Born. To Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, 27, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 35, second son of the 12th Earl of Airlie: their first child, a son (the first of four royal babies due in the House of Windsor this spring); in the London suburb of Richmond.

Married. Peggy Lee, 43, platinum-crested, sex-tuned thrush whose frenetics made a painfully unforgettable screaming mambo out of that nice old Richard Rodgers waltz, Lover; and Jack del Rio, 38, onetime bongo drummer, now her bandleader; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Grace Metalious, 39, author of history's bestselling novel, Peyton Place (300,000 hard-cover copies, 8,000,000 paperbacks); of chronic liver disease; in Boston. The coarse, ponytailed wife of a Gilmanton, N.H., elementary-school principal, Metalious took as her literary battle cry "Sex is all around us"; her lurid, thinly disguised account of adultery, rape and abortion in a small New England village so enraged Gilmanton that her husband lost his job, whereupon Grace fired him too, took off on a hard-living celebrity whirl, ground out three more sexpotboilers, married and divorced a disk jockey, and ended in a "literary collaboration" with a Welsh writer to whom she left her estate (worth about $1,000,000), in a deathbed will that is already being fought on behalf of her three children.

Died. Gus Lesnevich, 49, light-heavyweight boxing champ from 1941 to 1948, a brawny Jerseyite who turned pro at 19, won his title by beating Tami Mauriello, successfully defended it four times, until he finally lost to Britain's Freddie Mills in 1948, retiring the next year after being flattened by Ezzard Charles in a heavyweight bout; of a heart attack; in Cliff side Park, N.J.

Died. Johnny Burke, 55, songwriter who composed more than 500 cheerfully unpretentious Hollywood tunes, most often as part of movie scores for Longtime Friend Bing Crosby, was responsible for many of the Groaner's most durable hits, including Pennies from Heaven, Personality, and the Oscar-winning Swinging on a Star, delivered by "Father" Crosby in Going My Way; of unknown causes (pending completion of an autopsy); in Manhattan.

Died. Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, 62, British wartime secret agent in France, who turned from his job as director of the Molyneux Paris fashion house to become the elusive "White Rabbit" famed for his exploits in organizing the French Resistance, endured agonizing tortures when finally captured by the Nazis in 1944, twice organized prison camp breakouts and ultimately escaped just before V-E day, though for the rest of his life he "never spent a day without a headache," the result of a skull fractured by the Gestapo; of a stroke; in Paris.

Died. Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian-born Hollywood dress designer who put Kay Kendall in feathers for Les Girls, Roz Russell in black lace pajamas as Auntie Mame, Marilyn Monroe in a shimmy for Some Like It Hot, gave Shirley MacLaine a pretty green slip as Irma, but Natalie Wood only a few spangles for Gypsy; of cancer of the liver; in Hollywood.

Died. Alexander Archipenko, 76, Ukrainian-born sculptor who in 1909 shocked Paris by giving a third dimension to the cubism of Braque and Picasso, produced in the years that followed a 1,000-piece gallery of fluid and generally bulbous angularities (among the best-known: The Boxer and Gondolier), developing many popular techniques, such as the use of hunks of glass and mother-of-pearl, tunneling holes through anatomy long before Henry Moore; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

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