Born. To Harold Robbins, 48, best-selling author of paperback panty raids (The Carpetbaggers), and Grace Robbins, fortyish, his third or possibly his fourth wife ("It doesn't make any difference," he says): their first child, a daughter; in Cannes, France.

Married. Cassius Clay, 22, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, the Black Muslim's most prominent disciple, in real life the strongest, quickest, most b-e-e-e-o-o-otiful, and certainly the most hilarious heavyweight champion boxing has ever known; and Sonji Roy, 22, Chicago model; in Gary, Ind.

Married. Anne Bancroft, 32, Broadway and Hollywood's Miracle Worker; and Mel Brooks, 38, TV comedy writer (Sid Caesar Show); both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Grayce Breene Kerr, 63, widow and a principal heir of Oklahoma's wealthy Democratic Senator (worth approximately $35 million at his death in 1963); and Olney Flynn, 69, onetime mayor of Tulsa, another wealthy oilman; both for the second time; in Minneapolis.

Died. Murray Pease, 60, conservator of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, one of the world's top art detectives who, armed with infrared film and chemical analysis, waged war against forgeries, in 1945 proved that Andrea Mantegna's signature on the museum's Meditation on the Passion had been painted over that of a lesser-known Renaissance master, Vittore Carpaccio (the museum did not mind: it had three Mantegnas but no Carpaccios, which are almost as valuable); of a heart attack; in Southold, N.Y.

Died. Leopold Mannes, 64, co-inventor of Kodachrome film, a concert pianist who, with Fellow Musician Leopold Godowsky, spent his free hours trying to develop a high-quality, easy-to-use color film, after 20 years of experimenting came up with the first three-color transparency in 1935, an invention they sold to Eastman Kodak, thereby ushering in photography's golden era; of a stroke; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Died. Ernest Martin ("Hoppy") Hopkins, 86, longtime president of Dartmouth College (1916-45), who took the Hanover, N.H., institution out of its intellectual backwater with such Ivy League innovations as tutorials, a liberal curriculum, and a hefty endowment (up from $4,000,000 to $20 million), while charming undergraduates by damning Prohibition, awarding unlimited cuts from lectures, and establishing a stalwart football team; after a long illness; in Manset, Me.

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