Milestones

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Douglas Root, Alain Sanders and Josh Tyrangiel

BORN. To TONY, 47, and CHERIE BLAIR, 45, Prime Minister and jurist, a boy, their fourth child and the first baby born to a serving British P.M. in 152 years; in London. The baby will be named Leo.

MARRIED. BEN STILLER, 34, diminutive comic actor, and CHRISTINE TAYLOR, 28, actress best known as Marcia in The Brady Bunch Movie; in Kauai, Hawaii.

HONORED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 68, British-born, oft-divorced American star, by Queen Elizabeth II, 74, with the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire; in London.

DIED. MALIK SEALY, 30, Minnesota Timberwolves guard, in a head-on crash with a pickup truck early Saturday morning after reportedly leaving teammate Kevin Garnett's 24th birthday party; in a Minneapolis suburb.

DIED. JOHN SAWHILL, 63, former president of New York University and head of the Nature Conservancy who advised Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter on energy; of diabetes; in Virginia.

DIED. PAUL BARTEL, 61, writer, director and actor whose talent for black comedy was best exemplified in the 1982 cult hit Eating Raoul; of unknown causes; in New York City. Bartel acted in nearly 70 films, including the recently released adaptation of Hamlet.

DIED. KEIZO OBUCHI, 62, former Japanese Prime Minister; six weeks after suffering a massive stroke; in Tokyo.

DIED. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 78, virtuoso flutist who helped restore the instrument to the elevated position it occupied during the 18th century; in Paris. His repertoire ranged from the Baroque giants to jazz and Asian rhythms.

DIED. KARL SHAPIRO, 86, poet whose V-Letter and Other Poems, written while he was in New Guinea during World War II, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize; in New York City. Shapiro's profile dimmed following his early success, but he remained an iconoclast, blasting T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound as detriments to poetry.