Born. To Geraldine Chaplin, 30, Sir Charles Chaplin's cinemactress daughter (Doctor Zhivago, The Three Musketeers), and her lover of eight years, Spanish Film Director Carlos Saura, 43: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Shane.

Married. Jess Thomas, 46, Wagnerian heldentenor of the Metropolitan Opera, and Argentine Publishing Heiress Violeta Rios, 29, who fell in love with Thomas' Tristan three years ago and pursued him for months, tossing roses onto the stage after his performances, until a mutual acquaintance introduced them; both for the second time; in Tiburon, Calif.

Died. Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, India's Minister for Railways; during emergency surgery for wounds suffered in a bomb blast; in Patna, India (see THE WORLD).

Died. Joseph J. Schwartz, 75, activist on behalf of Jewish refugees; in Manhattan. As director of the Joint Distribution Committee of the United Jewish Appeal before and during World War II, Schwartz traveled the periphery of Nazi-occupied Europe from Lisbon to Istanbul negotiating the release of threatened Jews, later helped hundreds of thousands of death-camp survivors reach Israel, Canada, Latin America or the U.S.

Died. Milton Cross, 77, radio announcer, whose sonorous voice became synonymous with opera; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Beginning Christmas Day, 1931, Cross announced Texaco's Metropolitan Opera performances from December to April for 43 years, intoning with hushed excitement countless Saturday afternoons, "The house lights are dimming, and in a few moments the Metropolitan's great golden curtain will rise."

Died. Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin Sr., 78, early aviator who made the first transatlantic dirigible round trip in the Hindenburg; in San Francisco. It was Aldrin's son and namesake who, on the Apollo 11 mission, became the second man to set foot on the moon.

Died. George H. Earle III, 84, New Deal Governor of Pennsylvania; of pneumonia; in Bryn Mawr. Scion of a wealthy Main Line Republican clan, Earle was so moved by the miseries of Depression-stricken workers, which he witnessed from the serving end of a breadline, that he joined F.D.R.'s Democratic Party, and as Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39) pushed through a "little New Deal" of labor, tax and welfare reform, boasting, "We have let no one starve in Pennsylvania."

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