BORN. To Joseph Alioto, 63, multimillionaire lawyer and former mayor of San Francisco, and Kathleen Sullivan Alioto, 34,

Democratic aspirant to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, who was defeated last September: a son, their first child; in San Francisco. Name: Patrick Joseph.

DIED. Robert George Grosvenor, 68, fifth Duke of Westminster and patriarch of a family whose wealth probably ranks second in Great Britain only to the Queen's; of emphysema; at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A descendant of William the Conqueror, Grosvenor served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and in the House of Commons from 1955 to 1964 before inheriting the dukedom from his older brother in 1967. Nine years later he passed along to his son Gerald,

Earl Grosvenor, control of the family fortune, estimated at $1 billion and consisting in part of 300 choice acres in central London, including the site of the American embassy.

DIED. Howard Schenken, 75, champion contract bridge player and theorist; of a brain tumor; in Palm Springs, Calif. Abandoning billiards for bridge when he was in his 20s, Schenken played on four world-title teams and won a record five Life Master Pair Championships during his 50-year career, as well as devised such now standard game practices as the prepared opening bid, the weak two-bid and the forcing two-over-one response.

DIED. Pedro Beltran, 81, former Peruvian Prime Minister and longtime publisher; of a heart attack; in Lima. Son of an aristocratic sugar grower, Beltran was educated at the London School of Economics. In 1934 he bought a dormant Lima newspaper, La Prensa, and despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from 11% to 3% and erase the government's budget deficit. Resigning in 1961 after a futile bid for the presidency, Beltran continued editing La Prensa until 1974, when the military government expropriated the paper in retaliation for his critical editorials.

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