Milestones, Jul. 30, 1979

BORN. To Lord Snowdon, 49, English photographer whose 19-year marriage to Princess Margaret ended in divorce in May 1978, and the Countess of Snowdon, 37, the former Lucy Lindsay-Hogg: a daughter, her first child and his third.

DIVORCED. O.J. Simpson, 32, running-back star of the San Francisco 49ers and Hertz Rent-A-Car commercials; and Marguerite Simpson, 30, an amateur painter; after eleven years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

DIED. Alfred Deller, 67, self-trained English singer who revived the long-lost art of the countertenor, male singing in the alto range; of a...

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