BORN. To Debby Boone, 27, wholesome pop singer and daughter of Pat Boone, who recorded a 1977 hit single of You Light Up My Life, but has not lit up the charts since, and Gabriel Ferrer, 26, her manager, son of Actor Jose Ferrer and Singer Rosemary Clooney: twin girls; in Hollywood.

ENGAGED. Mary Tyler Moore, 45, vibrant television and film actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People); and Dr. Robert Levine, 31, Manhattan cardiologist. The wedding, planned for around Thanksgiving, will be her third, his first.

DIED. Qiao Guanhua, 70, Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1974-76 who played a crucial role in improving his country's relations with the U.S. before he was dismissed from office for his alleged connections with the purged radical faction, the Gang of Four; of lung cancer; in Peking. A worldly, seasoned diplomat and close ally of the late Premier Chou Enlai, Guanhua, was known for his wide-ranging intelligence and acerbic wit. Because of his ties with Mao Tse-tung's widow, Gang of Four Leader Jiang Qing, Guanhua became one of the highest-ranking officials sidelined by the new government of pragmatists that rose to power after Mao's death in 1976.

DIED. Charles Gombault, 76, impassioned French journalist who, as cofounder, publisher and editor in chief of the mass-circulation afternoon newspaper France-Soir, challenged his country's tradition of partisan reportage by encouraging new standards of objective news coverage; following open-heart surgery; in Paris. Gombault, who was associated with many publications during his career, co-founded France-Soir in 1945, modeling the daily after American newspapers. "A journalist must remain a witness," he taught young reporters, "and resist the temptation to be at the same time an actor."

DIED. John Upton, 84, obstetrician-gynecologist whose interest in transfusions led him in 1940 to design a portable transfusion kit used by the military during World War II to treat thousands of U.S. and British wounded, and in 1941 to co-found the first U.S. nonprofit community blood bank, the Irwin Memorial, which served as a central supplier of blood and plasma to all hospitals in San Francisco; of a heart attack; in San Francisco.

DIED. LeRoy Prinz, 88, movie choreographer who staged athletic, high-kicking dance routines in such classics as Yankee Doodle Dandy and South Pacific; in Hollywood. A renowned raconteur who often told of his youthful adventures as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and as entertainment coordinator for Al Capone's nightclubs, Prinz once declared: "The public thinks that a dancing master is a flighty individual with a handkerchief in his sleeve and a set of taps on his shoes. I'd rather you called me Butch." This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.