BORN. To Talia Shire, 34, actress who specializes in Roman numeral movies, having played roles in Rocky I and II and in her brother Francis Coppola's Godfather I and II, and Jack Schwartzman, 45, executive vice president of Lorimar Productions: a boy, her second child, his third; in Los Angeles. Name: Jason Francesco.

BORN. To William Lee (Willie) Shoemaker, 48. America's winningest jockey, and his third wife Cindy Barnes Shoemaker, 30: a

daughter, their first child (he has an adopted son and daughter from his first marriage and an adopted son from his second); in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda Elizabeth.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Erik Estrada, 31, macho motorcycle policeman on NBC television's CHIPS; and Joyce Miller Estrada, 40, whom he met in Hawaii while recovering from injuries received in a motorcycle accident on location; after seven months of marriage; in Los Angeles.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Harry Reasoner, 57, veteran television correspondent and wry, easygoing anchorman of CBS News's 60 Minutes; and Kathleen Carroll Reasoner, his

wife of 34 years and mother of their seven children; in Bridgeport, Conn.

DIED. Sharif Abdel Hamid Sharaf, 41, Prime Minister of Jordan since December 1979 and a strong Arab nationalist who was one of King Hussein's closest advisers; of a heart attack; in Amman. A distant cousin of Hussein's, he became Ambassador to Washington and the U.N. after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following his appointment as chief of the royal Cabinet in 1976 he had been a hard-line advocate of Jordan's close ties to other Arab states and to the Palestinians.

DIED. C. (for Charles) P. (for Percy) Snow, 74, English scientist, civil servant, playwright and novelist whose writing probed the conflicts of power and conscience; of a perforated gastric ulcer; in London (see BOOKS).

DIED. Hilmar Reksten, 82, once one of the largest operators of independent oil tankers in the world; of cancer; in Bergen, Norway. He parlayed a modest 1929 investment in a cargo steamer into a tanker fleet worth $600 million. His fortunes ebbed when the 1973 Arab oil embargo caused a worldwide slump and left eleven of his twelve supertankers lying idle. In 1979 he was acquitted on charges of evading income taxes on $89 million in foreign earnings. Ironically, he made this year's Guinness Book of World Records for paying a larger percentage of his annual income in taxes--491%--than anyone else in the world.

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