Born. To Maria Montez, 28, the Dominican Republic's gift to Hollywood, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 33, boyish-looking French cinemactor (The Cross of Lorraine), in 1940 a tankman at Sedan: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Maria Christine. Weight: 8 Ibs. 3 oz.

Born. To Monte Proser, 41, Manhattan saloonkeeper, and Jane Ball, 24, stage & screen actress, onetime hoofer at Monte's Copacabana: their first child, a son; in Kingston, N.Y. Name: Charles Morgan. Weight: 7 lbs. 10 oz.

Divorced. By Sonja Henie Topping, 35, tentime world-champion figure skater*: Daniel Reid Topping, 35, playboyish part-owner of baseball's New York Yankees, owner of professional football's New York Football Yankees; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion.

Died. Cornelius Johnson, 29, Negro high-jumper, 1936-41 co-holder (with Negro Dave Albritton) of the world's record; after a two-week bender in San Francisco. His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in Paradise."

Died. Grace Marguerite Lethbridge, Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, 50, peacetime British aviatrix, wartime Girl Friday (through Jap captivity in Manila) to Hearst's aged (72), No. 1 Foreign Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand; of coronary thrombosis ; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Ernst Berl, 68, chemical-warfare specialist for Austria-Hungary in World War I, for the U.S. in World War II, whose process (1940) for converting carbohydrate-containing plants to coal and oil telescoped into a single hour a job that takes nature hundreds of millions of years; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Dr. William Allan Neilson, 76, libertarian, lovable, longtime (1917-39) president of Smith College (world's largest for women); of coronary thrombosis, in Northampton, Mass.

Died. Carl Snyder, 76, economist and statistician whose free-enterprising economics helped shape Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign policy, but whose statistics went awry (by the "calculus of probability" he predicted a Willkie victory) ; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, 91, Viennese orthopedic specialist whose well-publicized knifeless cures of crippled kings and commoners earned him world fame; in Vienna.

*Currently rumored to be taking a sentimental sleigh ride with sox-appealing Van Johnson.

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