BORN. To Judith Carr, 28, and Roger Carr, 30; the first in vitro baby born in the U.S., a daughter; in Norfolk. Name: Elizabeth Jordan Carr. Weight: 5 Ibs. 12 oz.

DIED. Philip Handler, 64, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and biochemist who earned international recognition for his discoveries on the nutritional causes of disease; of cancer; in Boston. Under Handler's direction, the academy sponsored hundreds of studies on drugs, food and the environment. His investigations into the link between pellagra and vitamin B deficiencies helped erase the disease in rural areas of the South.

DIED. Franjo Seper, 76, Yugoslavia-born Cardinal who was an influential member of the Vatican hierarchy as head of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the Holy Office), a post he served in from 1968 to 1981; of a heart attack; in Rome.

DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening. He also played a laconic, streetwise piano player in a handful of movies, including To Have and Have Not and Young Man with a Horn.

DIED. Edwin H. Knopf, 82, actor, screenwriter, director and producer of more than 20 films; in Brentwood, Calif. Knopf's best known movie, the musical Lili (1953), was nominated for six Academy Awards. Edwin's brother Alfred, 89, founded the Knopf publishing firm in 1915.

DIED. James Curran Davis, 86, eight-time Georgia Congressman (1947-1963) and rabid segregationist who once proclaimed, "The white people of the South are not going to school with blacks, eat with them or live with them"; in Atlanta.

DIED. Bram Van Velde, 86, melancholic Dutch-born abstract expressionist painter; in Grimaud, France. Van Velde's life before World War II was almost a prototype of the lot of the unrecognized artist: hunger, despair and an unending search for patrons. After the war, he attracted supporters who saw in his work a sense of the absurd that reflected the existentialist experience. Commented Playwright Samuel Beckett: "He confronts without restriction and complacency the anguishes of our time."

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