Born. To Mickey Rooney, 41, Hollywood cinemidget who has played Puck in 82 films, and Barbara Ann Rooney, 25, his fifth wife: their third child, first son (Rooney has three sons by previous wives). Weight: 8 Ibs. 2 oz.

Married. Edward ("Kookie") Byrnes, 28, jive-talking junior shamus of TV's 77 Sunset Strip; and Alabama-born Cinema Starlet Asa Maynor, 24; at Beverly Hills' All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Sunset Strip Colleagues Roger Smith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as best man and usher.

Married. William Black, 53, chunky, outspoken founder of the Chock Full O' Nuts coffee-packing and quick-lunch chain; and Vocalist Page Morton, 32, the second wife in a row whom Philanthropist Black (who bankrolled the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and recently donated a $5,000,000 medical research building to Columbia University) has employed to sing his company's TV commercials; he for the third time, she for the first; in Stamford, Conn.

Died. Homer William Smith, 67, lanky, leading U.S. physiologist who was first to trace the evolution of the kidney, for 34 years taught New York University medical students to reflect on the arts as well as the sciences, and as a passionate agnostic sought to prove in his books Kamongo and Man and His Gods that organized religion is a figment of man's fearful myths; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Brigadier General Robert Reese Neyland, U.S.A. (ret.), 70, aloof, single-wing wizard whom Knute Rockne called "football's greatest coach," a Texas-born, West Point-educated authoritarian who in a quarter century of time borrowed from his official career as an Army engineer built the University of Tennessee's Volunteers into the nation's "winningest" football team, ran up a record of 171 wins v.

only 27 defeats by stressing solid precision tactics--he would rehearse a play 500 times before using it in a game--and for all his hard-bitten exterior raised a whole generation of U.S. football coaches ranging from Yale's late Herman Hickman to Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd; of a liver and kidney ailment; in New Orleans.

Died. Auguste Piccard, 78, white-maned Swiss explorer-scientist who in the Jules Verne manner broke both the world altitude and depth records aboard his own inventions; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland (see SCIENCE).

Died. Anton Otto Fischer, 80, preeminent U.S. illustrator of sea stories (including the Saturday Evening Post's Tugboat Annie and Colin Glencannon series), a droll, Bavarian-born artist who acquired his blue water palette during eight youthful years on windjammers; of a heart attack; in Woodstock, N.Y.

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