Born. To Franc, Sagan, 27, French hunt-and-peek novelist of random dalliance who recently published her fifth (see BOOKS), and Robert Westhoff, 31, an expatriate U.S. sculptor: a boy; in Paris.

Born. To Katharine, Duchess of Kent, 29, flaxen-haired descendant of Regicide Oliver Cromwell, and Prince Edward.

Duke of Kent, 26, gay blade in the Royal Scots Greys: a son, tenth in line to the British throne: in Tver, England. Title: Earl of St. Andrews.

Married. Princess Moune Souvanna Phouma, 26, slim daughter of the neutralist among Laos' three princely premiers; and Count Hubert de Germiny, 24, French student of diplomacy; in Paris.

Married. Beatrice Sigrist. 58, widow of Hawker Aircraft Ltd.'s Founder Frederick Sigrist, mother of the jet set's nearly supersonic Bobo Sigrist; and Sir Berkeley Ormerod, 64, retired public relations chief of the British Information Services in the U.S.; she for the third time, he for the first; in London.

Died. Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 59, baseball's fiery Black Irish spark-plug catcher and Lefty Grove's battery mate on Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics, who was sold in 1934 for $100,000 as player-manager to the second-division Detroit Tigers and in four seasons drove the team to two American League pennants (plus two second places) and their first World Series championship, but whose playing career was abruptly ended by a beanball in 1937; after a long illness; in Lake Forest, Ill.

Died. Erwin Service Wolfson, 60, co-founder and top executive of Diesel Construction Co., an Ohio pantsmaker's son who became a prime mover in the skyscraper boom that has altered Manhattan's skyline, topped off his career as contractor and investor with the world's largest commercial office building--the 59-story, $100 million Pan Am Building; of cancer; in Purchase, N.Y.

Died. Frederick Hill Meserve, 96, retired textile executive whose hobby of collecting likenesses of President Abraham Lincoln grew into a unique historical archive (more than 200,000 pictures of Civil War personalities), the source for the busts of the 16th President on the $5 bill and the copper 1 -c-piece, who also turned up a rare photo of Assassin John Wilkes Booth attentively listening in the audience at Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, 99, Britain's oldest peer, who was still spry enough to take at age 89 as his third wife the daughter of an Indian Parsi high priest; in Monte Carlo.

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