BORN. To Joseph P. Kennedy II, 28, second of Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children, and his wife Sheila, 30, daughter of a Philadelphia banker: twin boys; in Boston. Names: Joseph Patrick III and Matthew Rauch.

DIVORCED. Princess Caroline of Monaco, 23; and Philippe Junot, 40, French playboy and financial dabbler; after two years of marriage, no children; in Monte Carlo.

DIVORCED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, Oscar winner last seen on-screen as the abandoned husband who seeks to gain custody of his child in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer; and sometime Ballerina-Actress Anne Byrne, 36, after eleven years of marriage, one child; in New York City. Lately Hoffman has been squiring Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer.

DIED. George O'Neill, 59, anthropologist who extolled the virtues of sharing and free communication by spouses in Open Marriage, the 1972 bestseller written with his wife Nena, also an anthropologist, and was miffed that its title later became widely used as a catchphrase synonymous with extramarital sex; of complications following abdominal surgery; in New York City.

DIED. Bruce A. Gimbel, 67, merchant-sportsman who for 22 years headed the department-store chain that grew out of a single emporium in Indiana established by his grandfather Adam in 1842; of cardiac arrest; in Greenwich, Conn. An avid private pilot as well as a shrewd businessman, Gimbel led the chain's expansion into the growing suburbs in the '50s. In 1973 he negotiated sale of the firm, then 10% owned by the Gimbel family and now comprising 69 Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, to a subsidiary of the British-American Tobacco Co. for $195 million.

DIED. Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 72, president and chairman, between 1948 and 1976, of the Reynolds Metals Co., the big (1979 revenues: $3.3 billion) aluminum maker founded by his father in 1928; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A grandnephew of the founder of the Reynolds tobacco colossus, Reynolds liked to say that "profits are to business what breathing is to life." He helped launch a Wall Street brokerage firm (now part of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.) before moving to the aluminum company, which is still about 12% owned by the Reynolds family.

DIED. Pearl Luella Kendrick, 90, microbiologist who in 1939 helped develop a vaccine that led to the virtual eradication of whooping cough, long a childhood scourge; of cancer; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kendrick also developed the standard DPT shot, which provides combined protection against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.

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