Born. To Takako Shimazu (formerly Princess Suga of Japan), 23, Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, and Hisanaga Shimazu, 28, her bank-clerk husband: their first child, a boy. Rank: commoner.

Born. To Princess Birgitta of Sweden, 25, former gymnastics teacher and granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 29, doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of Munich: a prince (who will automatically be excluded from Lutheran Sweden's royal line of succession because his father is a Roman Catholic).

Died. Mme. Helle Bonnet. 61.,chic. Greek-born widow of former (1944-55) French Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, whose World War II Gaullist activities she supported by opening a millinery shop in New York and whose postwar diplomatic success she ably furthered by restoring the dilapidated French embassy as the elegant focus of Washington society; of cancer; in Paris.

Died. Michel de Ghelderode (real name: Aldemar Martens). 63, noted Belgian playwright whose darkling dramas on medieval Flemish themes (best known: Splendors of Hell, Pantagleize) foreshadowed today's "theater of the absurd," a wizened hermit who rarely left the "dream'' room where he wrote surrounded by sepulchral puppets dressed up as characters from his plays; of asthma; in Brussels.

Died. Harry F. Waters, 67. prolific inventor of food-packaging devices who gave the world the paper tea bag, called a boon by billions and "the mouse in the teacup" by Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt; of a heart attack suffered aboard the Twentieth Century Limited; in Albany. N.Y.

Died. Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe, 73. former (1946-53) chief of M.I.5. Britain's fabled counter-espionage service, a stolid, strapping Londoner who worked his way up from ordinary constable, was drafted to run the secret service on the strength of his successes as a gangbusting police chief in a series of British cities, thereafter roamed the Commonwealth, often in disguise, investigating security capers that ranged from Communist meddling in the Mau Mau uprising to the defection of British scientists and diplomats; of leukemia; in Eastbourne, England.

Died. Henry McBride, 94, twinkly, oracular art critic for the old New York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx.

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