BORN. To Michael Bilandic, 55, mayor of Chicago, and Heather Morgan Bilandic, 35: their first child, a son; in Chicago. Name: Michael Morgan.

DIVORCED. Albert Finney, 42, English stage and film actor (among his movies: Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express); and Anouk Aimee, 46, French actress (A Man and a Woman); after eight years of marriage; in London.

DIED. Alan Scott Newman, 28, actor, stuntman, singer and eldest child of Actor Paul Newman and first Wife Jacqueline Witte; after an overdose of alcohol and drugs, including at least eight Valium pills; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Robert Alan Aurthur, 56, television playwright, who wrote for such 1950s series as Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One; of lung cancer; in New York City. A Marine combat correspondent during World War II, Aurthur wrote short fiction for The New Yorker before becoming one of TV's Big Four dramatists (the other three: Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky). Aurthur's award-winning credits included Man on the Mountain top (1954) and A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955).

DIED. Stephen S. Gardner, 56, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1974-76); of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As the patrician chairman of Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors.

DIED. Lennie Tristano, 59, pianist, teacher and composer, who was a pioneer of cool, light, fluid jazz; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman.

DIED. James V. Bennett, 84, innovative director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons from 1937 to 1964; of kidney failure; in Bethesda, Md. An early advocate of rehabilitation rather than punishment, Bennett introduced such then unknown reforms as job training for inmates, halfway houses and "open" prisons without bars or armed guards. His efforts met with success: during his tenure, the recidivism rate for released federal prisoners dropped 50%. After his retirement, Bennett continued to work for prison reform and gun control.

DIED. Giorgio de Chirico, 90, Italian painter, whose early surrealist works helped define 20th century art; of a heart attack; in Rome (see ART).

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