Milestones

By M.M. Buechner, Daniel Eisenberg, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Tyler Maroney, Declan McCullagh, Michele Orecklin and Joshua Cooper Ramo

BORN. To ubermodel from Down Under ELLE MACPHERSON, 32, and financier boyfriend ARPAD ("ARKI") BUSSON, a boy, Arpad Flynn Busson; in New York City.

DIED. BOB MERRILL, 77, songwriting polymath whose hits ranged from How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? to Barbra Streisand's signature People; in Los Angeles. Merrill started his career writing such airy novelties for Tin Pan Alley as If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake and Mambo Italiano. He racked up 18 Top 10 hits between 1949 and 1956. His success continued on Broadway where he wrote the lyrics for Funny Girl and Carnival, among many others. Merrill also wrote screenplays, including one for Mahogany, starring Diana Ross.

DIED. HARRY CARAY, 83, irrepressible baseball announcer who had much more to say than "Holy cow!"; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He spent nearly 60 years behind the mike, the last 27 in Chicago.

DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife.

DIED. ERNST JUNGER, 102, militaristic German writer, in Wilflingen, Germany. Junger's controversial early novels extolled German nationalism and totalitarianism and attracted a following among the emerging Nazi Party. He rejected the party, however, and in 1939 wrote a novel critical of a thinly disguised Hitler. In later years he publicly repudiated the bellicosity of his youth.