Born. To Eddie Fisher, 39, nightclub crooner, and Connie Stevens, 29, TV and movie actress: a daughter; in Burbank, Calif. They had not previously announced that they were married and, although Eddie now said they were, nobody could care less.

Married. Margaret Smith, 25, strapping queen of Australian tennis (twice Wimbledon winner, seven times Aussie national champion); and Barry Court, 26, real estate salesman; in Perth.

Married. Oscar de La Renta, 34, Manhattan fashion designer, and Francoise de Langlade, 36, former editor of French Vogue; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING).

Died. Dr. Ludwig Roth, 58, German-born rocket engineer; of pneumonia; in Redondo Beach, Calif. Chief designer of the V-l "buzz bombs" that crashed on London in World War II, Roth joined the German rocketeers brought to the U.S. in 1945, contributed greatly to NASA programs.

Died. Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 67, past chairman of Alcoa aluminum; after a stroke; in Philadelphia. During a 40-year career with the nation's largest aluminum producer, he tramped African jungles, struck oil in Texas and saw sales top $1 billion in 1964.

Died. Julien Duvivier, 71, French movie director; of an apparent heart attack; in Paris. A veteran of silent films, Duvivier first used a series of character-study vignettes in 1937's Carnet de Bal to illuminate the movie's main theme. Among his other remembrances: 1951's The Little World of Don Camillo, starring Fernandel.

Died. Thomas A. Morgan, 80, longtime head of Sperry Corp.; of a heart attack; in Henderson, N.C. Though he was not a flyer, in the early 1930s Morgan was president of North American Aviation and Curtiss-Wright, as well as Sperry Gyroscope; in 1933 he concentrated on Sperry, diversified into missiles and hay balers, and boosted annual sales from $3,000,000 to $240 million by retirement in 1952.

Died. Clare E. Hoffman, 92, long-time (1935-63) Republican Congressman from Michigan; of pneumonia; in Allegan, Mich. Hoffman generated so much bile over F.D.R., the New Deal, organized labor, and U.S. internationalism that even fellow Republicans were uneasy in his terrible-tongued presence, and Massachusetts' Democrat John McCormack was once moved to remark: ''I hold all my colleagues in highest esteem. I hold the gentleman from Michigan in my minimum-highest esteem."

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