Born. To Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge), 46, onetime Prime Minister of Hungary, who resigned (May 1947) after the Communists seized power, became a Virginia dairy farmer, and Julia Nagy, 43: their fourth and fifth children, twin daughters; in Arlington, Va. Names: Mary Susan and Sophia Katherine.

Died. Saly Mayer, 68, Swiss lace manufacturer credited with saving some 200,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime collapsed.

Died. Luigi Cardinal Lavitrano, 76, prefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of Religious,* onetime (1929-45) Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily) ; in Marino, Italy.

Died. Nina Boucicault (Mrs. Donald Innes Smith), 83, British actress for whom Playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie created the role of Peter Pan (premiere: London, 1904); in Ealing, England.

Died. The Rev. Francis Dunlap Gamewell, 92, Methodist missionary in China from 1881 to 1930, a hero of the Boxer Rebellion; in Clifton Spring, N.Y. He was a professor of chemistry at Peking University when Chinese troops laid siege to the city. Appointed "chief of staff" of the British, U.S. and Chinese civilian defenders, he fortified his mission, stood off attackers for 56 days until an allied army lifted the siege.

* Which oversees Roman Catholic religious orders.

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