Born. To Nancy Kwan. 25. Hong Kong-born actress, and Austrian Ski Instructor Peter Pock. 25: their first child, a son; in Innsbruck, Austria. Name: Peter Bernhard Pock.
Born. To Martin Luther King Jr.. 34. Negro civil rights leader, and Coretta Scott King. 35; their fourth child, second daughter; in Atlanta.
Married. Fredericka Ann (''Bobo'') Sigrist, 23. jet-set heiress to a British aircraft (Hawker-Siddeley) fortune; and Kevin Donovan McClory. 38. Irish-born English movie producer, who was associate producer with Michael Todd of Around the World in 80 Days: in a Roman Catholic ceremony after church annulment of her first marriage following a civil divorce; in Nassau.
Divorced. By Francoise Sagan, 27. onetime prodigy of French letters; Second Husband Robert Westhoff, 32, American expatriate sculptor; after one year of marriage, one child; in Paris.
Died. John Edgar Breitenbach, 27, proprietor of a Wyoming mountaineering equipment store and member of a 20-man U.S. expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society and several others, now climbing Mount Everest; when an ice wall collapsed and buried him as he worked to improve an ice route cut the previous day on Khumbu Glacier at 17,500 feet. He was the first American to die while trying to climb the world's highest mountain.
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer; in Greenwich. Conn.
Died. Marguerite Skirvin Tyson, 58, sister of famed Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, coheiress of an oil fortune, a warm, friendly woman who collected French antiques, raised champion miniature poodles, and tended to the details of the parties that she quietly co-hostessed with her sister; in Washington.
Died. John Wesley Thompson Faulkner III. 61, younger brother of Author William, a novelist and painter in his own right who created in words and oil paintings a picture of the Deep South at once broadly humorous and fiercely tragic, most notably in his first two books: Men
Working (1941), which told the tragicomic tale of a family of ignorant sharecroppers who came to the town during the Depression to be "on the WP & A," and Dollar Cotton (1942), the picaresque story of the rise and fall of a land-lusting cotton king; after a stroke; in Memphis.