Milestones

By Melissa August, Elizabeth L. Bland, Sora Song, Heather Won Tesoriero

BORN. To ANDRE AGASSI, 31, and STEFFI GRAF, 32, tennis stars, a boy, Jaden Gil; in Las Vegas. The couple's marriage was early last week.

BORN. To ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, 52, photographer: a daughter, Sarah Cameron Leibovitz. Neither Leibovitz nor her companion Susan Sontag offered word on the child's paternity.

FIRED. TED FANG, 39, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner; by his mother Florence Fang, chairwoman of the Examiner's parent company. Ms. Fang will take over her son's duties.

DIED. JENNIEANN MAFFEO, 40, senior associate at UBS PaineWebber; of massive burns suffered Sept. 11; in New York City. Maffeo was waiting for a bus outside the World Trade Center when she was hit by a cascade of burning jet fuel. The man who assisted her had a sister and a niece aboard the plane that crashed into the south tower.

DIED. MOHAMMED RAFIQ BUTT, 55, illegal Pakistani immigrant; in a New Jersey jail; of heart failure. Butt was picked up by the FBI for questioning shortly after Sept. 11 but found to have no knowledge useful to its investigation. He was held for overstaying his tourist visa and was to return to Pakistan.

DIED. ELEANOR MCDONALD, 66, breeder of a famously cheerful bichon frise; in Port Chester, N.Y. Her champion dog, Special Times Just Right, known as J.R., winner of 100 best-in-show awards, this year beat 2,500 other dogs to win the top award at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. He responded by jumping into the silver bowl and pumping his paws in the air like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.

DIED. SORAYA ESFANDIARI BAKHTIARI, 69, second wife of the former Shah of Iran; in Paris. In 1958, after seven years of marriage, the Shah divorced the glamorous Soraya because she failed to produce an heir. She never remarried.

DIED. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN, 84, head of one of the art world's wealthiest families; in Paris. The family, which owns a vast but rarely seen collection of great masters, has been roiled in recent years by legal disputes both professional (they were accused of buying art stolen by Nazis) and domestic (the divorce of son Alec from the much surgically altered Jocelyne), said to embarrass the scholarly Wildenstein. It is estimated that he made $3 billion from his art, which funded his other passion, horse racing.

DIED. HOWARD FINSTER, 84, Baptist preacher who was one of the most prominent folk artists of the past century; in Rome, Ga. Finster, whose best-known creation was the evangelical Paradise Garden, a 2 1/2-acre outdoor gallery of sculpture made entirely of trash next to his house in Pennville, Ga., became one of a group of "outsider" artists whose work pushed the boundaries of traditional folk art. Part of his fame resulted from his self-deprecating but outsize personality: he played the banjo on the Tonight Show and designed an award-winning album cover for the rock group the Talking Heads and another for R.E.M. His death announcement on his website and his answering machine said, "He is more alive than he ever has been."

DIED. FRANK CRAIGHEAD, 84, renowned grizzly-bear researcher; in Jackson, Wyo. At a time when bears were thought to be nothing but trouble, Craighead and his brother John followed the animals around Yellowstone National Park for a dozen years, showing in the process their importance in the ecosystem. The Craigheads' work inspired a generation of biologists and conservationists.

DIED. SIR JOHN PLUMB, 90, colorful British historian and oenophile; in Cambridge, England. A working-class boy who fell in love with history and became a prolific author of popular books on the Renaissance and the British monarchy, he also produced more scholarly works. He was considered the resident, somewhat cantankerous genius of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he spent his entire academic career.