Born. To Vidal Sassoon, 40, New York-based British hair stylist to the Beautiful People (Mia Farrow, Suzy Parker, Nancy Kwan), and Beverly Adams, 22, Hollywood starlet (The Silencers): their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan.

Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe Show in 1959 and made his Broadway debut in 1964's Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 68, Presiding Bishop from 1959 to 1965 of the 3.5 million-member Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. and one of its leading advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving."

Died. Crane Brinton, 70, longtime (1923-68) Harvard history professor, whose books on Western political thought, and particularly on revolution (A Decade of Revolution: 1789-99, Nietzsche), proved him a master in his field; after a long illness; in Cambridge, Mass. One of the most popular of contemporary historians, Brinton was also one of the most perceptive. In The Anatomy of Revolution (1938), a study of four major upheavals, from the English rebellion of 1640 to the Russian Revolution of 1917, he spelled out his now-familiar theory that revolutions stem from hope not despair, from the promises of progress rather than from continuous oppression.

Died. Juan Jose Castro, 73, Argentina's foremost conductor-composer, who exiled himself shortly after Dictator Juan Peron came to power in 1946, toured the world's concert halls for nine years before returning home; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buenos Aires. During his long exile, Castro led orchestras from Melbourne to Belgrade, brought his lean, thoroughly modern style to numerous Latin-flavored works, most notably the opera Proserpina and the Stranger, which premiered to a tumultuous ovation at Milan's La Scala in 1952.

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