BORN. To Donny Osmond, 21, co-host of TV's Donny & Marie show, and Debra Glenn Osmond, 20: a son, their first child; in Provo, Utah. Name: Donald Clark Jr

BORN. To Jimmy Connors, 26, perennially petulant tennis star, and Patti McGuire Connors, 27, Playboy's 1977 Playmate of the Year: a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Brett David.

DIED. Thurman Munson, 32, captain of the Yankees and one of baseball's great catchers; when the small jet he was piloting crashed just short of an airport runway near Canton, Ohio (see SPORT).

DIED. Henry Robbins, 51, distinguished editor in chief of E.P. Dutton's trade book division whose imprint, "A Henry Robbins Book," appears on the current bestseller by John Irving, The World According to Garp; of a heart attack; in a New York City subway station.

DIED. Jules Irving, 54, co-founder and codirector, with Herb Blau, of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop (1952-65), artistic director of Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater and experimental Forum (1967-73), and later a TV director (Rich Man, Poor Man); of a heart attack; in Reno.

DIED. William S. Todman, 62, pioneering radio and TV producer who, with his partner Mark Goodson, pioneered the game show, creating TV's current smash hit Family Feud and What's My Line?, which ran for 17 1/2 years; following heart surgery; in New York City. In addition to employing 90 television researchers in the search for convincing impostors for To Tell the Truth and offbeat confessors for I've Got a Secret, the "Gold Dust Twins" built a communications empire that once included 17 newspapers.

DIED. George Seaton, 68, prolific, perdurable screenwriter (The Song of Bernadette, 1944), producer (The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1955) and director (Airport, 1970); of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The original Lone Ranger on radio, at 22 Seaton went to Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl (1954).

DIED. Herbert Marcuse, 81, Marxist philosopher and guru of '60s youth; of a stroke; while visiting in Starnberg, West Germany (see NATION).

DIED. Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 88, chief of the Vatican's Holy Office under Pius XII and John XXIII and self-described 'policeman" of the Roman Catholic faith; if bronchial pneumonia; in Vatican City (see RELIGION).

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