BORN. To Jaclyn Smith, 35, prettiest of Charlie's Angels, and Tony Richmond, 39, cinematographer: a son, their first child (her first, his fourth); in Los Angeles. Name: Gaston Anthony. Weight: 7 Ibs. 13 oz.

MARRIED. James Earl Jones, 51, magnific actor now playing Othello on Broadway, who was the voice of the sinister Darth Vader in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back; and Actress Cecilia Hart; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

HOSPITALIZED. Theresa Saldana, 27, versatile actress who played Jake LaMotta's sister-in-law in Raging Bull; with knife wounds; in Los Angeles. Saldana was stabbed twice in the chest outside her West Hollywood apartment. Police arrested Arthur Jackson, 46, an unemployed Scotsman, and charged him with attempted murder.

HOSPITALIZED. Teddy Pendergrass, 31, rhythm-and-blues singer whose gospel-flavored ballads and sexy disco records have sold in the millions (Life Is a Song Worth Singing, The More I Get the More I Want): with severe neck injuries; in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, injured when he lost control of his Rolls-Royce and smashed into two trees, suffered partial paralysis.

DIED. Nikolai Kamanin, 73, Soviet air hero who piloted a flimsy two-seat biplane in 1934 to help rescue 50 members of an Arctic expedition and who 26 years later, as an air force general, became the first commander of the Soviet Union's cosmonauts; after a "grave illness"; in Moscow.

DIED. Vasili Chuikov, 82, Russian military commander and hero of the Soviets' stalwart defense of Stalingrad during World War II. Chuikov accepted the German surrender of Berlin and headed the Soviet occupation forces in East Germany from 1949 to 1953.

DIED. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 83, retired Air Force major general who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II for negotiating a truce with French soldiers during the Allied invasion of North Africa; in Brentwood, Calif. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J.P. Morgan, later helped set policy for NATO forces.

DIED. Felix Morley, 88, Pulitzer-prize-winning editorial writer (1936) at the Washington Post, author of seven books on economics and politics, and brother of Author Christopher Morley; in Baltimore.

DIED. Louis Kissinger, 95, father of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; in Manhattan. A teacher in Furth, Germany, the elder Kissinger immigrated to the U.S. with his wife and two sons in 1938, just ahead of the Nazi onslaught, and later worked as a bookkeeper.

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