Born. To Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, 55, thrice-wed knight of the British theater; and Joan Plowright, 33, ragdoll-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey): their second child, first daughter; in Hove, Sussex. Name: Tamsin Agnes Margaret.

Divorced. Craig Francis Cullinan Jr., 37, Texaco oil heir; by Alison Prescott Cullinan, former Manhattan deb; after 11 years of marriage, one daughter: in Houston. Settlement: $765,916.71.

Divorced. David Lee Merrick, 51, Broadway's most bombastic and successful producer, who has put on more than 20 hit shows since 1954; by Leonore Beck Merrick; after 24 years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas. Settlement: $90,000, plus alimony of $26,000 a year.

Died. John Womack Vandercook, 60, velvet-voiced news analyst for NBC and ABC, who wrote 14 books on his journeys, among them the 1928 bestseller Black Majesty on Haiti's fierce King Christophe, later became one of World War II's best-known radio newsmen; of a heart attack; in Delhi, N.Y. One memorable report: "Bombs drapped on the jops. I mean bombs japped on the dops . . . Well, anyway, they hit them."

Died. Boris Mihailovich Morros, 68, Hollywood producer who doubled as a U.S. cold war counterspy; of cancer; in Manhattan. Well-known for his musicals (Tales of Manhattan) in the 1930s and '40s, suave, Russian-born Morros was contacted in 1943 by the Soviets, who used his father as a hostage; he pretended to turn Communist, for years endured snubs and abuse from his fellow citizens while quietly collecting information for the FBI that helped crack Convicted Traitor Jack Soble's atom spy ring. Said Morros after it was all over: "I had to do more realistic acting than any of the players I ever directed in Hollywood."

Died. Bonar Thompson, 74, Britain's foremost practitioner of the art of soapbox oratory, whose clarion Irish brogue dominated London's Hyde Park Corner for half a century; in London.

Died. Sir Bruce Ingram, 85, working editor since 1900 of Britain's Illustrated London News; of a heart attack; in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Given a trial as editor of the well-bred journal his grandfather began in 1842, Ingram established himself at the age of 23 with an unparalleled scoop of Queen Victoria's funeral; he stationed 24 artists along the route to Windsor Castle, matched their drawings into 24 double-truck spreads and hit the newsstands within three days. Said Ingram, when photography replaced the sketches, and sepia-tinted rotogravure became the News's trademark: "A pity, really--the camera never sees all the things the eye does."

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