Born. To Bernadette Devlin, 24, Irish Catholic firebrand from the barricades of Bogside, who now has the dual distinction of being both the youngest member of Britain's Parliament and its first unwed mother: her first child, a daughter. Though still refusing to name the father, Bernadette bubbled, "I'm just like any other mother--I think my baby's beautiful."

Married. Jean Peters, 44, onetime movie actress (Captain from Castile, 1948) whose divorce from Industrialist Howard Hughes became final in June; and Stanley L. Hough, 51, a vice president of 20th Century-Fox; both for the third time; in West Los Angeles.

Married. Dick Martin, 49, har-de-har half of television's Rowan and Martin comedy team and Laugh-ln's slathering bachelor-in-residence; and Dolly Read, 24, English Playboy-Bunny-turned-actress; he for the second time, she for the first; in Honolulu.

Married. James Mason, 62, British film actor best known for his portrayals of such tormented characters as the wounded Irish revolutionist in Odd Man Out (1947), Judy Garland's drink-sodden husband in A Star Is Born (1954) and Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962); and Clarissa Kaye, 39, Australian actress; both for the second time; in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.

Married. Rex Harrison, 63, archetypical British sophisticate of stage and screen; and Elizabeth Harris, 35, former wife of Actor Richard Harris and daughter of Labor Peer Lord Ogmore; she for the second time, he for the fifth; in Centre Island, N.Y.

Died. Margaret Bourke-White, 67, one of the world's great photographers (see THE PRESS).

Died. Bennett Cerf, 73, book publisher (Random House), nonstop punster and professional TV gamesman; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia in 1919, Cerf bought his way into the book trade as a vice president of Boni & Liveright; in 1925 he borrowed from a wealthy uncle on Wall Street to buy the Modern Library from that failing firm for $200,000, later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What's My Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience for such writers as Faulkner, O'Neill, John O'Hara and Sinclair Lewis.

Died. Nathan Voloshen, 73, the Washington fixer who turned the office of former Speaker of the House John McCormack into an influence-peddler's paradise; in Manhattan. When indicted in 1970, Voloshen initially denied that he had illegally used his longtime friendship with the Speaker to obtain favors for clients. The dapper door opener, a Maryland attorney with New York offices, later pleaded guilty to a slew of offenses, all committed without McCormack's knowledge. Among the transgressions: lobbying to obtain reduced sentences for convicted racketeers. Because he cooperated with authorities, Voloshen was given a suspended sentence and fined a mere $10,000--$40,000 less than the fixer's fee he sometimes charged.

Died. Ted Lewis, 80, the cane-twirling entertainer in the trampled topper whose perennial query "Is everybody happy?" was addressed to three generations of fans; in Manhattan. Son of an Ohio dry-goods-store owner, he ran away from home to play the clarinet in Dr. Cooper's Herb Medicine Show and emerged as a big-time bandleader when Dixieland jazz caught on in the '20s. His quavering renditions of such Lewis classics as Me and My Shadow and On the Sunny Side of the Street were still pulling 'em in at the time of his final performance in 1965 at Broadway's Latin Quarter.

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