Born. To Princess Margriet, 26, third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and Pieter van Vollenhoven, 29, her commoner husband: their second son and second child; in The Hague.

Married. Russell B. Long, 51, Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1948, son of Huey ("Kingfish") Long; and Carolyn Bason, fortyish, a Capitol Hill secretary; he for the second time (his wife of 30 years divorced him last June); in a quiet Presbyterian ceremony in McLean, Va.

Died. Josef von Sternberg, 75, Austrian-born director of notable films in the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Flamboyant and volatile, Sternberg wanted no part of the then-standard Hollywood formula of saccharine pap; his works were starkly realistic, and as early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well-remembered films, among them Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Scarlet Empress (1934).

Died. General Georges Catroux, 92, French officer whose career mirrored his nation's colonial fortunes; of influenza; in Paris. Catroux led troops during the conquests in North Africa, the Middle East and Indo-China, but later joined De Gaulle in dissolving the empire. He personally issued the proclamation freeing Syria in September 1941 and Lebanon two months later, in 1955 negotiated the return of the Sultan of Morocco to his throne and later vigorously supported Algerian independence. For all of this he earned De Gaulle's praise as a soldier "possessing the sense of the greatness of France."

Died. General Tiburcio Canas Andino, 93, President of Honduras from 1933 to 1948 and stereotype Central American dictator; of a lung infection; in Tegucigalpa. Huge, mustachioed and of Indian descent, Andino was something of a popular hero when he was elected President in 1932. He did achieve a measure of political stability in an unstable country (116 Presidents in 108 years of independence) as well as some economic progress. But his hero image faded swiftly when he began ruling by fiat and filled the prisons with those who protested, all the while illegally extending his term. In 1949, he handed power over to a handpicked successor, who turned out to be less of a puppet than expected, made certain that Andino never resumed power.

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