Born. To Sono Osato Elmaleh, 27, sprightly, slant-eyed, Japanese-Irish-American ballerina (One Touch of Venus, On the Town), and Victor Elmaleh, 28, French Morocco-born architectural designer: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Niko. Weight: 7 Ibs. 1 oz.

Died. Edwin Fisher, 63, British financier, High Sheriff of Sussex, chairman (from 1936) of Barclays Bank Ltd., one of the world's largest and farthest-flung; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after being stricken at Buckingham Palace during an audience with Queen Elizabeth; in London.

Died. Dr. Morris Raphael Cohen, 66, Russian-born philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, writer and wit; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. The big-domed professor was an intimate of famous minds (Einstein, Cardozo, Holmes), a sharp-tongued champion of students, author of several notable books (Faith of a Liberal, etc.).

Died. Dushon John, 67, "king" of Serbian gypsies in the Western U.S.; of uremia; in Oakland, Calif. During an elaborate, jolly funeral, his money, toothbrush and hair oil were also buried, to see him through the journey into the Beyond.

Died. Paul Percy Harris, 78, Chicago lawyer who, in 1905, founded the first Rotary Club as a balm for his own loneliness; in Chicago. Harris became the first national, first international, president of Rotary (so named because early meetings were held in rotation at each member's office), lived to see his club expand to more than 70 countries, with a 293,000 membership.

Died. Edwin Scrymgeour (rhymes with primper), 80, teetotaling, Bible-quoting Scottish Prohibitionist who trounced Winston Churchill in a 1922 election upset, served nine years in Parliament, was himself soundly defeated when he tried to outlaw alcohol in Britain; in Dundee, Scotland.

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