Born. To Diana Trask, 23, carrot-topped Australian singer who came up from Down Under to sing along with Mitch, and Thomas Ewen, 36, Aussie auto salesman: their second child, second son; in Melbourne.

Born. To Patricia Neal, 38, Academy Award-winning cinemactress for her portrait of the housekeeper in Hud, and Roald Dahl, 47, British author of deftly ghoulish short stories: their third child, second daughter; in Oxford, England. Name: Ophelia.

Born. To Ed Begley, 63, cinemactor who played a swamp-grass politician in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, and Helen Jordan, 38, his third wife: a daughter; in Dublin.

Divorced. By Kenneth Tynan, 37, drama critic for the London Observer from 1954 to 1963, now on the receiving end as literary manager for the British National Theater: Elaine Dundy, 36, Long Island-born novelist who chronicles American girls abroad (The Old Man and Me); on grounds of incompatibility; after 13 years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Carol Haney, 39, snub-nosed, pixiefied dancer-comedienne who burst into fame in the 1954 musical Pajama Game as Gladys, the offbeat secretary who had (clang, clang) "Ss-s-s-steam Heat," but, after being hospitalized for diabetes and exhaustion in 1957, simmered down to become one of Broadway's most popular choreographers, arranging dances for Flower Drum Song and Funny Girl; of pneumonia, complicated by diabetes; in Manhattan.

Died. Vic Morabito, 45, owner of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers, who, with his brother Tony, founded the team in 1946, took over direction after Tony dropped dead of a stroke between halves of a game with the Chicago Bears in 1957; of a stroke; in San Francisco.

Died. Vernon Carl Walston, 58, founder (in 1932) and president of Wall Street's Walston & Co., one of the nation's top ten stockbrokers; by his own hand (20-gauge shotgun); in Manhattan. A moody, drivingly ambitious onetime fruit vendor, Walston started the firm in San Francisco under the aegis of Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros hides, an elephant's foot--and an arsenal of small arms.

Died. Diana Wynyard, 58, stately British cinemactress of the 1930s, best remembered by U.S. audiences as the courageous wife in the 1933 Academy Award-winning movie version of Noel Coward's Cavalcade, by Britons for her roles at the Old Vic, where last fall she played a brilliantly sensual Gertrude to Peter O'Toole's Hamlet; of a kidney ailment; in London.

Died. Hamilton Basso, 59, journalist-novelist, a gentlemanly scholar from New Orleans who exiled himself to Connecticut in 1944, but kept trying to go home again with leisurely re-creations of the South's social distinctions, ancestor worship and tribal customs (from lynching to channel bass fishing), most successfully in his 1954 bestseller, The View from Pompey's Head; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Mollie Minsky, 69, widow of Abraham Minsky, eldest of the four brothers of burlesque, a motherly soul who defended the family trade as art ("It broadens the viewpoint"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Clarence Cannon, 85, Missouri's gnarled, irascible, untiring, punctilious bantam Democratic Congressman, parliamentarian and parsimonious boss of the Appropriations Committee; of a heart ailment; in Washington (see THE NATION).

Died. Max Dreyfus, 90, music publisher, since 1935 president of Manhattan's Chappell & Co., a German immigrant (class of '88) who first set up shop in Tin Pan Alley in 1901, where he hired Jerome Kern as a song plugger, George Gershwin as a $35-a-week accompanist, until both rewarded him by writing hits that sold millions and enabled Dreyfus to sign up just about every major Broadway composer from Romberg to Loewe; of a heart attack; in Brewster, N.Y.

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