Born. To Maury Wills, 32, base-stealing Dodger shortstop (84 as of last week), and Gertrude Elliot Wills, 31: their sixth child, fourth daughter; in Spokane, Wash.

Married. Roger Thomas Staubach, 23, All-America Navy quarterback in1963, now an assistant coach at Annapolis; and Marianne Jeanne Hoobler, 23, pediatrics nurse; in Cincinnati.

Married. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 40, famed German lieder singer; and Ruth Leuwerik, 39, German film star; both for the second time (his first, Cellist Irmgard Poppen, died in childbirth in 1963); in Zollikon, Switzerland.

Married. Orville Enoch Hodge, 60, former Illinois state auditor and gubernatorial hopeful who in 1956 went to jail for embezzling $1,450,000 in public funds, was paroled in 1963 to make a new life as an Oldsmobile salesman; and Viola Coombs, 61, a home-town secretary; both for the second time; in Granite City, Ill.

Died. Clifford Stanton Heinz III, 25, great-grandson of Food-Company Founder H. J. Heinz and heir to a share in the $40 million family fortune; by his own hand (.25-cal. pistol), following several years of general despondency and psychiatric treatment; in Chicago.

Died. Dorothy Dandridge, 41, Negro singing star, who in the 1950s ruled the supper clubs with her stunning beauty, gold lame-clad figure and torch songs (Love Isn't Born, It's Made), later turned to films, giving starring performances in Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, but then saw the torch dim, was forced into bankruptcy in 1963; of a stroke; in Hollywood.

Died. Hermann Staudinger, 84, German chemist and 1953 Nobel prizewinner, who fathered the age of plastics with his 1922 theory that large organic molecules derive their individual properties from orderly chainlike structures, hundreds of atoms long, thus making it possible for scientists to reproduce the structures synthetically, and develop such wonders as nylon (for silk) and Orion (for wool); of a stroke; in Freiburg, Germany.

Died. Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, inventor of the Lionel electric train, a boyhood tinkerer who got off on the right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach, Fla.

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