Born. To Mary Rodgers, 33, Richard's composer-daughter (Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot), and Henry Guettel, 36, general manager of Lincoln Center's Music Theater: their second son (she has three children by a previous marriage); in Manhattan.

Married. Susan Saarinen, 19, Architect Hero's only daughter (by First Wife Lily); and Kirk Wilkinson, 22, fellow student at the Rhode Island School of Design; in a Unitarian ceremony in the chapel that Saarinen built at M.I.T., in Cambridge, Mass.

Married. Ann Packer, 22, British track star of the Tokyo Olympics, winner of a silver medal in the 400-meter dash, a gold for her world record in the 800; and Robbie Brightwell, 25, sprinter-captain of the British men's track team, himself a silver medalist in the 1,600-meter relay; in Moulsford, England.

Died. Carl Van Vechten, 84, critic, novelist, photographer and Manhattan bon vivant, who at the age of 40 gave up a career as New York's style-setting dance and music critic to write seven popular, thinly fictionalized accounts (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess) of his own Prohibition-era bohemian ways, at 52 launched yet another career as a renowned, and certainly magnanimous, portrait photographer (he gave his work to his subjects free of charge), all the while amassing enough Negro manuscripts and phonograph records from his old uptown haunts to establish the U.S.'s largest collection of Harlem's home-grown art at Yale University; in Manhattan.

Died. John Price Jones, 87, among the first of the big-time professional fund raisers, a Manhattan adman who in 1919 helped his Alma Mater Harvard (class of '02) raise $15 million in three months, formed his own company to make a career of it, and in the next 30 years drummed up close to $1 billion for everything from the Salvation Army to the 1939 World's Fair; of a long illness; in Philadelphia.

Died. Robert Allerton, 91, philanthropist and horticulturist, heir to a Chicago stockyards fortune who gave $ 1,500,000 to the Chicago Art Institute and another $1,000,000 to Honolulu's Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii.

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