Milestones: Milestones

Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 35, daughter of the late Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 51, who specializes in painfully detailed paintings of decay and degeneration (Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray painted for M-G-M): their second child, first daughter (she had two children by a former marriage); in Chicago. Name: Blandina van Etten. Weight: 7 Ibs. 12 oz.

Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.

Died. Christian (“Bebe”) Berard, 46, French artist and designer of costumes and theatrical sets (Beauty and the Beast, The Madwoman of Chaillot), credited with inspiring fashion’s 1947 New Look; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris.

Died. Battling Levinsky* (real name: Barney Lebrowitz), 58, onetime (1916-20) light-heavyweight boxing champion who fought 560 bouts in a 19-year ring career, once fought 41 times in 40 weeks; in Philadelphia.

Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: “Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . .” (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain’s Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes.

Died. Dr. Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe, 91, frail, spade-bearded Swedish physician (onetime patients: Sweden’s King Gustaf V and Queen Victoria) who sought a cure for his insomnia by writing a book which turned out to be the internationally best-selling The Story of San Michele (named for his house on the Isle of Capri); in Stockholm’s Royal Palace, where he had been a house guest since 1943. Munthe’s gossipy autobiography earned $500,000, which he gave to charity for the establishment of wildlife refuges and a bird sanctuary on his beloved Capri.

* Not to be confused with onetime (1928-39) Heavyweight King Levinsky (real name: Harry Krakow).