Born. To Paul Newman, 40, ingratiating stage and cinema heel (The Hustler, Hud), and Joanne Woodward, 35, Georgia-bred actress, his frequent costar, who won an Oscar in 1957 for her smoldering performance in The Three Faces of Eve: their third child, third daughter (he has one son, two other daughters by a previous marriage); by natural childbirth, which left mother able to enjoy two peanut-butter sandwiches half an hour after delivery; in Manhattan.

Died. Gretchen Merrill, 39, six-time (1943-48) U.S. women's figure-skating champion, a pretty blonde perfectionist who lost her chance to win a world title when the Olympics were suspended for twelve years during and after World War II and, when they resumed in 1948, finished a disappointing eighth, after which she retired from competition; in Windsor, Conn., where she had been under treatment for emotional problems for the last three years.

Died. Sir Pierson Dixon, 60, donnish, unflappable diplomat, spare-time belle-lettrist and novelist, who as Britain's permanent representative to the U.N. (1954-60) coolly defended his nation in the furious 1956 debate over Suez, thereafter served as Ambassador to France (until February), playing a major role in the abortive negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, after which he remarked sadly that reasoning with De Gaulle was "like trying to get through to a man wearing a suit of armor"; at Egham, Surrey.

Died. Paul Jung, 65, one of the most creative circus clowns in the business, who in 31 years as a performer-producer with Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey originated many of its now standard routines, notably the burning house which explodes a midget high into the air while 30 other clowns fool around with two fire engines; of head wounds suffered in an unsolved murder; in his hotel room, half a block from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.

Died. Johnny Dundee, 71, onetime world featherweight boxing champion, the crowd-pleasing "Scotch Wop" (he grew up as Giuseppe Carrora in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen) who danced and jabbed his way through 321 professional bouts in 22 years, outpointing France's Eugene Criqui for the title in 1923, only to resign it one year later when he could no longer stay within the 126-lb. weight limit, finishing his career as a lightweight in 1932; of pneumonia; in East Orange, N.J.

Died. Sir Edward Victor Appleton, 72, renowned British physicist and principal of Edinburgh University, who in 1924 proved that there were ionized layers in the upper atmosphere by bouncing short-length radio waves off them, a technique that made worldwide radio communication practicable, led directly to Britain's development of radar (thus giving the R.A.F. a crucial advantage over the numerically superior Luftwaffe), and won for the pioneering scientist the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics; of a stroke; in Edinburgh.

Died. Pedro Albizu Campos, 73, fanatic Puerto Rican nationalist whose followers turned to violence in the 1930s, attempted to assassinate President Truman in 1950, staging a simultaneous, two-day revolt in which they tried to kill Governor Luis Munoz Marin, and in 1954 shot up the U.S. House of Representatives and wounded five Congressmen, earning their Harvard-educated leader a total of 21 years in jail (he was twice pardoned by Munoz on medical grounds); of pneumonia and kidney disease; in San Juan.

Died. Owen Vincent ("Owney") Madden, 73, British-born, bigtime, Prohibition-era gangster, crony of Legs Diamond, Dutch Schultz and Frank Costello (and of Movie Actor George Raft, who started out as Owney's chauffeur), the seemingly indestructible leader of Manhattan's Gopher Gang, who manufactured 300,000 gallons of bootleg beer a day, used a fleet of ships to smuggle in liquor from abroad, absorbed so many bullets from rival mobsters that police nicknamed him "Clay Pigeon," was charged with six killings but served time (eight years) for only one, retiring after his release from Sing Sing in 1933 to Hot Springs, Ark., where he lived next door to the police chief; of emphysema; in Hot Springs.

Died. Lord Ernest Walter Hives, 79, engineer and former (1950-57) board chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd., who multiplied its earnings from the carriage trade by making his company the world's biggest supplier of jet aircraft engines, jovially referred to Rolls as "that little garage in Derby," and drove himself around in a tiny Hillman Minx; following a stroke two years ago that left him in a coma; in London.

Died. Louise Dresser, 82, oldtime vaudeville singing star, later Will Rogers' long-suffered "wife" in seven films of the early '30s (State Fair, Lightnin'), who began her career in 1900 with an assist from Novelist Theodore Dreiser's balladeer brother Paul, quit song for the silents in 1923, assisted in a dozen Hollywood flops before finally winning acclaim in 1925 as the drink-sodden Goose Woman, retiring from the screen in a huff twelve years later when a columnist revealed that she was partially deaf; following abdominal surgery; in Woodland Hills, Calif.

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