Born. To Secretariat, horse racing's 1973 Triple Crown winner, whose potential as a superstud was sold to a syndicate for more than $6 million, and Leola, a 13-year-old Appaloosa mare: a male red chestnut colt, the stallion's first offspring; on a farm near Winona, Minn.

Married. Anna Moffo, 39, veteran soprano of New York's Metropolitan Opera and occasional nonsinging movie actress; and Robert W. Sarnoff, 56, board chairman and chief executive officer of RCA; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan.

Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love him."

Died. Johnny Mack Brown, 70, the University of Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl hero, who became a leading man in films with Marion Davies (The Fair Coed) and Mary Pickford (Coquette), then went on to star in Hollywood westerns of the '30s and '40s; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif.

Died. Vittorio De Sica, 73, Italian director and actor who, with Roberto Rossellini, brought a new realism to films; of lung cancer; in Paris. De Sica during the 1920s performed as a romantic lead in stage comedies and musicals, and in the 1930s turned to similar roles in films. In 1940 he directed the first of his 34 movies, but World War II and its devastating effects on Italy moved De Sica to focus his attention on the plight of the poor. He often found his actors among street people, told unadorned tales of poverty and pain, and by 1965 had won three Academy Awards: for Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. A compulsive gambler who lost some $6 million in Europe's casinos, De Sica occasionally lapsed into more commercial ventures (Marriage--Italian Style), but in 1972 he returned to form with another Academy Award winner, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.

Died. Jane Ace, 74, who teamed with her husband, Comedy Writer Goodman Ace, in the popular radio comedy show of the '30s and '40s, Easy Aces, in which he played irritated straight man to her befuddled mistress of misspeak; in Manhattan. Among her inspired malapropisms: "Time wounds all heels" and "Doctor, feel my purse."

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