Born. To William Sylvester Girard, 23, ex-G.I. who was convicted last fall by a Japanese court (and put on suspended sentence) for shooting a Japanese woman scavenging brass from a U.S. Army firing range, and Haru Sueyama ("Candy") Girard, 30, who married him after the killing and before the trial: a daughter, their first child; in Ottawa, 111. Name: Roxanne Marie. Weight: 6 Ibs. 5 1/2 oz.

Married. Marie Dionne, 24, one of four survivors of the famed Canadian quintuplets, who in 1953 entered a convent to become a nun, but left before taking her permanent vows; and Florian Houle, 38, onetime student for the priesthood, and now a clerk at the Quebec Superior Court; in Montreal. Of the living quints, only Yvonne is now unmarried.

Divorced. Rock Hudson (real name: Roy Fitzgerald), 32, he-mandibled cinemactor (A Farewell to Arms)] by Phyllis Gates Fitzgerald, 32, his agent's onetime secretary; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Gladys Smith Presley, 42, mother of Crooner Elvis Presley; of a heart attack; in Memphis.

Died. Gordon Evans Dean, 52, a senior vice president of General Dynamics Corp., onetime (1950-53) chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and later critic of U.S. atomic policy, assistant dean at Duke University Law School (1930-34); in the crash of a Northeast Airlines Convair; in Nantucket, Mass, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Henry Russell ("Red") Sanders, 53, single-winging head football coach at U.C.L.A., witty, whiplashing team driver who pushed the university into big-business football, undefeated Coach of the Year in 1954; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

Died. Wolcott Gibbs, 56, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, author of the 1950 Broadway hit comedy Season in the Sun, which chronicled the sins and insecurities of the Manhattan literary set's Fire Island summer resort; of a heart attack at his summer home on Fire Island, N.Y.

Died. Frederic Joliot-Curie, 58, atomic physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1935, member of the French Communist Party's Central Committee, winner of a Stalin Peace Prize in 1950; following surgery for an internal hemorrhage; in Paris. Marrying Irene Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Frederic Joliot added their name to his own. With his physicist wife, who died of leukemia in 1956, he won the Nobel for discovering that radioactivity could be produced in the laboratory in elements which were not naturally radioactive. This first opened the possibility of widespread use of radioactivity in biology, medicine and other scientific fields. A resistance fighter during World War II, Joliot-Curie became French High Commissioner for Atomic Energy in 1946, was dismissed from the job in 1950 because of his Communist affiliations.

Died. Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 59, sometime Labor member of the British Parliament, governor of the Leeward Islands (1948-50), leftist son of the late between-the-wars Prime Minister and Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin; following surgery for a gastric ulcer; in London. Oliver's politics shocked the elder Baldwin, and the son was not overawed by his father's achievements. "He has been lucky," Oliver wrote in 1937. "His patience and inborn laziness have been among his greatest assets."

Died. Malcolm Lockheed (changed from Loughead), 71, aeronautical engineer, founder with his brother Allan of the Lockheed Aircraft Co.; in Mokelumne Hill, Calif.

Died. Mary Ritter Beard, 82, historian, co-author with her late husband Charles A. Beard of The Rise of American Civilization and A Basic History of the United States; in Phoenix, Ariz. Mary Beard argued that, between the sexes, women hold the lesser place in history because men write the history books.

Died. Anson Phelps Stokes, 84, elder statesman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, longtime canon of the Washington Cathedral, secretary of Yale University (1899-1921), author of the three-volume Church and State in the United States, father of Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts; in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1900 he was graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. Named secretary of Yale at 25, he also served as assistant minister of St. Paul's Church in New Haven, Conn, from 1900 to 1918. As canon of Washington Cathedral (1924-39), he organized the Committee on Religious Life in the capital, gave his energy to the advancement of Negroes, was a trustee of Tuskegee Institute.

Died. Chevalier Jackson, M.D., 92, laryngologist, developer and master manipulator of the bronchoscope, the tool long used by physicians in removing foreign bodies from the lungs; in Philadelphia. From throats, lungs and stomachs, Dr. Jackson scoped up pins, pin money, and such exotic finds as a padlock, a pocket watch, a crucifix and a toy battleship--all swallowed by his patients, who in decades past, to a chorus of headlines, were sped from all parts of the U.S. to his Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic at Temple University Hospital.

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