Born. To Arthur Miller, 46, playwright, and Viennese Photographer Ingeborg Miller, 38, his third wife: their first child, a daughter (his third child); in Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital.

Divorced. By Carol Burnett, 29, TV's most manic-expressive comedienne: Don Saroyan, 34, Hollywood actor-director; after nearly seven years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith), 41, five times world's middleweight champion; by ex-Showgirl Edna Mae Robinson, 38; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 19 years of marriage, one son; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Patrick Hamilton, 58, British playwright of chatty chillers, including Rope (1929), first of many versions of the Loeb-Leopold case, and his biggest hit, Gaslight; in Sheringham, England.

Died. Louis Skidmore, 65, co-founder (with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Owings) of the U.S.'s most uncompromisingly modern architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M.'s aggressive, 600-man team that since 1945 has designed $2.5 billion worth of buildings from the U.S. Air Force Academy to Chicago's Inland Steel headquarters.

Died. Lee Hastings Bristol, 69, suave board chairman of Bristol-Myers Co., middle son of Co-Founder William M. Bristol, an advertising enthusiast who put his firm's jingles on the air in the 1920s (later sponsored Duffy's Tavern, Mr. District Attorney) and so, by feeding back up to 26% of sales into promotion, helped build the small pharmaceutical house into a $160 million-a-year top drugmaker; of a heart attack; in Point Pleasant, N.J.

Died. Alexander ("Samson") Zass, 75, famed circus strongman of the '20s who held a grand piano and its player from a wire clenched between his teeth, later bossed the Samson Institute of Health and Physical Culture in London; of a heart attack; in Rochford, England.

Died. Giovanni Porzio, 88, longtime Italian senator and Vice Premier (1948-50), an operatic Neapolitan trial lawyer whose curiosity for peccadilloes and "crimes of honor" led him to defend bored playboys and cuckolded peasants, successfully arguing his last case at the age of 85; in Naples, Italy.

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