BORN. To Marie Osmond, 23, wholesome, toothy singer, and Stephan L. Craig, 26, her husband often months, a business student at Brigham Young University: their first child, a son; in Provo, Utah. Name: Stephen. Weight: 7 Ibs. 7 oz.

BORN. To Barbara S. Thomas, 36, a lawyer who is only the second woman ever named to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and at the time of her appointment in 1980 was the youngest SEC commissioner ever, and Allen Lloyd Thomas, 43, a lawyer in New York City: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Allen Lloyd Thomas Jr. Weight: 7 Ibs. 13 oz.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 35, pop composer who currently has three hit musicals running in New York City (Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats); and Sarah Jane Tudor, 34, his wife of twelve years and mother of his two children; in London.

RECOVERING. Karla Woods, 23, waitress who had been pronounced dead and placed on a morgue table for autopsy when a police detective noticed her swallowing, after which she was rushed to a nearby hospital and revived; in Champaign, Ill. After taking medication, she developed hypothermia, or low body temperature, so extreme that her breathing was suspended and her pulse undetectable.

HOSPITALIZED. Ethel Merman, 74, clarion-voiced Broadway performer for 50 years; for surgery to remove a brain tumor; in New York City. Ever the trouper, Merman regained her speech two days after the operation, and within a week was singing and walking around her room.

DIED. Jerzy Andrzejewski, 73, one of Poland's finest novelists and a leading political dissident; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. The best known of his novels was Ashes and Diamonds (1948), a study of confusion and despair at World War IIs end. Andrzejewski was an insistent protester against censorship; in 1976 he helped found the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR), which was integrated into the now outlawed Solidarity union in 1981.

DIED. Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 75, former swimming champion and 1930s film star best known as the original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers; in Scottsdale, Ariz. After winning a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, he moved to Hollywood, eventually calling himself "King of the Serials" for his intrepid science-fiction roles. Crabbe later became a fitness and exercise advocate, swimming a steady two miles a day well into his 70s.

DIED. Earl Kenneth ("Fatha") Nines, 77, jazz pianist for 50 years and a seminal figure in American popular music, who in the 1920s severed the piano from its ragtime connections and pioneered a distinctive new sound; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. As leader of his own big band for two decades, he nurtured such future jazz stars as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan.

DIED. Walter Slezak, 80, convivial Austrian-born character of stage and screen who specialized in plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star--with a chimp--in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.