Milestones

By Melissa August, Matthew Cooper, Wendy Cole, Ellin Martens, Desa Philadelphia, Julie Rawe, Alain Sanders, Flora Tartakovsky and Josh Tyrangiel

BORN. To CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, 42, globe-trotting CNN correspondent, and JAMES RUBIN, 40, departing State Department spokesman: a son, Darius; in Washington.

DIED. IAN DURY, 57, 1970s Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick punk rocker; of colon and liver cancer; in London.

DIED. ALEX COMFORT, 80, British physician, pacifist and author of the lively 1972 gourmet's guide to the sexual revolution, The Joy of Sex; in Banbury, England (see Eulogy below).

DIED. HELEN MARTIN, 90, character actress best remembered for her grandmotherly portrayals, such as the little old lady next door in the 1980s TV series 227; in Monterey, Calif.

DIED. EDWARD KNIPLING, 90, U.S. government entomologist whose 1950s insect-eradication technique, X-ray sterilization of males to prevent offspring, saved U.S. livestock from the plague of the screwworm; in Arlington, Va. Developed with a colleague, the no-insecticide model has since been used successfully against many other insect pests.

DIED. GISELE FREUND, 91, German-born photographer whose penetrating images of the literary and artistic haute societe of 20th century France became icons of the cultural milieu; in Paris. Among her many subjects: Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux, James Joyce--and President Francois Mitterrand, for his official photo.

DIED. ANTHONY POWELL, 94, British social-comic novelist, whose richly woven 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the genteel manners and morals of Britain's upper-middle class from World War I to the 1970s; in Frome, England. One of Britain's 20th century greats, Powell was the last of the Brideshead generation of writers that included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and George Orwell.