Born. To William Henry ("Bill") Maul din, 26, baby-faced Pulitzer Prize cartoonist, creator of grimy G.I.s Willie and Joe, and second wife Natalie Evans Mauldin, 24: a son; in Manhattan. Name: Andrew Edgar. Weight: 6 lbs. 13 oz.

Married. James A. Michener, 41, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (Tales of the South Pacific); and Vange A. Nord, 26, publicity writer; in Manhattan.

Died. Russell Maloney, 38, pudgy, chess-playing humorist (It's Still Maloney), onetime New Yorker wit, CBS critic ("Of Men and Books"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 52, founder and chief of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform), Politburo member, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; of arteriosclerosis; near Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL).

Died. Dr. Eduard Benes, 64, ex-President of Czechoslovakia; of arteriosclerosis; in Sezimovo Usti, Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, 65, archeologist, top-rank authority on the ancient Maya civilization; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent some 40 years directing excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala, headed the 1932 expedition which explored the city of Calakmul, one of the big finds of Maya archeology.

Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times.

Died. Sidi Mohamed al-Moncef, 67, mustachioed onetime Bey of Tunis (1942-43), who was deposed as a collaborationist by General Giraud after the North African landings; in Pau, France, where he had been under house arrest since 1945.

Died. Dr. Charles Austin Beard, 73, dean of U.S. historians; of aplastic anemia; in New Haven, Conn, (see EDUCATION).

Died. Dr. Alice Salomon, 76, pioneer social worker and suffragist (the "Jane Addams of Germany") who was exiled by the Nazis in 1937; in Manhattan.

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