Born. To James A. Farley Jr., 23, Manhattan building-materials salesman and Patricia Dillon Farley, 20; a son, their first child, fourth grandchild of the onetime Postmaster General and Democratic Party big wheel. Name: James Aloysius III. Weight: 7 Ibs. 12 oz.

Divorced. By Elizabeth Taylor, 18, cinemactress: Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 24; after seven months of marriage, two of separation; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. By Joan Fontaine, 33, cinemactress (Rebecca): second husband William Dozier, 42, Hollywood director; after 31 years of marriage, 1 1/2 of separation one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Margaret Hughes Wright, 44, heiress to the Hughes tank & boiler fortune of Warren, Ohio; by Philip L. Wright, 47, head of a small Cleveland steel plant; after 21 years of marriage two children; in Cleveland. Blaming the break-up on her drinking, the judge awarded Wright principal custody of the children and $100,000, something of a record in alimony to a husband.

Died. Captain Don S. Gentile, 30, World War IPs "one man air force" (Franklin D. Roosevelt called him "Captain Courageous"); in the crash of a jet fighter he was piloting on a routine flight; near Washington, D.C. The Ohio-born son of Italian immigrants, Captain Gentile became the war's 7th ranking U.S. ace: he flew 182 combat missions, downed 19 Nazi planes. He leaves a wife and three young sons.

Died. Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, 60, leading Soviet physicist and propagandist, president since 1945 of the U.S.S.R.'s Academy of Sciences, an organizer of the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge; of unknown causes; in Moscow.

Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave him a chance to strike back at Finland's historic enemy. Thus he was logically, if not actually, an enemy of the Allies; but when World War II's outcome was in sight, he made a separate peace. Such was his standing as a patriot and "uncrowned king" of Finland that the Russians did not dare to seek revenge.

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