Milestones

BORN. To actor Nicolas Cage, 26 ( Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona, Moonstruck ), and his companion, actress Christina Fulton, 23: a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Weston Coppola Cage. Weight: 8 lbs. 2 oz.

MARRIED. Mary Lou Retton, 22, gold medal U.S. gymnast at the 1984 Olympics; and Shannon Kelley, 25, former quarterback for the University of Texas Longhorns, now a real estate executive; both for the first time; in Houston.

MARRIED. Tom Cruise, 28, film actor ( Risky Business, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July ); and Australian actress Nicole Kidman, 23, his co-star in Days of Thunder ; he for the second time, she for the first; in Colorado.

MARRIED. Roger Vadim, 62, French film director ( And God Created Woman, Barbarella, Pretty Maids All in a Row, Night Games ); and French actress Marie- Christine Barrault, 46 ( My Night at Maud's; Cousin, Cousine; Stardust Memories; Table for Five ); he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Levallois-Perret, France. Vadim was previously married to Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, Jane Fonda and Catherine Schneider.

DIED. Umberto Tirelli, 62, internationally acclaimed costume designer and costume-maker for movies, theater and opera; of an undisclosed cause; in Rome. Tirelli, who started his career as an errand boy in a Milan fabric store, made costumes for The Leopard, Amadeus, Once upon a Time in America and The Name of the Rose , as well as for diva Maria Callas in Luchino Visconti's production of Bellini's Norma . His work has been exhibited at the Louvre in Paris and at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

DIED. Franco Piga, 63, Italy's Minister of State Industry; of a heart attack; in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. A lawyer and university professor, Piga had been a minister in the Giulio Andreotti government since last July. His skills as a mediator helped end a long-running dispute between the government and the private chemical-industry giant Montedison.

DIED. Foy Kohler, 82, quietly effective diplomat and author who was U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1962 to 1966; in Jupiter, Fla. Kohler, whose tour in Moscow began only weeks before the U.S. and the Soviet Union went eyeball to eyeball in the Cuban missile crisis, acted as a conduit for top-secret exchanges between J.F.K. and Nikita Khrushchev. He was the author of several books about the Soviet Union.