Born. To Muhammad Ali, 30, doggerel-spouting former heavyweight boxing champ, and Belinda Ali, 22 their fourth child, first son; in Philadelphia. Name: Muhammad Eban.

Born. To Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., 36, command pilot on the Apollo 16 mission, and Elizabeth Mattingly; their first child, a son; in Texas City, Texas Name: Thomas Kenneth III.

Died. Dan Blocker, 43, Hoss Cartwright on TV's Bonanza series for 14 years; of a blood clot in the lung following surgery; in Inglewood, Calif. A former high school teacher, Blocker spent two knockabout years in Hollywood before getting a regular job as the Cartwright family's oversized middle son. The show became one of TV's most successful horse operas (400 million viewers in 84 countries) and made Blocker a millionaire.

Died. Alexander Korneichuk, 66, playwright-politician who became one of the Soviet Union's most prominent literary loyalists; in Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime in a variety of cultural-political assignments.

Died. Wallace S. Sayre, 66, urbanologist and early proponent of regional planning; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spokesman for city government reform since the 1930s, Sayre regarded the creation of combined city-and-suburban planning units as the salvation of metropolitan centers. Though a prominent academician, Sayre never forgot the practical lessons in hard-nosed politics that he received as a civil service commissioner under New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The 1960 study, Governing New York City, that he wrote with a colleague, Herbert Kaufman, became a classic how-to handbook for big-city mayors.

Died. Sidney Franklin, 79, Hollywood producer and director, whose 1942 production of Mrs. Miniver won an Academy Award for best picture; in Santa Monica, Calif. Franklin began as an actor in D.W. Griffith silent movies, then took a job behind the lens as an assistant cameraman. Ultimately, he became one of MGM's most successful directors (The Good Earth, The Barretts of Wimpole Street).

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