BORN. To Olivia Hussey, 30, comely British actress who beguiled a generation in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet, and her husband, Japanese Rock Star Akira Fuse, 35: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Maximilian.

DIED. Ichiro Nakagawa, 57, Japan's youngest, most militantly right-wing 1982 prime-ministerial aspirant and a persistent champion of nuclear arms development for his country; by his own hand (he hanged himself with his kimono sash); in Sapporo. A colorful country boy who swaggered into the Diet's lower house in 1963, Nakagawa ten years later helped found the Seirankai, a secretive ultratraditional group whose 31 members helped one another gain clout in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including two Cabinet positions for Nakagawa. But after finishing fourth and last in November's election for the party leadership, he slumped into an exhausted depression.

DIED. General David M. Shoup, 78, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1960 to 1963; of heart disease; in Alexandria, Va. During World War II, he won the Medal of Honor for his bravery during the battle of Tarawa, one of the bloodiest of the Pacific war.

DIED. Nikolai Podgorny, 79, the Soviet Union's President from 1965 to 1977 who traveled the world on ceremonial missions, projecting the preferred Soviet image of stolid gray; in Kiev. The son of a foundry worker, Podgorny had a lackluster early career as a bureaucrat in the Ukraine before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protege, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency and ultimately jettisoned him altogether.

DIED. Meyer Lansky, 81, Florida-based mobster long regarded as the financial genius of U.S. organized crime; of cancer; in Miami Beach. Graduate of a Prohibition-era gang, the Russian-born Lansky became a top adviser to Mafia Leader Lucky Luciano. He later held the gambling franchise for Havana and, as the Mob's leading banker, had the task of laundering, investing and concealing its growing treasure. In the early days, Luciano used to marvel at the ability of his studious Jewish colleague to fathom the nuances of the Sicilian mind.

DIED. Ben Benn (ne Rosenberg), 98, Russian-born painter who assimilated modern artistic trends into a style of prodigal buoyancy; in Bethel, Conn. Benn, who came to the U.S. as a teenager, delighted in the urgency of the senses, of colors and surfaces, which he celebrated in long, loose, singing brush strokes. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.