BORN. To Indian parents, whose names were not revealed in order to protect their child from repercussions within their nation's conservative Hindu society; the world's second baby conceived outside the human body, two months after the birth of the first such child, Louise Brown; a girl; in Calcutta. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.

ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer."

DIED. Franklin Alton Wade, 75, geologist on Admiral Richard Byrd's two historic Antarctic expeditions in the 1930s; in Lubbock, Texas. Wade narrowly escaped falling into a crevasse and endured serious frostbite while charting the geological history of Antarctica. Describing the latter calamity, Byrd wrote, "Wade was certainly a shocking sight ... his face grossly swollen, the right eye tightly puffed under puffy lids. He looked exactly as if he had stuck his head in a hornet's nest ... No one had seen a worse case of frosting."

DIED. George G. Blaisdell, 83, founder of the cigarette-lighter company from which he received his nickname, "Mr. Zippo"; in Miami Beach. An oilman, Blaisdell noticed a wealthy friend using a cheap, efficient Austrian cigarette lighter and realized that a demand existed for such a gadget. Blaisdell, a trained machinist, marketed his own windproof model on which he gave a lifetime guarantee and, persevering through several years of poor sales, became enormously successful during and after World War II.

DIED. Serge Obolensky, 87, Russian prince who became a publicist and international socialite; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Scion of a wealthy White Russian family and husband of Czar Alexander II's daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper and earned the rank of colonel. He started his own public relations firm in New York in 1949, handling accounts like Piper-Heidsieck champagne. "Serge," a friend once remarked, "could be successful selling umbrellas in the middle of the Sahara."

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