Born. To Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 54, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for historical writing (The Age of Jackson in 1946, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1966), once an aide to Kennedy and now an adviser to the McGovern campaign, and Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger, 36: their first child, a son; in Manhattan.

Engaged. Susan Scott Agnew, 24, daughter of the Vice President and coordinator of volunteer services for a Maryland hospital; and Carroll William Stein, 30, field investigator for the Maryland department of employment and social services. It will be the first marriage for both.

Divorced. John Unitas, 39, veteran quarterback of the Baltimore Colts; and Dorothy Unitas; on grounds of incompatibility; after 18 years of marriage, five children; in Reno. Whereupon Unitas married Sandra Louise Lemon, 28, a Miami secretary.

Died. Charles Tazewell, 72, Broadway stage actor and founder of the Brattleboro, Vt., Little Theater, who in three days in 1939 wrote The Littlest Angel, the children's Christmas tale that became an international classic; in Chesterfield, N.H.

Died. Raymond P. Holden, 78, poet, novelist and editor; of leukemia; in North Newport, N.H. Holden's first love and special talent was verse, and he published several collections of sensitive, tightly constructed poems (Granite and Alabaster, 1922; Natural History, 1938; The Reminding Salt, 1965). His varied career included three years as executive editor of The New Yorker (1929-32) and stints as a brokerage-firm research analyst and a financial editor. Under the pseudonym Richard Peckham, he also wrote mysteries.

Died. Jean C. Witter, 80, honorary board chairman and co-founder in 1924 of Dean Witter & Co., now the fourth largest investment banking firm in the U.S.; in Piedmont, Calif.

Died. Nat ("Mr. Boxing") Fleischer, 84, fight historian and founder of Ring magazine; in Manhattan. The merger of the New York World and the Telegram in 1931 brought about both the end of Fleischer's employment as sports editor of the latter and the start of his full-time devotion to Ring. For half a century the magazine's ratings of contenders, plus Fleischer's encyclopedic Ring Record Book, built Mr. Boxing's reputation as one of the sport's leading authorities and most pugnacious defenders. "There are just as many thieves in boxing as in banking," he once admitted. "Only not such big ones."

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