BORN. To Crystal Gayle, 32, sultry, velvet-voiced country-pop singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue), and Vassilios ("Bill") Gatzimos, 31, her manager: their first child, a daughter; in Nashville. Name: Catherine Claire. Weight: 5 Ibs. 3 oz.

BORN. To S.E. (Susan) Hinton, 35, bestselling author of deromanticized novels for young adults (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish), and her husband David E. Inhofe, 35, mail-order businessman: their first child, a son; in Tulsa, Okla. Name: Nicholas David. Weight: 6 Ibs. 15 oz.

MARRIED. Maureen O'Sullivan, 72, actress who won fame as Tarzan's demure jungle mate Jane in the movie series and who appeared in 1980 on Broadway in Morning's at Seven; and James Gushing, 63, a construction-company board chairman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Loudonville, N.Y.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Nick Nolte, 42, narrow-eyed, broad-shouldered film actor (The Deep, 48 Hrs.); and Sharyn Haddad, 28, actress-singer; after five years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

ILL. Terence Cooke, 62, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of New York; with acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. Announcing the illness last week, a spokesman for the Cardinal said that he is not expected to live for more than a few months, but is not planning to resign or retire.

RECOVERING. Pat Nixon, 71, former First Lady; from a mild stroke; in Saddle River, N.J. After five days of treatment in a New York City hospital, she returned home in good condition. Mrs. Nixon eventually made a complete recovery from a more severe stroke in 1976 that had at first left her partially paralyzed.

RECOVERING. Bette Davis, 75, fiery, regal Hollywood star for nearly half a century; after a monthlong hospital stay for treatment of a neurological disorder; in New York City. Davis plans to resume work on her new television series Hotel.

DIED. Shawn Stephens Lewis, 25, Detroit secretary who last June became the fifth wife of renegade rockabilly Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 47; of pulmonary edema, a condition that causes the lungs to fill with fluid and is sometimes related to a drug overdose; in Nesbit, Miss. The tempestuous, controversial Lewis attributed his recovery from emergency stomach surgery in 1981 to Shawn's loving support. Sudden death, however, has haunted the singer's life: a three-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool in 1962; another son, his 19-year-old namesake, was killed in a 1973 auto accident; and his fourth wife, Jaren, drowned shortly after filing for divorce in 1982.

DIED. Scott Nearing, 100, crusty, radical counterculture icon and iconoclast; at his Forest Farm in Harborside, Me. Trained as an economist, Nearing was dismissed from his University of Pennsylvania professorship in 1915 for denouncing child labor; he was fired in 1917 from the University of Toledo for his outspoken pacifist views, and in 1929 was expelled from the Communist Party for deviation from Lenin's theory of imperialism. Three years later, Nearing repaired to a remote, 65-acre, $1,100 Vermont farm, where he and his second wife, Helen, 21 years his junior, built a stone house, abjured animal labor as well as most machines, and banished even eggs and dairy products from their diet. The Nearings' Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World (1954) became a gospel of the back-to-the-land movement. In 1952 the ruggedly nonconformist couple moved on to Maine and Forest Farm, near Penobscot Bay, where they led an even hardier existence, chronicled in Continuing the Good Life (1979). A popular public speaker since the '60s, Nearing published his autobiography, The Making of a Radical, in 1972. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.