BORN. To Rhea Seddon, 34, one of eight women astronauts and an M.D. trained to conduct experiments in orbit, and Navy Lieut. Commander Robert L. Gibson, 35, also an astronaut and a jet pilot: a son, her first child, his second; in Houston. Within twelve hours of his birth, the first U.S. astrotot logged a helicopter flight after he developed breathing problems and had to be transferred to a second hospital. At week's end his pneumonia-like condition seemed to be under control.

DIED. Tatyana Grosman, 78, enterprising print publisher whose enthusiasm and meticulous dedication to excellence raised lithography to a new level and attracted America's leading artists, including some (Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell) who had never worked in that medium; in New York City. Her company, Universal Limited Art Editions, was based at her West Islip, N.Y., garage, which she had turned into a lively atelier. She sometimes spent months foraging for exactly the right paper for artists. Often the size of her editions, perhaps no more than 25, was determined by the number of perfect sheets available.

DIED. Kenzo Okada, 79, Japanese-American painter and critically admired modernist who combined a gently mystical Oriental mood with a Western abstract style; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. One of the first Japanese artists to work in the U.S. after World War II, Okada often painted five canvases at once, using pieces of wood, rollers, fingers. And, he said, "of course, I also have brushes."

DIED. Lucille Parker Markey, 85, queen of the sport of kings and owner of fabled Calumet Farm; of pneumonia; in Miami. A native Kentuckian, the Grand Lady of the Turf brought a sense of exacting style to the 850-acre, perfectly manicured (23 miles of white painted fences) Lexington farm, which she supervised after the death of her first husband, Warren Wright, in 1950. For more than two decades, Calumet dominated American racing, gathering the Kentucky Derby roses an unprecedented eight times, the Preakness black-eyed Susans seven times and two Triple Crown trophies with Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948). "I love horses," Markey once said, "and I want the best horse to win. As long as he doesn't beat Calumet."

DIED. Harold (Hal) Foster, 89, creator in 1937 of the richly colored, exquisitely drawn Prince Valiant comic strip (now syndicated in 350 newspapers), which was celebrated for its scholarly research on the medieval period and the King Arthur legend; of a heart attack; in Spring Hill, Fla. "God in his wisdom endowed me with certain imperfections," said Foster, "but I have made Prince Valiant as I wish God had made me."

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