Born. To James Taylor, 29, and Carly Simon, 32, of pop fame: their second child and first son; in Manhattan. Name: Benjamin Simon. The birth was tape-recorded and preserved on Polaroid film.
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Died. Gary M. Gilmore, 36, convicted murderer who was the first American to be executed in nearly a decade; shot by a firing squad; at the State Prison, Point of the Mountain, Utah (see THE LAW).
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Died. Yuri Soloviev, 36, one of the world's leading ballet dancers; of a gunshot wound (apparently by his own hand); outside Leningrad. Soloviev's exuberant grace and brilliant...
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