Born. To Mimi Benzell, 29, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned TV songbird, and Concert Manager Walter A. Gould, 34: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Willis. Weight: 7 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. William Vincent Astor, 61, retired U.S. Naval Reserve captain and real-estate king and Socialite Roberta Russell Marshall, fortyish; both for the third time; in Bar Harbor, Me.

Died. Kathleen Ferrier. 41, Lancashire lass who found her singing voice at 25 and was soon acclaimed one of the world's top contraltos; of cancer; in London.

Died. Nigel Bruce, 58, cinemactor, best known for his characterizations of Sherlock Holmes's bumbling friend, Dr. Watson; of a coronary thrombosis; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Hastings William Sackville Russell, 64, twelfth Duke of Bedford and one of Britain's richest men (his fortune was once estimated at $14 million); of a shotgun wound, apparently accidental, while hunting alone on his 12,000-acre Devon estate. An eccentric, fuzzy-minded pacifist, Bedford could, and often did, switch causes at the drop of an ideal. Having had enough of Bedford's muddled diatribes, the House of Lords once resolved that "the noble Duke no longer be heard." Ill at ease with most people, he often preferred the company of deer, bison and parakeets, was especially fond of spiders.

Died. Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell, 67, one of Britain's top naval heroes in World War I, winner of the Victoria Cross after commanding one of the Royal Navy's top-secret "Q" ships (armed U-boat hunters disguised as defenseless freighters); of a heart ailment; near London.

Died. Lord Strabolgi, 67, Britain's "Labor Peer," an articulate traitor to his class, who delighted in rocking the House of Lords; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Although his father and American mother had fought and won a hard genealogical battle to establish their right to the 635-year-old family title, Strabolgi seemed to wish they had lost. To the dismay of his fellow peers, he once snorted: "The House of Lords . . . is a picturesque survival of the feudal system . . . out of tune with the modern world . . . Better let it go the way of the divine right of kings."

Died. James Earle Fraser, 76, who at 17 fashioned the model for one of the most famed and popular of U.S. sculptures, End of the Trail, depicting a weary Indian sagging on an exhausted pony, later designed the buffalo nickel; of a heart ailment; in Westport, Conn.

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