BORN. To Lesley Brown, 34, mother of the first "test tube" baby, and John Brown, 42, a truck driver: their second child, a girl; in Bristol, England. Name: Natalie Jane. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz. Like Louise, her healthy sister, who will be four next month, Natalie was conceived in a Petri dish by doctors uniting mother's egg and father's sperm. About 30 children have been born through the same technique; the Browns are the first couple to have a second separately implanted child.

DIED. Art Pepper, 56, gifted but tortured jazz musician who established himself as a top alto saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time in prison and hospitals than on bandstands. Miraculously, though, his style grew into a distinctive, fiery lyricism.

DIED. Rebekah Harkness, 67, wealthy heiress who became a generous donor to medical research and a patron of the arts, particularly ballet, maintaining her own troupe, the Harkness Ballet, from 1965 to 1975; of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. Curt Jurgens, 69, imposing, sometimes villainous international stage and screen actor whose more than 160 films included The Devil's General (1955), The Blue Angel (1959), The Longest Day (1962) and The Enemy Below (1957); of heart disease; in Vienna.

DIED. Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, 69, King of Saudi Arabia and Imam and Protector of the Wahhabis; of a heart attack; in Taif, Saudi Arabia (see SPECIAL SECTION).

DIED. John Cheever, 70, elegiac storyteller of suburbia; after a long illness; in Ossining, N.Y. (see BOOKS).

DIED. Granville Hicks, 80, literary critic; in Kendall Park, N. J. A member of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1939, Hicks created an intellectual storm with his Marxist critiques of American and British writing. He quit the party in disgust over the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and in his later years wrote mostly apolitical criticism.

DIED. Marie Rambert, 94, grande dame of the British ballet; of a stroke; in London. After dancing with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she worked with Nijinsky, the volatile Polish-born teacher in 1926 formed Ballet Rambert, Britain's first ballet company. There the exuberant "Mim" nurtured such choreographers and dancers as Anthony Tudor, Frederick Ashton and Agnes de Mille.

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