life with her vaudevillian parents (Mother Wore Tights) was turned into one of Hollywood's most extravagant movie musicals of the 1940s; of cancer; in Lake Katonah, N.Y.

Died. Lois Lenski, 80, illustrator and author of more than 50 children's books (Strawberry Girl, Judy's Journey); in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Lenski's well-researched tales of children in a variety of environments earned her a Newberry Medal in 1946 and top honors from the Child Study Association of America a year later. "Through movies, mass magazines and radio," she once said, "we get the idea that we all live alike. But it's not true at all. This is what I'm showing the children."

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