BORN. To Phyllis George Brown, 30, former Miss America and TV personality, and Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 46, former Kentucky Fried Chicken king: an 8-Ib. 4-oz. son, her first child, his fourth; in Lexington, Ky. The parents, expecting a girl, had selected the name Pamela Louise, then settled on Lincoln.

BORN. To Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 46, flamboyant but conformist Soviet poet, and his third wife, Jan Butler, 28, his assistant and translator: a son, their second child; on April 8; in Moscow. Name: Anton.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Carol Lawrence, 45, singer, actress and, most recently, star of TV coffee commercials; and Robert Goulet, 46, glossy baritone and musical comedy actor; after 17 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. They were granted a divorce in 1976, but neither ever filed a final dissolution document; they attempted a reconciliation, but separated again in May 1979.

DIED. Jacob Laib Talmon, 64, Israeli professor of history and international authority on totalitarianism; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. A brilliant lecturer at Jerusalem's Hebrew University since 1949, he was the author of several magisterial books, notably The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, that traced the distortions of the democratic idea by the belief in a "popular will." Talmon recently sparked a debate in Israel when he attacked Prime Minister Menachem Begin's autonomy policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth."

DIED. Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 70, one of the Roman Catholic Church's leading diplomats, who visited 105 countries as a Vatican envoy and was a strong candidate for the papacy after the deaths in 1978 of Pope Paul VI and his short-lived successor, John Paul I; of a blood clot of the lungs; during a visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic dialogue in 1976 by endorsing a document that, through his oversight, contained attacks on Israel. The most affable and approachable of the Vatican's top officials, he corresponded personally with more than 6,000 people, many of them young, who addressed their letters to him "Dear Sergio."

DIED. Bob Nolan, 72, composer of 1,000 western, country and gospel songs, including such classics as Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds; of a heart attack; in Costa Mesa, Calif. In 1931 he formed a trio with Tim Spencer and a young cowboy singer named Leonard Slye, who later changed his name to Roy Rogers and left the group to make movies. Nolan and Spencer later formed a quartet, the Sons of the Pioneers, and appeared in dozens of films with Rogers in the 1930s and '40s.

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