Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 25, golfing great, last year's leading P.G.A. money winner ($113,284) and this year's Masters champ, and Barbara Jean Bash Nicklaus, 25: their third child, first daughter; in Columbus.

Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey.

Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime president (1937-1946) and prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks.

Died. Norman Ernest Brokenshire, 66, one of the best-known U.S. radio voices in the 1920s and early '30s, who started at New York's WJZ as a news commentator ("How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, how do you dor), went on to become a $1,300-a-week announcer for network variety shows (the Chesterfield Hour, Major Bowes' Amateur Hour) until 1934, when heavy drinking cost him his job, after which he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, made a brief comeback in network radio, then went into semiretirement as a part-time announcer for local stations near his home; of a stroke; in Hauppauge, N.Y.

Died. Edward Bremer, 67, St. Paul banker and brewer who was kidnaped by the notorious Barker-Karpis gang in 1934, gained freedom 22 days later on payment of a $200,000 ransom, but had seen and heard enough despite attempts to keep him blindfolded to help the FBI track down his 15 abductors, who either died in gun battles (Ma Barker, her son Fred) or went to prison; of a heart attack; in Pompano Beach, Fla.

Died. Julia Ghilione Skouras, 67, widow of Movie Theater-Chain Executive George P. Skouras (over 200 United Artists houses in 50 cities), herself the tireless, unpaid international chairman of Boys Towns of Italy, who regularly toiled 14 hours a day organizing committees and arranging benefits to support the ten towns and 31 nurseries which now shelter 6,700 Italian orphans; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Lord Mowbray, 69, England's Premier Baron (his title, the country's oldest, dates back to 1283), who in 1962 invoked the rarely exercised peer's immunity to prevent his estranged wife from having him jailed for refusing to return her family heirlooms (a silver matchbox, two trays, two bowls, three swords and a wig); after a long illness; m Harrogate, Yorkshire.

Died. Oren Ethelbirt Long, 76, one of Hawaii's first two U.S. Senators, serving from 1959 to 1962, a mild-mannered liberal Democrat and vigorous champion of statehood who went to the islands from Kansas as a social worker in 1917, later served as school superintendent (1934-46) and as the Truman-appointed Governor (1951-53) before winning election to the Senate at age of 70, stepping aside at the end of his term to make way for Danny Inouye; of a heart attack; in Honolulu.

Died. Howard Spring, 76, prolific British author of bestselling Dickensian family pageants (My Son! My Son!, Fame Is the Spur), who followed 25 years of newspaper reporting with a short stint as literary critic for the London Evening Standard, so loathed the books he reviewed that in 1932, at the age of 43, he turned to fiction, producing 14 novels, three plays, assorted children's stories and autobiographies; of a stroke; in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Died. Joe Metzger, 81, Swiss-born businessman who in 1942 launched the yogurt fad in the U.S., as founder of Dannon Milk Products, Inc., conquering early resistance by spiking the sour-tasting health food with fruit flavors, thus building Dannon into the nation's largest processor of the Levantine delight; after a long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Charles Sheeler, 81, spry, spindly U.S. painter whose crystalline visions of locomotive-driving wheels, industrial machines, smokestacks and the billowing forces that shape a yacht's sails at sea created the 1920s style called precisionism; of a stroke; in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. "Light is the great designer," Sheeler, a Pennsylvania Shaker, once said, believing that precisely reproduced reality "might have an underlying abstract structure." His depiction of a nation in search of speed and power led a critic to write that "if the Dynamo has become the 20th century Virgin, then Sheeler is its Fra Angelico."

Death Confirmed. General Humberto Delgado, 58, flamboyant Portuguese rebel leader; in Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (see THE WORLD).

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