Born. To Joan Naomi Benny, 20, adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, and Seth Baker, 27, Manhattan stockbroker: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight: 6 lbs. 2 oz.

Married. Ilona Massey, 43, blonde, Budapest-born film and TV actress (Rendezvous, Curtain Call); and Donald S. Dawson, 46, lawyer and onetime administrative assistant to President Truman, quizzed by Senator Fulbright's subcommittee in 1951 about his connections with Washington influence peddlers and RFC loans; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Juarez, Mexico.

Married. Betty Lawford, 44, stage and screen actress, famed as the luscious trollop who for a Broadway season languished in a foam bath in The Women; and Barry Buchanan, advertising and public relations executive; in Manhattan.

Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden, Nev.

Marriage Revealed. Sir Jacob Epstein, 76, famed New York City-born British sculptor, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1954; and Mrs. Kathleen Garman, 50, his sometime secretary for 30 years, model for many of his most famous statues (e.g., The Girl with the Gardenias); both for the second time (his first wife died in 1947) ; in London; on July 8.

Died. Joseph Henry Jackson, 60, Sunday book editor and daily literary columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime radio commentator on books (Bookman's Notebook), anthologist (Viking Portable Murder Book), writer of fact-crime books (Bad Company) and California history (Anybody's Gold); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco.

Died. Professor Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, 82, so-so Russian writer (Recollections of the October Revolution), who advanced his Communist Party career as an expert on urban guerilla warfare, served Lenin faithfully as private secretary, survived purges and Stalin to become one of the U.S.S.R.'s oldest Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow.

Died. William O. Taylor, 84, longtime (since 1921) president and publisher of the Boston Globe, onetime (1934-35) vice president of the Associated Press; in Marion, Mass.

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