Born. To King Hussein of Jordan, 32, and Princess Muna al Hussein, 27, his English-born wife: twin girls, their third and fourth children; in Amman.

Married. Stokely Carmichael, 26, Black Power firebrand; and Miriam Makeba, 36, South African singing star, who met Stokely in 1960 during a U.S. tour; he for the first time, she for the third; in Washington, D.C.

Divorced. By Stirling Moss, 38, Britain's retired Grand Prix ace: Elaine Moss, 28, his American-born wife; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after four years of marriage, one child; in London.

Died. The Rev. Aloysius S. Travers, 75, Philadelphia Roman Catholic priest, whose ever so brief career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records--most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face the A's. The fans were mightily amused, but the pros showed no mercy, bombing Travers for 24 runs on 25 hits.

Died. Rudolph Dirks, 91, German-born artist and creator of those comic-strip delinquents The Katzenjammer Kids; in Manhattan. Starting with the old New York Journal in 1897, Dirks was the first to use balloons to enclose dialogue, first to plot a story in consecutive panels, and one of the first to use color. Today his strip (now known as The Captain and the Kids and drawn by his son John) is syndicated in 96 U.S. and 20 foreign papers.

Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn both to his church (he once called Khrushchev "a crusader for peace") and government (De Gaulle, he said, was a "big boob"), he never failed to delight his followers--as when he squelched a heckler on the existence of God with: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Yet it exists."

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