Born. To David Niven, 35, Scottish-born cinemactor, lately a British Army lieutenant colonel; and Primula Rollo . Niven, 27, one of the first WAAFs (they met bottoms up after a dive into a slit-trench in a 1940 air-raid): their second child, second son; in London. Name: James Graham. Weight: 9 Ibs. 3 1/2 oz.

Born. To James Roosevelt, 37, recently discharged Marine colonel, prewar cinema producer, and Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 30, his onetime nurse: their first child, a son (Eleanor Roosevelt's 14th grandchild); in Los Angeles. Name: James Jr. Weight: 8 Ibs. 12 oz.

Marriage Revealed. Edgar Bergen, 42, Charlie McCarthy's bashful, balding best friend; and Frances Westerman, 22, former Powers model; both for the first time; in Ensenada, Mexico, last June 23.

Divorced. By General Fulgencio Batista, 44, ex-President of Cuba: Elisa del Pilar Godinez y Gomez de Batista, 40; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Mexico City. He charged that she "materially abandoned" him (by staying in Cuba while he wandered around North and South America).

Died. Commodore Dixie ("Indestructible Man") Kiefer, 49, barrel-chested, battered carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup fog.

Died. Jack Nichols, 49, T.W.A.'s vice president in charge of international operations, onetime Congressman from Oklahoma (who headed a House committee investigating airplane crashes); in an Army 6-25 crash; on an airline survey flight from Asmara, Eritrea, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Died. William W. Norton, 54, publisher (W. W. Norton & Co.) of popular books on tough, unpopular subjects (e.g., Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million'), chairman of the Council on Books in Wartime, which sponsored the widely read Armed Services Editions; of a rare blood disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Jerome David Kern, 60, dean of American show-music composers, whose half-a-hundred musicomedies since 1912 have kept the nation humming such lilting melodies as Make Believe, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and The Way You Look Tonight; of cerebral thrombosis; in Manhattan. A mild, owl-eyed little man with a head for business, he liked rare books and hated ostentation, strove to make his songs "charming rather than spectacular, popular without being vulgar," succeeded in making the best of them (e.g., 0V Man River) internationally loved.

Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles.

Died. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, 95, last of Germany's old-line soldiers, veteran of the Franco-Prussian war, World War I commander who overran Serbia and most of Rumania; near Celle, in the British occupation zone. Hitler took an upstart corporal's delight in public appearances beside the dour, ominous old Prussian. When captured by American troops last April, he was angrily shooing liberated Russians away from his chickens.

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