BORN. To Debby Boone Ferrer, 23, pop singer (You Light Up My Life) and daughter of Balladeer Pat Boone, and Gabriel Ferrer, 22, her personal manager and son of Singer Rosemary Clooney and Actor Jose Ferrer: an 8-lb. 1/2oz. son; in Los Angeles. Name: Jordan Alexander.

MARRIED. Angela Davis, 36, firebrand central committee member of the U.S. Communist Party and its candidate for Vice President this year; and Hilton Braithwaite, 36, lecturer in photography at San Francisco State University, where Davis also teaches; she for the first time, he for the second; in Birmingham.

MARRIED. Raquel Welch, 39, sometimes reluctant cinematic sex symbol; and Andre Weinfeld, 33, French film writer and director, whom she met two years ago on location in France; she for the third time, he for the first; at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula.

DIED. Marcus Vinicius Cruz de Mello Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, dramatist and lyricist who collaborated with Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on the international hit The Girl from Ipanema and on the musical drama Orfeu da Conceic,ao, which became the basis for the film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night cafes and clubs, where he sang for his supper the bossa nova and samba tunes he helped to make world-famous.

DIED. Dore Senary, 74, prolific film writer and producer, once known as the "boy wonder of Hollywood"; in New York City. Schary wrote more than 40 scripts, among them the Oscar-winning Boys Town. Starting in 1941 he also produced or oversaw the production of some 300 films, including Lassie Come Home, Blackboard Jungle and Tea and Sympathy. Dismissed as head of production at MGM in 1956 because stockholders were unhappy with company earnings, he turned to playwriting. His 1958 Sunrise at Campobello, won five Tony Awards.

DIED. Gregory Bateson, 76, English anthropologist, psychologist and free-ranging investigator of ideas; of a respiratory illness; in San Francisco. Bateson contributed to anthropology with studies of primitive cultures in collaboration with his first wife, the late Margaret Mead; to psychology with his formulation of the "double-bind" theory to explain schizophrenia; to cybernetics, of which he was one of the founders; and to the study of animal communications. Convinced that a unity underlies the diversity and change in living things, he asked in his latest book, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, "What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to me? And me to you?"

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