Born. To Samantha Eggar, 25, poor butterfly in The Collector's net, and Tom Stern, 30, sometime actor (Never Too Late): their first child, a son; in Hollywood.

Born. To Ringo Starr, 25, the Beatles' rock-a-lot drummer, and Maureen Cox, 19, Liverpudlian hairdresser: a son; in London.

Married. Geraldine Veronica Stutz, 41, president of Henri Bendel, Manhattan stronghold of avant-garde chic; and David Arthur Gibbs, 43, abstract painter; he for the second time; in Newtown, Conn.

Died. Marshall Field Jr., 49, Chicago press lord, publisher-owner of the Sun-Times and Daily News, several news syndicates and the best-selling World Book Encyclopedia; of an apparent heart attack; in Chicago. Great-grandson and heir (estimated personal fortune: $75 million) of 19th century Chicago Merchant Marshall Field, Marshall Jr. first studied law, but in 1950 reluctantly assumed the helm of the floundering Sun-Times, founded by his father in 1941, cautiously brought it out of the red and built it into the U.S.'s most sober tabloid, reflecting his private brand of progressive Republicanism, went on to strengthen and expand his publishing empire by buying the News in 1959 and in 1963 forming a joint news syndicate with the New York Herald Tribune.

Died. Edmund W. Tabell, 61, Wall Street market analyst, who joined Walston & Co. (fourth-biggest U.S. brokerage house) as research director in 1948, immediately proved his skill by correctly predicting a market rise in the face of postwar recession gloom, thereafter established himself as one of the best and most successful (more than $100,000 a year) bird dogs on the Street; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn.

Died. General Lucian King Truscott Jr., 70, World War II commander, a brilliant tactician and master of amphibious landing who commanded beachheads in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, later led the VI Corps up the Italian boot and into Southern France at a speed his troops dubbed "Truscott's Trot"; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Angelo Patri, 87, pioneer U.S. educator, an Italian immigrant who turned New York's Bronx Junior High School 45 into an early model of Dewey progressivism ("learning by doing"), and for nearly 40 years wrote a highly regarded column of parental advice ("Our Children") syndicated daily in some 100 U.S. newspapers; following a heart attack; in Danbury, Conn.

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