Born. To Burt Ward, 21, who plays Batman's teen-age sidekick, Robin, on TV, and Bonney Ward, 20, his wife of a year: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.
Born. To Princess Alexandra, 29, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 37, Scottish businessman: their second child, first daughter, who takes her place as 17th in line to the throne; in Richmond Park, England.
Married. Luci Baines Johnson, 19, and Patrick Nugent, 23; in Washington (see THE NATION).
Divorced. By France Nuyen, 27, French-born Eurasian actress (The World of Suzie Wong): Dr. Thomas Caspar Morell, 33, Manhattan psychiatrist who, La Belle France claimed, "knew how to ignore and destroy a woman's ego"; after three years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Divorced. By Marie Marguerite Louise Gisele LaFleche, 39, known to fans as Singer Gisele MacKenzie: Robert Shuttleworth, 52, her manager; on grounds that he beat her and kept her "emotionally on the rack"; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.
Died. Lenny Bruce, 40, nightclub performer, leading outpatient of the sick-comic school; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Hollywood. Son of an "exotic dancer," trained as a burlesque comedian. Bruce was never in tune with this world, and he soured totally in the 1950s after his beautiful blonde wife became a drug addict, leaving him with an infant daughter. From Manhattan to Hollywood, he viewed life as a four-letter word and, with gestures, commented blackly on it, never lacking for listeners and finding some curious champions (among them: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Poet Robert Lowell). His path led ever lower after a Manhattan criminal court, in 1964, convicted him of being "obscene, indecent, immoral and impure."
Died. Bud Powell, 41, modern jazz pianist, who along with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker brought about the turn from swing to bop in the 1940s, then had a series of mental breakdowns after which his phenomenal inventiveness deserted him, though not the percussive precision and inspired phrasing that influenced most pianists of the past two decades; of malnutrition, tuberculosis and alcoholism; in Brooklyn.
Died. René Schick, 56, president of Nicaragua since 1963, a mild-mannered Managua professor and civil servant who was the hand-picked candidate of the country's all-powerful Somoza family, yet proved less of a do-nothing puppet than expected, largely running his own show and permitting the opposition to raise its voice, while working successfully to industrialize through foreign investment his land's cotton-coffee-cattle economy; of a heart attack; in Managua.
Died. Helen Tamiris, 64, dancer and choreographer who was trained as a classical ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the 1920s, but soon joined with Martha Graham and other rebels to pioneer modern American dance, later choreographed such Broadway hits as Up in Central Park, Annie Get Your Gun and Fanny; of cancer; in Manhattan.