Born. To Brenda Lewis, 38, Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Benjamin Cooper, consulting engineer: their first child, a daughter (Soprano Lewis has two sons by an earlier marriage); in Norwalk, Conn. Name: Edith Maureen. Weight: 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Married. Fess Parker, 35, TV's dashing Davy Crockett; and Marcie Rinehart, 31, his onetime secretary; both for the first time; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Divorced. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 39, son of the Navy's late polar explorer; by Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 39, daughter of Massachusetts' Senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Lowell, Mass.

Died. Manuel Jimenez, 33, jaunty, slapstick Spanish matador who spiced up his bullfights with so many daring stunts (his favorite: making a pass without looking at the bull) that the Spanish public considered him the matador most likely to die in the ring; in an airline crash at Montego Bay, Jamaica, that killed 36 others (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. General Mikhail S. Malinin, 60, chief of the Soviet General Staff's Operations Division, commander of the Soviet troops that crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising; in Moscow.

Died. Wei Li-huang, 64, wily Chinese Nationalist general who, after chopping up the Japanese in World War II and keeping the Communists at bay in the civil war that followed, inexplicably pulled out of a strongly fortified position in Manchuria at a crucial point in the war and went to live quietly in Hong Kong until 1955, when the Communists persuaded him to propagandize for them; of pneumonia; in Peking.

Died. Clarence George ("Pete") Wellington, 69, longtime (since 1916) staffer of the Kansas City Star who rose to managing editor (1947-54) and executive editor (since 1954), received a rare accolade from onetime Star Cub Reporter Ernest Hemingway: "He taught me how to write"; of a heart attack, while on a Caribbean cruise.

Died. Chief Big Bear, 78, Cree Indian performer in Will Rogers' and Tom Mix's gusty Wild West shows, whose baritone voice was praised by Enrico Caruso for its "remarkable control and range," whose craggy profile became the Pontiac automobile emblem; in Indianapolis.

Died. Dr. Wu Lien-teh, 81, plague expert who saved thousands of his fellow Chinese by rushing vaccine to them when the 1910 pneumonic plague epidemic struck, by convincing them that the plague was not a visitation of the gods but a curable earthly ill; in Penang, Malaya.

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