Born. To Herbert von Karajan, 55, maestro of the Berlin Philharmonic, and French-born Eliette Mouret von Karajan, 28: their second child, second daughter; in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Married. Barbara Davis Sherry, 16, blonde daughter of Cinematron Bette Davis; and Jeremy Hyman, 29, film executive assigned to escort her at the Cannes Film Festival; in Beverly Hills.
Died. Prince Chula Chakrabongse, 55, expatriate member of Thailand's royal family, who in revenge for The King and I wrote Lords of Life, an insider's report of Siamese royalty, leaving little doubt that Yul Brynner's resemblance to any King of Siam ended with his shaven head, and incidentally debunking the belief that King Chulalongkorn had 3,000 wives and 370 children (it was 92 wives and 77 children); of cancer; in Tredethy, Cornwall.
Died. The Rev. Gustave Weigel, 57, Jesuit theologian at Maryland's Woodstock College, urbane and quick-witted author (Faith and Understanding in America), an editor of the Jesuit weekly America, and devoted ecumenicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Gloomy Gus" Weigel, as his friends called him for his visage, not his personality, played a major role in the 1960 Kennedy campaign with a speech stating that the church would not interfere with a Catholic president, acted as informal press secretary at the Vatican's Ecumenical Council, was widely hailed for his understanding of other religions, winning a 1962 honorary degree from Yale as one "who had broken through the Reformation wall and pioneered Catholic-Protestant dialogue."
Died. A. J. Liebling, 59, freewheeling journalist and longtime New Yorker contributor, who turned his sometimes loving, often acid pen to food (no one could pack away more), prizefights (he once fancied himself a not-quite Hemingway-class boxer), World War II accounts of the North African campaign, countless articles on the Wayward Press, and one notable dissection of Chicago: The Second City, whose cry, Liebling insisted, had changed from "Lemme at him" to "Hold him offa me"; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Paul Hindemith, 68, master composer in the German baroque tradition; following a stroke; in Frankfurt (see Music).
Died. Louis ("Louie the Dip") Finkelstein, 73, king of the nation's pickpockets, a dapper, Russian-born master of petty larceny who gleefully boasted of paying $8,000 a year in fines, court costs and lawyers' fees, was arrested a record 121 times in Cleveland alone, once being nabbed with his fingers in the pockets of a police chief, another time with the wallet of a reporter covering his trial, but alas, spent his last years in retirement and on relief after arthritis robbed him of his touch; of a heart attack; in Cleveland.
Died. Ahmed Abboud Pasha, 74, Egypt's richest businessman in the days before Nasser's "Arab socialism," a minor merchant's son who started out as a civil engineer but soon decided that there were more piasters in trade, in the 1940s and '50s piled up a $100 million empire in chemicals, paper, shipping, sugar and cotton, only to have it all nationalized by Nasser in 1961; of heart and kidney ailments; in London.