Born. To Dick Clark, 35, Pied Piper (at $1,000,000 a year) to the country's rock 'n' rollers, since 1956 M.C. of ABC-TV's American Bandstand; and Loretta Clark, 28, onetime Manhattan secretary: their second child, first daughter; in Hollywood.

Born. To Ines Cuervo de Prieto, 35, Venezuelan housewife who in September 1963 gave birth to Latin America's second set of surviving quintuplets; and Efren Lubin Prieto, 39, worker for Creole Petroleum Corp.: twin girls, their eighth and ninth daughters, 21st and 22nd children; in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Born. To Tony Richardson, 36, British director (stage: Look Back in Anger; screen: Tom Jones), and Vanessa Redgrave, 27, Sir Michael's daughter, herself a promising Shakespearean actress: their second daughter; in London.

Born. To Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, 39, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren to 23.

Divorced. Dick Haymes, 47, World War II vintage crooner who made more than $4,000,000 but declared himself bankrupt in 1960 after dividing it between Uncle Sam, his agents and his first four wives (No. 4: Rita Hay worth); by Fran Jeffries, 25, nightclub singer and sometime actress; on grounds of extreme cruelty (he was jealous of her rising career, she said): after six years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.

Died. Lorraine Hansberry, 34, U.S. Negro playwright, daughter of a well-to-do Chicago real estate operator, who wrote and tore up three plays before finding herself with A Raisin in the Sun, a refreshingly honest, wryly humorous study of big-city tenement life that showed Negroes as all-too-human beings instead of ranting symbols of oppression, winning her the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and earning some $300,000 in movie rights; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, which examined Greenwich Village's demimonde, opened last October just before she was hospitalized, closed the day after her death.

Died. Jeanette MacDonald, 57, Hollywood's reigning soprano in the 1930s and early '40s, who teamed with Nelson Eddy to make eight slight, sweet, surefire musicals (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie), becoming one of MGM's biggest drawing cards, later embarking on a second, modestly successful career as a touring concert singer, all the while remaining happily married, since 1937, to Actor Gene Raymond; of a heart attack; in Houston.

Died. Virgil Blossom, 58, school superintendent of Little Rock, Ark., during the 1957 integration crisis, who won the city's 1955 Man of the Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since 1959.

Died. Thor Thors, 61, Iceland's ruddy, affable diplomat of all work, delegate to the U.N., Ambassador to the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, Minister to Cuba, and foremost salesman of home-grown codfish, who, whenever fellow diplomats asked how come so many jobs, smilingly replied: "My country cannot afford more ambassadors": of internal hemorrhaging two weeks after the death of Brother Olafur Thors, Iceland's five-time Prime Minister and leading statesman; in Washington.

Died. Dr. William Bleckwenn, 69, University of Wisconsin neuropsychia--trist who, while experimenting with drugs in 1929, found that a common barbiturate, sodium amytal, if administered intravenously instead of in sleeping-pill capsule form, often acted as a "truth serum" that proved of value in the treatment of mental patients until supplanted recently by other drugs; in Winter Haven, Fla.

Died. Dolly O'Brien, 70, belle of Palm Beach from the '20s to the '40s, whose ageless blonde beauty, irrepressible wit and $5,000,000 worth of yeast from her second husband, Julius Fleischmann, so charmed the swains that Clark Gable, among others, proposed to her when she was well past 50 but was turned down as husband No. 4 because she could not countenance moving to Hollywood; after a succession of strokes; in West Palm Beach.

Died. Marion Deering McCormick, 78, doyenne of Chicago society, heiress to a $120 million farm-machinery fortune (the Deering harvester, McCormick reaper), whose considerable philanthropies (Northwestern University, Chicago's Art Institute, Illinois Children's Home & Aid Society), gold-plated dinner parties and regal mien won her hands-down election in a 1954 Chicago Daily News poll to choose an "official" queen of the city's society; after a long illness; in Chicago.

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