Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 25, golfing great, last year's leading P.G.A. money winner ($113,284) and this year's Masters champ, and Barbara Jean Bash Nicklaus, 25: their third child, first daughter; in Columbus.
Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey.
Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime president (1937-1946) and prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks.
Died. Norman Ernest Brokenshire, 66, one of the best-known U.S. radio voices in the 1920s and early '30s, who started at New York's WJZ as a news commentator ("How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, how do you dor), went on to become a $1,300-a-week announcer for network variety shows (the Chesterfield Hour, Major Bowes' Amateur Hour) until 1934, when heavy drinking cost him his job, after which he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, made a brief comeback in network radio, then went into semiretirement as a part-time announcer for local stations near his home; of a stroke; in Hauppauge, N.Y.
Died. Edward Bremer, 67, St. Paul banker and brewer who was kidnaped by the notorious Barker-Karpis gang in 1934, gained freedom 22 days later on payment of a $200,000 ransom, but had seen and heard enough despite attempts to keep him blindfolded to help the FBI track down his 15 abductors, who either died in gun battles (Ma Barker, her son Fred) or went to prison; of a heart attack; in Pompano Beach, Fla.
Died. Julia Ghilione Skouras, 67, widow of Movie Theater-Chain Executive George P. Skouras (over 200 United Artists houses in 50 cities), herself the tireless, unpaid international chairman of Boys Towns of Italy, who regularly toiled 14 hours a day organizing committees and arranging benefits to support the ten towns and 31 nurseries which now shelter 6,700 Italian orphans; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan.
Died. Lord Mowbray, 69, England's Premier Baron (his title, the country's oldest, dates back to 1283), who in 1962 invoked the rarely exercised peer's immunity to prevent his estranged wife from having him jailed for refusing to return her family heirlooms (a silver matchbox, two trays, two bowls, three swords and a wig); after a long illness; m Harrogate, Yorkshire.