BORN. To Jordan's American-born and Princeton-educated Queen Noor, 29, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 45: their second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Hashem, for Jordan's ruling Hashemite dynasty.

MARRIED BY PROXY. Alexei Semyonov, 24, graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University and stepson of exiled Soviet Dissident and Physicist Andrei Sakharov; and Liza Alexeyeva, 25, Moscow mathematician who has been barred from emigrating from the Soviet Union; he for the second time, she for the first; in Butte, Mont., because the state is one of the few to recognize proxy marriages. Semyonov, who has lived in the U.S. since 1978, spoke his vows to Alexeyeva's stand0-in, Edward Kline, editor of the Russian-language publishing house, Khronika Press.

DIED. Chester Gorman, 43, archaeologist and teacher of anthropology whose excavations in northern Thailand unearthed evidence of the world's earliest agricultural and Bronze Age society, predating similar developments in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley by several centuries and casting doubt on the theory that the Middle East was a "cradle of civilization"; of cancer; in Sacramento.

DIED. Allen Ludden, 63, affable, scholarly looking host of top-rated TV game shows, starting with the General Electric College Bowl during the 1950s and moving in 1962 to Password; of complications from cancer; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Russell ("Lucky") Hayden, 68, ne Pate Lucid, once known as the "rootin', tootin', ridin' Romeo of the screen." A sidekick to William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy series, he toured the country in 1950 asking kids if they approved of kissing in westerns (87% favored it if there was plenty of hard riding and fighting beforehand); of pneumonia; in Palm Springs.

DIED. Carleton Coon, 76, wide-ranging anthropologist who traced the development of humanity from its earliest stages to the first agricultural communities and whose many books include The Story of Man (1954) and The Seven Caves (1957); of cancer; in Gloucester, Mass.

DIED. Colgate Darden, 84, patriarchal Virginia Democrat and former Congressman who served as Governor from 1942 to 1946 and who, as president of the University of Virginia during the 1950s, modified his white-supremacist position and helped lead a successful fight against state-enforced school segregation; in Norfolk.

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