Born. To King Michael, 27, deposed King of Rumania, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 25, member of Denmark's royal family: their first child, a daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Margrethe. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protegee Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz.

Died. Jack Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35-c- records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business.

Died. Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern, 62, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and only member of the royal family to join the Nazi party, which he served as an SA officer until Goring kicked him out in the 1934 purge; of a lung ailment; in Stuttgart.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record.

Died. Henry Noble Hall, 76, British-born veteran reporter, lecturer and author; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 1946, suffering from a thyroid cancer, Hall offered himself as a human guinea pig. From glasses handed him in tongs at arm's length, he drank "Hiroshima Cocktails" (radioactive iodine from the Oak Ridge atom pile) which slowed the cancer. Knowing that the cure was incomplete, he had time to write detailed notes for the doctors.

Died. Burton Jesse Hendrick, 77, scholarly biographer-historian-journalist (McClure's Magazine--see PRESS) and three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner: once for history (The Victory at Sea, 1920 co-authored with Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims), twice for biography (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

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