Born. To Jean Ann Kennedy Smith, 32, youngest sister of Democratic Presidential Nominee John F. Kennedy, and Stephen Edward Smith, 32, a Manhattan tug and barge executive turned fulltime Kennedy campaigner: their second son; in Boston. Name: William Kennedy.
Married. Gary Crosby, 27, oldest son of Der Single and the fourth of five (the exception: two-year-old Harry Lillis III) to marry a Las Vegas show girl; and Barbara Stuart, 27, strapping (6 ft.) blonde; she for the second time; in Las Vegas.
Married. John Robert Russell, 43, tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford, who since opening his ancestral Woburn Abbey estate to the public in 1955 has entertained more than 2,000,000 visitors—including a nudists' convention—at 35¢ a head; and Nicole Milinair, 40, comely, cigar-smoking, French-born TV producer and World War II Resistance worker, who remarked upon receipt of her diamond engagement ring: "It's a nice piece of glass, isn't it?"; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ampthill, England.
Died. Jussi Bjoerling, 49, renowned tenor, a Metropolitan Opera fixture since 1938, who, from his 1929 operatic debut in his native Sweden to his recent re cording of Turandot, displayed a continually improving, distinctive and beautiful voice; of a heart attack; in Siar, Sweden. The heart seizure was at least his fourth since 1959, including one in March at London's Covent Garden while singing Rodolfo in La Boheme. With the Queen Mother in the audience, Bjoerling insisted on completing the performance after only a 30-minute break.
Died. Ralph Gilmour Brooks, 62, a fast-talking (once clocked at 487 words per minute and nicknamed "Babbling") school superintendent who in 1959 became the first Democratic Governor of Nebraska in 18 years, was running this year for the U.S. Senate; of a heart attack; in Lincoln, Neb.
Died. Jimmy Savo (born Sava), 64, gifted vaudeville and Broadway pantomimist of the 19205 and 19305 who made famous his baggy pants and his expression of wile-eyed innocence; of a heart attack; in Terni, Italy. Breaking in as an amateur juggler before the age of ten, the Bronx-born comic sometimes broke his eloquent silence, as in his famed renditions of River, Stay 'Way from My Door and One Meat Ball, hit his Broadway peak in 1938 in The Boys from Syracuse, in 1946 made a nightclub comeback following a leg amputation for a malignant tumor.
Died. Earl Kemp Long, 65, madcap brother of Louisiana's Huey Long and a three-time Governor of the state; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, La. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).