Born. To John Wayne, 58, who last month finished Eldorado, his 166th movie, and Pilar Palette Wayne, 37, his third wife: their third child, second daughter; in Encino, Calif.

Married. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 25, better known as Pele, Brazil's--and probably the world's--best soccer player; and Rosemary Cholbi, 20, a Santos dockworker's daughter; in Santos, Brazil.

Married. Brian Donlevy, 63, now playing the mad scientist in Hollywood's The Curse of the Fly; and Lillian Arch Lugosi, 54, ex-wife of the late Bela (Dracula) Lugosi; he for the third time, she for the second; in Indio, Calif.

Died. Charles Von Fremd, 40, CBS newscaster, who reported on Washington from 1953 to 1957 when he shifted his beat to space, covering nearly every mission from the first Navaho rocket firings to last December's Gemini space rendezvous; apparently of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Victor Weisz, 52, Britain's acerb political cartoonist "Vicky," an aggressive socialist who over 25 years leveled his pen at everyone on his right from John Foster Dulles, whom he showed brandishing H-bombs, to Tory Harold Macmillan, whom he drew as the winged "Supermac," and Charles de Gaulle, whom he captioned with the famed inverted quotation, "Apres le deluge--moil"; of as yet undetermined causes; in London.

Died. James D. Norris, 59, sports promoter and onetime Mr. Big of boxing; following a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago millionaire, Norris won notoriety in the late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago and St. Louis.

Died. Victor Kravchenko, 61, wartime Soviet .defector, an army captain who sought asylum while on duty as a supply officer in Washington in 1944, briefly held the limelight with his best-selling I Chose Freedom (1946), later changed his name to "Peter Martin" because "I am an American" and continued his writings, though he lived in constant fear of Red reprisal; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in his Manhattan apartment, where friends said he had been depressed over the Viet Nam war "and other things."

Died. Boris Nicolaevsky, 78, renowned Kremlinologist, a Russian-born Social Democrat who in 1940, after 18 years of exile in Europe following expulsion by the Bolsheviks, arrived in the U.S. to write more than a dozen works on Soviet life, such as Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), for which he and Co-Author David J. Dallin were denounced in the U.N. as "idiots or gangsters" by the late Andrei Vishinsky; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif.

Died. The Rev. Bernard Braskamp, 79, chaplain of the House of Representatives since 1950, who invariably described his duties thus: "At the start of each day's session, I look out over the House and then I pray for the country"; of a stroke; in Washington.

Died. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, 80, who led history's greatest armada to victory in the Pacific; of pneumonia; on Yerba Buena Island, in San Francisco Bay (see THE NATION).

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