BORN. To Mary Steenburgen, 30, Oscar-winning American actress (Melvin and Howard), and Malcolm McDowell, 40, British actor best known as the cherub-faced punk in A Clockwork Orange: their second child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Charles Malcolm. Weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz.

DIED. Sergei Chalibashvili, 21, Soviet diver; of heart failure, after having struck his head (incurring multiple skull fractures) on the ten-meter-high platform while attempting a 3 1/2 reverse somersault in tuck position at the World University Games; in Edmonton, Alta. The athlete had had trouble in executing the difficult dive in practice. Anticipating tragedy, other divers along with U.S. Coach Bob Rydze could not watch his competition effort. Said Rydze in anger after the July 10 accident: "It's the coach's responsibility to make sure his divers are not attempting dives they're not capable of doing."

DIED. Ross Macdonald, 67, writer of taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern American mystery authors, Macdonald developed a wise, melancholy voice of his own, writing not only about violence and retribution but, as he put it, about "people with enough feeling to be hurt and enough complexity to do wrong."

DIED. A.T. Baker, 68, versatile TIME writer and editor; of cancer; in Washington Depot, Conn. In his 35 years with the magazine, Bobby Baker covered areas ranging from national and foreign affairs to art and architecture. But his deep love of literature produced some of his most memorable writing, including cover stories on Robert Frost (1950) and Andre Malraux (1955), and an essay on the state of American poetry (1971).

DIED. Eddie Foy Jr., 78, comic song-and-dance man whose career began at age five in his vaudevillian father's act "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," and whose marvelously rubbery face and limbs stole shows on Broadway and TV and in the movies, most famously in The Pajama Game; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif.

DIED. Edwin Denby, 80, America's finest dance critic (Looking at the Dance), whose meticulous analytical skills were gloriously partnered by his vivid, poetic language; by his own hand, after a long illness; in Searsport, Me. Educated at Harvard and the Vienna University, Denby wrote for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and went on to become the foremost critic of classical American ballet, reserving his highest praise for the work of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and especially George Balanchine.

DIED. Werner Egk, 82, German composer best known for his opera Peer Gynt (1938), banned by Nazi authorities as a satire of the Reich until Hitler restored the production by praising it; of heart disease; in Inning, West Germany. Egk headed the German Union of Composers during World War II but was absolved of taint at a 1947 de-Nazification trial. Strongly influenced by early Stravinsky, he wrote essentially conservative, polyrhythmic operas like The Inspector General (1957), and a controversial ballet, Abraxas, which was banned as obscene in Munich after its 1948 premiere there. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.