Born. To William Wellman, 55, Hollywood producer-director (Nothing Sacred), and Fourth Wife Dorothy Coonan Wellman, 37: their seventh child, fourth daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Margaret Seven Wellman. Weight: 6 Ibs. 7 oz.

Married. Leonard Bernstein, 33, conductor and composer (Fancy Free ballet; the Jeremiah and Age of Anxiety symphonies); and Felicia Montealegre, 24, Chile-born TV actress; in Boston.

Married. Cornel Wilde, 36, cinemactor (Forever Amber), and Jean Wallace (nee Walasek), supporting player more widely publicized for her off-screen capers; he for the second time, she for the third (No. 1: Franchot Tone); in Santa Monica.

Died. Maria Montez (christened Maria de Santo Silas), 31, whose burning eyes, heaving bosom and tawny allure energized a long series of sex-and-geography pictures (Gipsy Wildcat, South of Tahiti, Cobra Woman); in her reducing bath (probably of a heart attack brought on by the scalding water); in Paris, where she lived with her second husband, French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Died. Louis Adamic, 52, author (My America, The Native's Return); from a gunshot wound; in Flemington, N.J. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. John Sloan, 80, dean of U.S. artists; of cancer; in Hanover, N.H. When he began painting in the 1900s, Sloan's earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face, Sloan married twice, worked six hours a day until shortly before his death, once summed up his long career: "Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes living worthwhile."

Died. James Watson Gerard, 84, topflight corporation lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I (1913-17); of a bronchial ailment; in Southampton, N.Y. A conservative Democrat, he came, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, from a wealthy old New York family, pleased his countrymen by his brass-knuckled attitude toward Germany's haughty World War I diplomats. When one of them warned that 500,000 Germans in America would rise up if the U.S. entered the war, Gerard coldly replied that the U.S. had 500,000 lampposts from which to hang them. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the Germans threatened to delay Gerard's departure until he reaffirmed a 1799 treaty which the Germans had rewritten in their own favor. Gerard said he had no authority to sign the treaty, "and even if I had, I would stay here until hell freezes over before I would put my name to such a paper." The Germans gave in. Back in the U.S., he served as Democratic party treasurer (1918-1932) and convention delegate. His third volume of memoirs--My First Eighty-Three Years in America--was published in February.

Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland.

Died. William Neal ("Mr. Will") Reynolds, 88, tobacco magnate whose hobby was the breeding and racing of winning harness horses; in Winston-Salem, N.C. In 1919, after the death of his brother, R.J. Reynolds, he took over the tobacco company (Camels) his brother had founded, served as president until 1924, thereafter as board chairman.

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