Born. To Elizabeth Taylor, 25, beauteous London-born cinemactress (Elephant Walk, Giant), and Mike Todd, 50, sled-jawed promoter-producer (Around the World in 80 Days); a daughter, their first child (her third, his second); in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth (Liza) Frances. Weight: 4 lbs. 14 oz.

Born. To Donald Eugene (Gene) Conley, 26, gangly (6 ft. 8 in.), ace Milwaukee Braves pitcher, and Kathryn Conley, 25: their second daughter, third child; in Milwaukee. Name: Susan Kelly. Weight: 7 lbs. 9 oz.

Married. Margaret Leighton, 35, veteran British star of stage (the Old Vic, Separate Tables) and screen (The Constant Husband); and Laurence Harvey, 28, Lithuanian-born, dark-haired British cinemactor (I Am a Camera, Romeo and Juliet), who was named as corespondent in her 1955 divorce from Publisher Max Reinhardt; she for the second time, he for the first; in Gibraltar.

Married. Pablo Casals, 80, famed expatriate Spanish cellist; and Martita Montanez, 20, of Puerto Rico, his fourth wife and his student for the past three years; in San Juan, P.R.

Died. Oliver Norvell ("Babe") Hardy, 65, chubby, splenetic half of the inseparable team of Laurel & Hardy, who churned out (1927-45) about 300 silent and talkie slapstick films (Babes in Toyland, Way Out West, The Devil's Brother, Blockheads) ; of the effects of a paralytic stroke he had in September, 1956; in North Hollywood. Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more, as Hardy once said, in "human appeal" than in "straight clownish antics," they teamed up in 1927, and as bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling to get a grand piano over a narrow suspension bridge across a horrifying chasm between two Alpine peaks, they would encounter, midway, a gorilla). Hardy was the master of mime and the bowler-bouncing doubletake, and, faced with Laurel's witless works, the withering glare. But it was brink-of-tears Laurel (who has also suffered a stroke) who somehow, always looking miserable, saved them.

Died. Frederick George Novy, M.D., 92, famed bacteriologist and faculty member of the University of Michigan from 1886 to 1935, dean of the medical school 1930-35, who studied in Europe under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, in 1888 helped establish the first U.S. bacteriological laboratory; in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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