Born. To Charlie Chaplin, 73, ageless genius, and Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 37: their eighth child, third son; in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Divorced. By Actress Janet Leigh, 35, svelte, blonde Hollywood favorite: Tony Curtis, 37, curly-coifed cinemactor; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Jerry Wald, 49, chunky, eclectic moviemaker whose perpetual motion picturing made him one of Hollywood's most prolific producers (The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place, From Here to Eternity); whose detractors claimed he was the prototype for the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?, left a vice-presidency at Columbia Pictures in 1956 to form his own company, had as many as 24 films before the cameras at the same time, once remarking, "If I were a multimillionaire, I'd pick this business as a hobby"; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Died. Roger Wolfe Kahn, 54, test pilot, bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer (Crazy Rhythm, Nobody Loves Me, Imagination), son of Millionaire Art Collector Otto Kahn, who formed his first band before the age of 17, later took up flying, got a World War II job testing the Grumman Wildcat fighter, stayed on to become a top executive for the Long Island, N.Y. planemaker; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. James Thomas Blair, 60, onetime Governor of Missouri (1956-60), a bourbon-drinking friend of Harry Truman, whose major campaign in office was to improve his state's mental health program by building more and better hospitals; and Emilie Chorn Blair, his wife. 58; both from accidental asphyxiation (carbon monoxide fumes sucked into the airconditioning system of their home from the garage where their Cadillac was parked, its engine running); in Jefferson City, Mo.
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn.
Died. Stanley Myer Isaacs, 79, white-haired political reformer and onetime Republican borough president of Manhattan (1938-41), who later served for 20 years (often as the only Republican) on the New York City Council, earned the bipartisan support of both Democrats and Liberals for his long fight to clean up the city's festering slums; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.