Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 23, world's most professional golfer (see SPORT), and Barbara Bash Nicklaus, 23: their second child, second son; in Columbus, Ohio.
Married. Anita Ekberg, 31, Swedish smorgasbord in sexy Italian movies; and Friederick Von Nutter, 33. American bit actor; she for the second time, he for the first; in Viganello, Switzerland.
Died. Charlene Wrightsman Cassini. 35, beautiful wife of Society Columnist Igor Cassini; by her own hand (sleeping pills); in Manhattan (see THE NATION).
Died. Mary Dowell Copeland, 48. Manhattan nightlife's big (6 ft. 3 in.), beautiful "Stutterin' Sam" of the '30s and '40s, a Texas-born show girl and one of Billy Rose's original "long-stemmed American Beauties," who quit at the height of her fame ("I've been a clothes horse for fi-i-i-ve years—how do I know I'm not an idi-i-i-ot?") to try her hand at Hollywood scriptwriting and finally became the happy wife of an advertising executive; of porphyria; in Manhattan.
Died. Joe Jones. 54, landscape painter and muralist, a St. Louis housepainter's son who burst on the art world in the depressed '30s with a Manhattan exhibition of raw, shocking canvases (among them: American Justice, showing a half-naked, just-lynched prostitute against a background of quietly chatting Ku Klux Klansmen), over the years mellowed and developed a softer Japanese-like style in easel paintings, covers for TIME (travel, Christmas shopping), and in sweeping landscape murals, one of the best of which, a 40-ft. by 8-ft. scene of Boston Harbor, adorns the dining salon of the S.S. Independence; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J.
Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa.
Died. Otto Struve, 65, astronomer and foremost exponent of the theory that there is life elsewhere in the universe, a White Russian who fled to the U.S. in 1921 to begin a visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif.
Died. Carl Reinhold Hellstrom, 68, president since 1946 of gunmakers Smith & Wesson Inc., a Swedish-born engineer who joined the company in 1931, found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass.