Milestones: Oct. 21, 1966

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Born. To Anna Maria Alberghetti, 30, onetime opera singer (The Medium) turned musical-comedy star (Carnival), and Claudio Guzman, 39, Chilean-born TV director (I Dream of Jeannie, Love on a Rooftop); their first child, a girl; in Los Angeles.

Married. Melvin Belli, 59, California lawyer best known for his pyrotechnics in prosecuting negligence suits until he leaped to the defense of Jack Ruby in 1964; and Patricia Montandon, 34, San Francisco model; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Jozankei, a hot-springs resort in northern Japan, where, dressed in kimonos, they went through a Shinto ceremony.

Divorced. Ted Williams, 48, terrible-tempered baseball great; by Lee Howard Williams, 41, ash-blonde ex-fashion model, his second wife; on grounds that "he made life unbearable with constant obscene criticism" (like cursing at her and kicking the tackle box while they were fishing); after five years of marriage, no children; in Miami.

Died. Roland Reynolds, 29, grandson of Reynolds Metals Founder Richard Reynolds, who was starting his way up the family ladder as an executive in the company's subsidiary Eskimo Pie Corp.; of head injuries suffered when he accidentally walked into the spinning propeller of a twin-engined light plane he was thinking of buying; in Richmond.

Died. Captain Robert H. Morgan, 32, and Major Frank Liethen, 36, members of the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds acrobatic team assigned to demonstrate high-speed precision flying in air shows; of injuries suffered during practice maneuvers; near Indian Springs, Nev. Morgan, who was flying an F-100F Super Sabre with Liethen, the Thunderbirds' executive officer, as observer, was practicing "opposing half Cuban eights" with a teammate when they scraped planes in a head-on pass at the top of their outside loops. The other pilot managed to land safely; Morgan ejected, but his chute failed to open, and Liethen rode their crippled plane to his death.

Died. Jane Bunche Pierce, 33, U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche's daughter, a housewife with three small children; of injuries suffered when she fell or jumped from the roof of her nine-story apartment building; in The Bronx, New York City.

Died. Kurt Bolender, 54, onetime Nazi SS sergeant who was working under an assumed name in a Hamburg brewery in 1961 when he was arrested as a war criminal, accused of having murdered some 360 inmates and assisted in the deaths of 86,000 more at Sobibor, a World War II extermination camp in Poland, charges he denied throughout his long, still uncompleted trial; by his own hand (he hanged himself in his cell, leaving a suicide note insisting that he was innocent); in Hagen, West Germany.

Died. Otto Spaeth, 69, industrialist and art patron who made a fortune in real estate and machine tools (Dayton Tool & Engineering Co.), used it to build a notable private art collection, including masterpieces by Braque, Picasso, Corot, Gauguin and Cezanne, but in recent years concentrated more on aiding lesser-known contemporary artists and working to improve church architecture through his Spaeth Foundation awards; of cancer; in Manhattan.

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