Milestones: Apr. 13, 1962

Born. To Takako Shimazu (formerly Princess Suga of Japan), 23, Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, and Hisanaga Shimazu, 28, her bank-clerk husband: their first child, a boy. Rank: commoner.

Born. To Princess Birgitta of Sweden, 25, former gymnastics teacher and granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 29, doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of Munich: a prince (who will automatically be excluded from Lutheran Sweden's royal line of succession because his father is a Roman Catholic).

Died. Mme. Hellé Bonnet. 61.,chic. Greek-born widow of former (1944-55) French...

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