BORN. To Tommy Lee Jones, 36, Harvard-educated, country-boy star of Coal Miner's Daughter, who will play Gary Gilmore in the forthcoming TV adaptation of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, and Kimberlea Jones, 25, photojournalist; their first child, a son; in Auckland, N.Z.

DIED. Kim Duk Koo, 23, bruising South Korean lightweight boxer whose 17-1-1 record earned him the World Boxing Association's No. 1 contender ranking; of a brain hemorrhage suffered in a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini; in-Las Vegas (see SPORT).

DIED. Catherine Mackin, 44, a network news correspondent for eleven years; of cancer; at her home in Towson, Md. Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics.

DIED. Joseph Kipness, 71, bouncy, bustling Broadway producer and restaurateur (Joe's Pier 52), who with bottomless enthusiasm made and lost fortunes backing such hits as La Plume de Ma Tante and High Button Shoes (727 performances) and flops like Frankenstein (which lasted one night and cost more than $2 million); of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. Vinoba Bhave, 87, saintly ascetic who inherited Mahatma Gandhi's role as India's spiritual conscience; after observing the tradition of embracing death with a weeklong fast, following a heart attack; in Paunar, Maharashtra, India. Slight but vigorous ("a Hercules," said Gandhi), Bhave was a loinclothed apostle of social reform who owned no possessions and tramped 45,000 miles barefoot around India, preaching nonviolence and soliciting contributions of land for the poor.

DIED. Babette Deutsch, 87, poet and critic whose most luminous gift was for losing herself in another's aesthetic identity, either in translations of Russian poetry or in her own compact, restrained, imagistic verse that celebrated artists she admired (such as Wallace Stevens and Georges Braque); in New York City.

DIED. Achille Lauro, 95, self-made shipping tycoon and two-term mayor of Naples whose flamboyant generosity brought color and chaos to his adoring city; of a heart attack; in Naples. Having thrice lost and rebuilt a shipping empire, Lauro became mayor in 1952 and ruled with the profligate munificence of a Godfather, distributing banknotes and spaghetti to voters, erecting magnificent fountains, even abolishing traffic lights.

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