Born. To General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, about 48, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, about 22, newest of the four wives allowed to Amin by the Moslem religion: a daughter, her second child, his 14th; in Kampala.

Engaged. Chris Evert, 18, Florida's precocious tennis star whose skill on the court has netted her some $ 150,000 since she turned professional last winter; and Jimmy Connors, 21, reigning U.S. pro champion, who made his professional debut in 1972 at Wimbledon, where their courtship began.

Married. Alvin Ray ("Pete") Rozelle, 47, iron-willed commissioner of the $130 million-a-year National Football League since 1960; and Carrie Cooke, 35, of Los Angeles; both for the second time (he has one child, she has four); in New York City.

Died. Jimmy Cannon, 63, longtime reporter and syndicated sportswriter; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Cannon grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and at 17 went to work as a copy boy for the Daily News on the lobster shift. He covered everything from wars to murder trials but eventually settled down to sportswriting, encouraged by Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon. A chunky bachelor, Cannon wrote mainly about big-league sport. He also recounted debates of bettors and bums like Two Head Charlie and The Blotter as they examined life's ironies after midnight on the side streets off Broadway. In columns beginning "Nobody Asked Me But . . ." he offered such offbeat aphorisms as "Nothing improves an actress's diction more than marrying money."

Died. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, 81, a British government scientist who developed the first practical radar system; after a long illness; in Inverness, Scotland. A member of the same family to which the inventor of the steam engine, James Watt, belonged, Watson-Watt worked on what was then called "radio location," a process of bouncing radio waves off distant objects. Tested by tracking the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Munich and back in 1938, Watson-Watt's aircraft-spotting radar later helped his country repel German attacks during the Battle of Britain.

Died. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 82, President of Mexico from 1952-58, who cleaned up undisguised corruption, restored confidence in the government and extended the right to vote to Mexican women; of a heart attack; in Veracruz. An accountant who entered politics during the revolution of 1910-21 as mayor of the port of Veracruz, Ruiz Cortines was Governor of the state of Veracruz in 1947 when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Miguel Aleman. After his election to the presidency on a reform ticket, Ruiz Cortines published a list of his own assets, ordered his subordinates to do the same and held up payments on suspect contracts for public works.

Died. Alfred Carl Fuller, 88, the Horatio Alger of door-to-door selling who parlayed a $375 operation into the multi-million-dollar Fuller Brush Co.; of a form of blood cancer; in Hartford, Conn. Fuller got his foot in the door by making brushes at night and soft-selling them by day to housewives in Boston. He eventually recruited an army of Fuller Brush Men and "Fullerettes" that today numbers 25,000 and sells 325 varieties of household brushes, cosmetics and chemicals all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. According to Fuller's homespun philosophy, " 'American' terminates in 'I can' and 'Dough' begins with 'Do.' "

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