Milestones: Dec. 27, 1963

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Born. To Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 25, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie, 25, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika: their first child, a daughter; in Madrid.

Married. John Frankenheimer, 33, TV and movie director (The Manchurian Candidate); and Evans Evans, 28, Broadway and Hollywood starlet; he for the third time; in Paris.

Divorced. By Sybil Williams Burton, 36: Richard Burton, 38; after 15 years of marriage, two children; on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment and abandonment; in Jalisco State, Mexico (see THE LAW).

Divorced. Kurt Herbert Adler, 58, dynamic Vienna-born director of the first-rank San Francisco Opera; by Diantha Warfel Adler, 46; after 23 years of marriage, two children; on grounds of extreme cruelty; in Reno.

Died. Michael Delia Rocca, 62, the Long Island shoemaker who answered The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV in 1956 (a 14-part question involving Wagner premières, Caruso's teachers and a 1908 performance of Aïda), was never involved in subsequent scandals, spent much of his prize bankrolling his hobby, amateur opera performances; of cancer; in Baldwin, N.Y.

Died. Theodore Virgil Houser, 71, former (1954-58) chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., described by his friend and onetime Sears boss, General Robert E. Wood, as the "greatest master of mass merchandising in the U.S."; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Princess Marguerite Caetani, 83, founder and patroness of the Italian literary magazine Botteghe Oscure, a wealthy Connecticut Yankee who wed the scion of an 800-year-old Roman family in 1911, provided a forum for both famed and struggling writers, among them Eliot, Gide, Camus and E. E. Cummings; in Latina, Italy.

Died. Irenee du Pont, 86, one of the world's wealthiest men (estimated empire: $400 million), longtime president and vice chairman (1919-40) of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., world's largest chemicals company, a great-grandson of the founder, who with his late brothers, Pierre S. and Lammot, presided over the company's expansion during and after World War I from munitions manufacturing into paints, plastics, rayon and cellophane, plus a 23% stock interest in General Motors, worth some $3 billion when federal trustbusters finally forced divestiture last year; after a long illness; in Wilmington, Del.