Born. To Dick Gregory, 41, the bitterest and perhaps the best of America's black social satirists, and Lillian Gregory, 34: their tenth child, third son; in Chicago. Name: Yohance. Gregory, who has been fasting since 1971 to protest the war in Southeast Asia, now weighs 116 lbs. (down from 170). He plans--once again--to give up his nightclub act and become--again--a lecturer on the college-campus circuit. He also plans to start eating--again--when the U.S. stops bombing Cambodia.

Died. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 69, son of the late famed physicist, and a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was best known for his researches into the transportation of sediment in flowing water; following a heart attack; in Falmouth, Mass.

Died. William Lindsay White, 73, editor and publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette and son of William Allen White, the Pulitzer-prizewinning "sage of Emporia"; of cancer; in Emporia. A World War II correspondent for 40 daily newspapers, White in 1942 wrote They Were Expendable, a novel about PT-boat combat in the Pacific that was made into a John Wayne movie. Returning to Emporia in 1944 after his father's death, he maintained the Gazette's reputation for lively editorials.

Died. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, 82, World War I flying ace and former board chairman of Eastern Air Lines (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS).

Died. Frieda Segelke Miller, 83, a feminist and director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor from 1944 to 1953, who nevertheless fought against a proposed equal-rights amendment in 1944, preferring "specific pills for specific ills"; of pneumonia: in Manhattan.

Died. Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 91, Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957 and a symbol of national pride and achievement; in Quebec. A man of patrician and benevolent manner who was often referred to as "Uncle Louis" by his countrymen, St. Laurent reluctantly left a successful Quebec law practice in 1941 to become Minister of Justice in the wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King. As his country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product --sparked by American investment--nearly doubled, Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province, and the country took an increasingly large role as an "honest broker" in international affairs.

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