BORN. To Goldie Hawn, 33, dizzy blond of Laugh-In fame and Oscar-winning star of Cactus Flower, and her singer-comic husband Bill Hudson, 29: their second child, first daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Kate Garry.

DIED. Rogers C.B. Morton, 64, a Maryland Congressman from 1963 to 1971, Secretary of the Interior under President Nixon and Secretary of Commerce under President Ford; of cancer; in Easton, Md. After serving as an Army captain in World War II, Kentucky-born Morton joined the family biscuit business and, while helping his brother Thruston get elected to Congress, acquired a taste for politics. When the business merged with Pillsbury in 1951, Morton left his Kentucky home for Maryland's Eastern Shore, farmed for several years, and was elected to Congress. The tallest Representative (6 ft. 7 in.) quickly shot up in the G.O.P. In 1969 Nixon appointed him Republican national chairman and, two years later, Secretary of the Interior. Unscathed by Watergate, Morton in 1975 was named Commerce Secretary by Ford, whose presidential campaign he managed in 1976. An avid outdoorsman and sailor who was often thwarted by the White House in his efforts to "purify the environment," Morton was so fond of his adopted state's boating basin that he liked to say, "My initials C.B. stand for Chesapeake Bay." Actually, they stood for Clark Ballard.

DIED. Edward Fields, 66, leading designer and manufacturer of custom carpets, whose "area rugs" (his coinage) grace the floors of the White House Oval Office and the homes of the Rockefellers and Fords; of a heart attack; in Clearwater, Fla.

DIED. Donald K. David, 83, Idaho-born businessman and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business (1942-55) who was responsible for promoting the case system of business education and for attracting one of the school's greatest patrons, John D. Rockefeller Jr.; in Hyannis, Mass.

DIED. Clarence Dillon, 96, Wall Street wizard of the '20s who guided the investment and banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co. to international prominence and father of C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1961-65); in Far Hills, N.J. The Harvard-educated son of a Texas merchant, Dillon joined Wm. A. Read & Co. in 1914 and ascended to its presidency in less than five years. He rattled Wall Street in 1925 by defeating Finance King J.P. Morgan in a bidding war for the Dodge Brothers Auto Co. The $146 million check Dillon presented to the Dodge widows was then the largest cash transaction ever. After vastly expanding the firm's overseas investments, Dillon retired from business to cultivate, among other interests, the claret-yielding grapes of his famed Chateau Haut-Brion vineyard in France.

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