BORN. To Annemarie Moser-Proll, 29, competitive, headstrong Austrian 1980 Olympic gold medalist skier and six-time World Cup winner, regarded by many as the greatest woman downhill racer of all time, and Herbert Moser, 32, a ski-equipment salesman: their first child, a girl. Name: Marion. Weight: 6 Ib. 12 oz. Although Moser-Proll once before came out of retirement, she now claims to have quit racing permanently.

MARRIED. Michael Howland, 36, State Department foreign service officer and one of the 52 hostages held captive for 444 days in Iran, and Joan Walsh, 36, also a State Department foreign service officer and hostage, although for only 16 days, after which she, some other women and blacks were released; he for the second time, she for the first; in Ogden, Utah. The couple met when both were assigned to the U.S. embassy in Iran and became reacquainted when both were assigned to State Department jobs in Washington.

DIED. Steve Gordon, 44, cinematic overnight sensation whose second screenplay and directorial debut, the fluffy screwball comedy Arthur, grossed more than $ 130 million at the box office and guffaws of critical approval; of a heart attack; in New York City. A writer of TV commercials and sitcoms, he could not quite believe his Arthurian success, saying last year, "I haven't even started my next screenplay, and already it doesn't work. I just think I fooled them once."

DIED. Marty Feldman, 49, cockeyed, rubber-faced, cockney comedian best remembered as the lovable hunchback Igor in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and as Brooks' zany sidekick in Silent Movie; of a heart attack after completing location filming of a new comedy; in Mexico City.

DIED. Robert Coote, 73, mannered and mustachioed British actor who originated the Broadway roles of Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady and King Pellinore in Camelot, and who, in life as well as onstage, played to a spitting T the part of the frightfully British good fellow; in his sleep, apparently of a heart attack; in New York City.

DIED. Queen Helen of Rumania, 86, stately Princess of Greece and Denmark whose marriage to the irresponsible King Carol II was the stuff of tragic drama; in Lausanne. Seven years after their wedding in 1921, the strong-willed Queen divorced her recklessly unfaithful husband, and later entered a quiet European exile, declaring: "My life has been a sad one for years, and now I am going out into the dark:" Moved by her dignity and grace, Rumanians urged her to resume her royal duties, but thereafter she served only as an unassuming Queen Mother and adviser to her son Michael, who was King for seven years until the 1947 Communist takeover.

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