BORN. To Toshiro Mifune, 62, ruggedly handsome film actor often referred to as the John Wayne of Japan (Rashomon, 1950; The Seven Samurai, 1954; and the TV movie Shogun, 1980); and Mika Kitagawa, 33, his longtime girlfriend and sometime movie actress: his third child, her first (he is still married to his first wife); a girl; in Tokyo. Name: Mika.

DIED. Emmet John Hughes, 61, presidential aide and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, longtime journalist at Time Inc. and author who wrote extensively on the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.J. Despite drafting speeches for Ike's 1952 and 1956 campaigns and working from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years (1963), he became one of the first White House aides to report on the behind-the-scenes workings of an Administration.

DIED. Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London. Beginning her career as a chorus girl in London, Sarah (Lady Audley) enjoyed a modest success on the stage and screen, later wrote books of verse and a memoir. Married three times, and often in the papers after drinking bouts and other extravagant behavior, she once retorted when asked whether she considered her father's name a handicap: "Father never made me feel I had to live it down. The question should be: Am I a handicap to him?"

DIED. Maxwell Joseph, 72, entrepreneur who founded Britain's eighth largest publicly owned company, Grand Metropolitan Ltd.; of cancer; in London. Starting in 1944 with a single London hotel, he parlayed an investment of a few thousand dollars into an empire that includes hotels, restaurants, catering, dairies, one of the world's largest wine and spirit companies and a vast gambling network. An avid gardener and stamp collector, the hotel tycoon managed to work a mere four hours a day and once said, "I do not want to become a prisoner of wealth, weighed down by responsibility."

DIED. Ivan Bagramian, 84, leading Soviet military strategist during World War II and commander of the First Baltic Army; in Moscow. Armenian-born Marshal Bagramian became a national hero in the Soviet Union when in the winter and spring of 1943-44 he directed the campaign that led to the taking of the Baltic republics and the breaking of the Nazi invasion on that front.

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