EXPECTING. Susan Sarandon, 38, actress currently shooting the comedy-mystery Compromising Positions: her first child; next March, in New York City. Divorced from Actor Chris Sarandon since 1979, she declines to name the father.

RECONCILED. Marie Osmond, 25, wholesome pop singer; and Stephen L. Craig, 28, real estate salesman and her husband of 2 1/2 years, from whom she had "temporarily separated" last month; in Provo, Utah.

SENTENCED. Stacy Reach, 43, stage and film actor who stars in TV's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series; to nine months in prison, after pleading guilty to importing 1.3 oz. of cocaine into Britain last April from France, where he was filming the mini-series Mistral's Daughter; in Reading, England. Keach, who had already completed most of this season's Hammer episodes, began serving the sentence immediately.

DIED. Edward Crankshaw, 75, British scholar who turned out 16 graceful, lively, popular histories and biographies on such subjects as Nikita Khrushchev, Austria's Habsburgs, Germany's Bismarck and Authors Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad; of cancer; in Hawkhurst, England.

DIED. John Rock, 94, flinty, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist who played the key role in developing, testing and popularizing the birth control pill, which helped spark a revolution in sexual mores, population control and the status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used two body substances, estrogen and progesterone, Rock, a daily Mass-going Roman Catholic, believed the church might accept it as a "natural" family-planning device. When Pope Paul VI banned all forms of artificial contraception in a 1968 encyclical, Rock angrily accused the Pope of abdicating "responsibility for the ultimate welfare of all."

DIED. Stephen M. Young, 95, cantankerous Ohio Democrat who served 20 years in the House and Senate before retiring at 81; of a blood disorder; in Washington, D.C. Known for his sharp tongue, he would write critics: "Dear Sir: Some crackpot has written me a letter and signed your name to it. I thought you ought to know..."