Born. To Edward, Duke of Kent, 28, madcap captain in the Royal Scots Greys, cousin to Queen Elizabeth, and Katharine, Duchess of Kent, 31: their second child, first daughter (13th in line to the British throne); at Coppins, in Buckinghamshire.

Born. To Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 33, and Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, 34, portrait photographer: their second child, first daughter (seventh in line for the succession); in Kensington Palace, London, thereby completing this spring's quartet of royal babies--a boy to Princess Alexandra and Queen Elizabeth, and two girls. Burbled Tony: "She looks a super-baby!"

Married. Princess Irene of The Netherlands, 24, and Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbon y Parma, 34, in Rome (see THE WORLD).

Died. Harry Holt, 59, prosperous Oregon farmer who in 1954 was so moved by a documentary describing the plight of Korean babies fathered by G.I.s that he and his wife adopted eight, went on to set up an orphanage north of Seoul, battle U.S. immigration quotas and orthodox welfare agencies to place 3,000 more adopted waifs in American homes; of a heart attack; in Ilsan, Korea.

Died. Joshua Whatmough (rhymes with wha ho), 67, Harvard linguistics professor from 1926 to 1963; of a stroke; in Winchester, Mass. A real-life 'Enry 'Iggins, Whatmough spoke eleven languages from Hittite to Franglais, but was best known for his theory of the "selective variation" of languages, which held that they evolve by natural selection in a mathematically predictable course (by 3020, English will have lost most irregular verbs), a theory Whatmough developed in the 1920s, but could not demonstrate until the postwar development of computers.

Died. Sir Milton Margai, 68, Prime Minister of the diamond-rich West African Commonwealth of Sierra Leone (pop. 2,600,000), a British-trained gynecologist who spent 20 years in jungle practice before entering politics to champion the cause of his backwoods tribesmen against the more sophisticated coastal folk, led his People's Party to victory in 1951, ran the colony so well that Britain granted independence in 1961, after which he maintained conservative, pro-Western policies; after a long illness; in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Died. Nancy, the Dowager Lady Astor, 84, the devil-may-care Virginia belle who became Britain's first woman Member of Parliament; after a long illness; at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire (see THE WORLD).

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