Born. To William Waldorf, 3rd Viscount Astor, 56, son of Virginia-born Nancy Astor, who in 1963 made the family's Cliveden estate almost as famous for profumation as it was for pro-Munich politics before World War II, and Lady Astor, 33, former model Bronwen Pugh: their second child (his fourth), second daughter; at Cliveden.

Divorced. By Eartha Kitt, 36, lynx-like Negro songstress famed for a near-purrfect version of Monotonous: William McDonald, 34, white Los Angeles real estate man; on grounds of cruelty; after nearly four years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Peter Lorre, 59, a squat, morose Hungarian actor with a heart of ghoul, who first chilled spines as the psychopathic child killer in the German classic M, moved to Hollywood in 1934 to take such varied roles as Mr. Moto and a passport racketeer in Casablanca, in more than 80 movies was chiefly famed for his bug-eyed, nasal-voiced mastery of menace and the macabre; of a stroke; in Hollywood.

Died. Andrew Thomas Frain, 60, founder and chief executive of Andy Frain Crowd Engineering Service, the U.S. House of Usher; one of 17 children of a Chicago immigrant hod carrier, who started moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn.

Died. Jack Cotton, 61, British property tycoon, a Birmingham urban developer who changed his native skyline so drastically that by 1950 residents joked about Birmingham "B.C." (before Cotton), in 1960 merged with London Financier Charles Clore to form the world-girdling, $1 billion City Centre Properties Ltd. (whose assets include 50% of Manhattan's Pan Am building), but soon found Clore a bore and, seriously ill, sold out to the Clore corps last year; of a heart attack; in Nassau.

Died. Emerson Wirt Axe, 69, Wall Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

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