MILESTONES

EXPECTING. NANCY KERRIGAN, 26, Olympian on ice; her first child, with husband-agent Jerry Solomon, 41; in Boston. The premiere of the junior Kerrigan is expected in December.

BORN. To SUSAN MOLINARI, 38, U.S. Representative from Staten Island, New York, and BILL PAXON, 42, U.S. Representative from Buffalo, New York: a girl, Susan Ruby; in Staten Island. Both parents are Republicans.

RETIRING. GRINDSTONE, 3, Thoroughbred; after winning the Kentucky Derby at the cost of a career-crippling bone chip in the knee; in Louisville.

AILING. BRETT BUTLER, 38, Dodgers center fielder; from cancer; in Los Angeles. In the course of a scheduled tonsillectomy, Butler's doctor discovered a cancerous tumor on the ballplayer's right tonsil and removed it. Butler faces further surgery, to be followed by weeks of chemotherapy before the state of his career and his health can be determined.

DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists.

DIED. JACK WESTON, 71, bald, burly character actor who stalked Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film Wait Until Dark; of lymphoma; in Manhattan.

DIED. HELEN KREIS WALLENDA, 85, the last of the original Great Wallendas high-wire act; in Sarasota, Florida.

DIED. DONALD MCNEILL, 88, radio-TV host for the 36 years of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club, a popular morning show with an amiability now lost in the age of Stern; in Evanston, Illinois.

DIED. CARDINAL LEO JOZEF SUENENS, 91, former Roman Catholic Primate of Belgium and moving force behind the reforms of Vatican II; in Brussels.