Born. To Eldridge Cleaver, 34, Black Panther leader who jumped bail -and fled to Cuba nine months ago following a shoot-out between Panthers and police in Oakland, Calif., and Kathleen Cleaver, 24, the Panthers' communications secretary: their first child, a son; in Algiers.

Married. Carolyn Ann Glenn, 22, daughter of Colonel John Glenn Jr., first American in orbit, a senior at Stanford University; and John Michael Power, 26, a Stanford graduate student; in Palo Alto, Calif.

Married. Robert Taft Jr., 52, grandson of former President William Howard Taft, son of the late Senator Robert A. Taft and himself an Ohio Congressman; and Katharine Perry, 48, a widow and longtime friend; he for the second time, she for the third; in Indian Hill, Ohio.

Divorced. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 46, South African surgeon who in 1967 rose to fame by performing the first successful human heart transplant; by Aletta Gertruida Barnard, 45, a former nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital; on grounds of technical desertion; after 21 years of marriage, two children; in Cape Town, South Africa. Though Barnard obviously enjoyed his celebrity status, his wife was less impressed. "I've got a home to run," she said at one point, "whether we are famous or not."

Died. Frank Loesser, 59, composer-lyricist who gave Broadway Guys and Dolls and many other hits (see Music).

Died. Douglas S. Moore, 75, composer and musicologist, who mined the fields of Americana in his popular operas, notably The Devil and Daniel Webster (1939), Giants in the Earth (1951), and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), which reconstructed the life of Colorado Silver King Horace Tabor; of pneumonia; in Greenport, N.Y.

Died. Charles Edison, 78, son of the famed inventor, former Secretary of the Navy (1939-40) and crusading Governor of New Jersey (1941-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Lacking his father's genius, Edison turned his hand to business and politics--first as president of the family's multimillion-dollar enterprises, then as ardent New Dealer. In 1936, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and three years later assumed the full Cabinet post, in which he supervised the Navy's intensive shipbuilding program. Then, as reform-minded New Jersey Governor, he ran head-on into the corrupt political machine of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, touching off a series of battles that paved the way for the adoption of a new state constitution in 1947.

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