Born. To Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 53, Nobel-prizewinning Soviet novelist (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward, August 1914), and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, 32: their second child, second son; in Moscow. Name: Ignat.

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Married. Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for the second; in Dublin.

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Died. Henry Dreyfuss, 68, industrial designer who creatively shaped many of today's most familiar household products; and his wife and business partner, Doris, 69; by self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning; in South Pasadena, Calif. Dreyfuss was a young stage designer at the start of the Depression when he turned his talents to industry. During the next four decades he fashioned such everyday items as Big Ben alarm clocks, Hoover vacuum cleaners, Royal typewriters and the Trimline telephone.

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Died. Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey, 69, bluff, indomitable archaeologist who argued that his excavations added a million years to man's known presence on earth; of a heart attack; in London. From the Olduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania, Leakey and his wife, Mary, unearthed the 1.75 million-year-old remains of the Zinjanthropus (East Africa Man) in 1959. One year later they uncovered the slightly older remains of the Homo habilis, which Leakey identified as the first primitive tool-user. These discoveries, Leakey asserted, demonstrated that different species of men existed simultaneously and proved that their origins were in Africa rather than Asia. Though some paleontologists disputed Leakey's claims, in 1961 he unearthed still older fossils which, he insisted, showed the existence of manlike creatures who lived as long as 15 million years ago.

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Died. Dr. Solomon Lefschetz, 88, pioneering mathematician in algebraic geometry and topology (the study of constant properties in changing geometric forms); in Princeton, N.J. Trained as an engineer, Lefschetz turned to theoretical mathematics after losing both hands in a 1910 accident. For nearly 30 years the peppery theorist was on the Princeton faculty, where colleagues called him G.W.F., for Great White Father. He also edited Annals of Mathematics, making it one of the most respected journals of its kind.

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