Born. To Dick Gregory, 39, the comic and activist who has been on a six-month fast (taking fruit juice and water only) to protest the Viet Nam War, and Lillian Gregory, 33, fellow crusader: their ninth child, a girl; in Chicago.

Married. Stavros Niarchos, 62, millionaire Greek shipowner; and Tina Livanos Onassis, 42, recently divorced from the Marquess of Blandford; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Paris. The ceremony marked the latest round of marital musical chairs, Olympian division. Shortly after World War II, Niarchos and his business rival, Aristotle Onassis, courted and won the daughters of Shipping Magnate Stavros Livanos. Tina wed Onassis, whom she later divorced. Niarchos, in the meantime, married and divorced Tina's older sister Eugenie. Later, he wed Henry Ford II's daughter Charlotte, then returned to Eugenie, who died last year from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Divorced. Peter Ustinov, 50, author, raconteur and the only Briton ever to win two Academy Awards for acting (for Spartacus in 1960 and Topkapi in 1964); by Suzanne Cloutier, 44, a French Canadian onetime actress; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Died. James E. Allen Jr., 60, former U.S. Commissioner of Education; with his wife Florence in the crash of a sightseeing plane near Peach Springs, Ariz. Allen, who earned his doctorate in education at Harvard, won a reputation for tough-minded innovation while serving 14 years as chief of New York State's labyrinthine school system. During that period he was castigated for his stands against prayer in the schools and in favor of busing. Thus when the Nixon Administration called him to Washington in 1969, the appointment was a surprise. What followed was not. Allen was soon in trouble because of his firm support of Government-fostered integration and his criticism of Viet Nam policies. The White House asked for and got Allen's resignation after 13 months.

Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue."

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