Born. To Donna Reed, 36, Oscar-winning cinemactress (From Here to Eternity, 1953), and Tony Owen, 50, movie producer (Beyond Mombasa): their second daughter, fourth child (two adopted); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mary Anne. Weight: 7 Ibs. 10 oz.
Married. Lady Iris Mountbatten, 37, honey-blonde great -granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin of the late King George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten and well-publicized victim (1947) of the quaint American custom of not honoring hot checks (in England "the bank notifies you and you cover the overdraft, all in good taste"); and Michael N. Bryan, 41, well-to-do broker; she for the second time, he for the first; in Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Married. Charles Daly (Charlie) Barnet, 43, saxophonist-jazzband leader ("Sing and Sweat with Charlie Barnet"); and Joy Windsor, 26, blonde singer; he for the ninth time, she for the second, in Yuma, Ariz.
Died. Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca, 17th Marquis de Portago, 28, Spanish millionaire sportsman; in a Mille Miglia road-race crash at the wheel of his Ferrari; at Castelgrimaldo, near Mantua, Italy (see SPORT).
Died. Ezio Pinza, 64, Metropolitan opera basso and Broadway star; of a stroke; in Stamford, Conn. (see Music).
Died. Katie (The Ladykillers) Johnson, 78, elfin, apple-cheeked British actress, who retired "officially" in 1940 (after a 44-year stage and film career), was coaxed back to play the screen role of a fragile, oaken-hearted old lady in the midst of a gang of criminals, won international acclaim and the British Film Academy's 1955 best British actress award; in Elham, England.
Died. Baron James ("Jimmie") Armand de Rothschild, 78, gaunt, monocled (he lost the sight of one eye when struck by a golf ball) millionaire racing-stable owner, great-grandson of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the fabled European banking dynasty, and onetime (1929-45) Liberal Member of Parliament; of a heart attack; in London. The French-born baron, who followed his father, Baron Edmond, in giving enormous sums for Jewish colonization of Palestine, and after 1948 to Israel, inherited the lush Buckinghamshire estate of a great-aunt and became a British subject; he reportedly won between $390,000 and $1,000,000 when his horse Brigand, a 33-to-1 shot, took the Cambridgeshire Stakes in 1919, and further ample sums when his La Reine Lumiere (120 to 1) won the 1925 Grand Prix de Paris.