Born. To Alfred Mossman Landon, 45, Governor of Kansas, and Theo Cobb Landon : a son, their second child; in Topeka. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: John Cobb Landon. Governor Landon has a 17-year-old daughter by his first wife, who died in 1918.

Engaged. Eleanor Morris McCormick, 23, elder daughter of Robert Hall McCormick II, great-grandniece of the late great Cyrus McCormick; and Sargent Collier, 33, House Beautiful staff writer.

Divorced. By Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, 28, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, sometime Imperial Russian Army major general, great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant: Bruce Smith, son of President Thomas Smith of Louisville Paper Co.; in Louisville, Ky. Charge: cruelty.

Died. Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky, 58, Soviet Ambassador to Spain, dramatist, and longtime (1917-29) People's Commissar for Education; of arteriosclerosis; in Menton, France. Communist 100-percenters viewed him as a "liberal" and an esthete, were horrified when he held up the Moscow-Leningrad express for his actress wife, finally forced his resignation.

Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom.

Died. Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior, 62, German banker (M. M. Warburg & Co.) and reparations spokesman, onetime board vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements; of heart disease and arteriosclerosis; in Hamburg.

Died. Frank Libby Dame, 66, utilitarian, president and board chairman of North American Co.; of apoplexy; in Garden City, L. I.

Died. Henry Frederick Lippitt, 77, president and board chairman of Manville Jenckes Co., Rhode Island's largest ($39,000,000) textile firm, vice president of Cotton Textile Institute Inc., onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, yachtsman (his sloop Weetamoe won the Astor Cup in 1906); of a heart attack; in Providence.

Died. Francisco Macia y Llusa, 74, "The Grandfather," President of Catalonia; after an appendectomy; in Barcelona. After long years of ridicule and exile, he was chiefly responsible for Catalonia's present autonomy under the Spanish Republic. When the monarchy fell, he proclaimed a Catalan Republic five hours before Madrid did a Spanish Republic, revived the ancient Catalan Cortes, language and flag.

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