Birth Revealed. To Shelagh Delaney, 25, Lancashire bus driver's daughter whose angry young drama A Taste of Honey (written when she was 18) described the coming of age of a Manchester slum waif with the birth of her illegitimate baby: a daughter; in London, on March 4. The name of the father and her own marital status, said the playwright, "are things I am not prepared to discuss at the moment."

Married. Melinda Wayne, 23, daughter of Hollywood's durable Duke; and Gregory Robert Munoz, 26, prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney; in Hollywood, in a ceremony performed by Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre.

Divorced. Walter Samuel Johnson, 79, multimillionaire San Francisco lumberman who gave $2,000,000 in 1959 to restore the city's historic Palace of Fine Arts; and Pauline Cook Johnson, 57, his third wife; in a double decree (she won her divorce on the ground of cruelty, he won his on cruelty and adultery); after 27 years of marriage, no children; in San Francisco, after six years of litigation and an 85-day trial that cost Johnson more than $3,000,000 in settlement, fees and court costs.

Died. Alejandro Lavorante, 27, Argentine boxer who won 17 heavyweight bouts in the U.S., lost five (including one each to Cassius Clay and Archie Moore); of brain injuries suffered when he was knocked out by San Francisco's Johnny Riggins in September 1962; in Mendoza, Argentina. Despite three craniotomies, Lavorante remained in a coma for 18 months, though nurses fed him meals, guided him through exercises, even trained him to comb his hair.

Died. Vice Admiral John Madison ("Uncle John") Hoskins, 65, who lost his right foot in a Japanese attack on the carrier Princeton in Leyte Gulf in 1944, seadoggedly battled top brass to return to duty ("Hell, Admiral, the Navy doesn't expect a man to think with his feet," he told "Bull" Halsey), by 1950 won command of the Seventh Fleet's Carrier Division III, whose jet squadrons led the attack in Korea; of a stroke; in Falls Church, Va.

Died. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, 84, crusading churchman, longtime (1907-49) pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Unitarian-Universalist Community Church, who campaigned against capital punishment and corruption (he played a key role in dethroning New York's Mayor James J. Walker in 1932), worked for causes ranging from birth control to nuclear disarmament, helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

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