MILESTONES

By KATHLEEN ADAMS, CHRISTINE GORMAN, LINA LOFARO, MICHAEL QUINN, ALAIN L. SANDERS AND SIDNEY URQUHART

BORN. To TAI BABILONIA, 35, ice skater, and her husband CARY BUTLER, 29, a musical engineer/producer; a son, SCOUT GABRIEL BUTLER; in Los Angeles. He is their first child.

ADOPTED. By EARVIN ("MAGIC") JOHNSON, 35, retired basketball star, and his wife COOKIE; a girl, ELISA, born last month; in Michigan. She is the third child for Johnson, the second for the couple, who have a 2-1/2-year-old son Earvin III.

MARRIAGE REVEALED. JOHN PAUL GETTY JR., 62, billionaire and philanthropist; to his companion of 20 years, VICTORIA HOLDSWORTH, 44, former TV model; in December; in Barbados. Both have been married twice before. APPOINTED. THE REV. LLOYD JOHN OGILVIE, 64, Presbyterian minister, to the post of Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Currently senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California, Ogilvie is also host of a daily radio show and a weekly TV program, Let God Love You. His new job will pay $115,700 a year in taxpayer dollars.

DIED. DAVID COLE, 32, influential record producer; of complications from spinal meningitis; in New York City. Cole was one-half of the team behind the dance-fevered hits of C+C Music Factory (the other half being partner Robert Clivilles). The group scored with an mtv/aerobics-class classic, Gonna Make You Sweat. Cole won a Grammy for the sound track to The Bodyguard .

DIED. JAMES GRANT, 72, impassioned director of unicef since 1980; of cancer, two days after resigning for health reasons; in Mount Kisco, New York. Under his leadership the percentage of children immunized in the developing world rose from 20% to 80%. He helped formulate the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognized the political and economic rights of children. Grant received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.