Milestones: Sep. 11, 1964

Born. To Rod Taylor, 34, onetime Australian artist turned Hollywood heartthrob (Sunday in New York), and Mary Hilem, 26, former Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.

Married. Gloria Richardson, 42, the nation’s No. 1 woman integrationist, spearhead of the civil rights demonstrations in Cambridge, Md.; and Frank Dandridge, 32, Negro freelance photographer from Manhattan; she for the second time; in Norwich, Conn.

Divorced. James Mason, 55, etched-in-acid British cinemactor (Lolita); by Pamela Mason, 46, radio and TV commentator; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty (she dropped the original charge of “habitual adultery”); after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: approximately $1,500,000. “A fleabite,” said James.

Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above; of injuries sustained when his glider nosedived into a macadam airstrip in Somerset, England.

Died. Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva, 51, better known as Bulletproof Perpétuo, Rio de Janeiro’s greatest detective, who for 30 charmed years outdrew, outpunched and outtalked the most fearsome bandidos in Rio’s slums; of a bullet wound inflicted by a jealous fellow officer who shot first, at point-blank range; in a dingy Rio bar.

Died. Dr. Norman Welch, 62, president of the American Medical Association since June, who dutifully took up the A.M.A.’s longstanding fight against medicare, but lacked the fiery rhetoric and unrelenting determination of former President Dr. Edward Annis; of a stroke; in Jackson, Wyo.

Died. Moe Gale, 65, co-founder and longtime proprietor (1926-54) of Harlem’s once famed, now torn-down Savoy Ballroom, where happy feet first stomped out the Lindy Hop, Big Apple and Susie-Q, and such cats as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, and Chick Webb first strutted their swinging stuff; after a long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Stewart Holbrook, 71, author and historian, a salty New Englander who in 20 fast-moving, informative volumes on early America (The Age of the Moguls, The Yankee Exodus) often found the human side more interesting than the heroic, serving up such tidbits as Ethan Allen’s incurable love of “stonewalls” (cider laced with rum) and the fact that Billy the Kid in real life was a bucktoothed adenoid case; of a stroke; in Portland, Ore.

Died. Robert Wilson, 71, former board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, administrator, inventor, scholar, and recently retired member of the Atomic Energy Commission; of a stroke; in Geneva (see SCIENCE).

Died. Sergeant Alvin York, 76, World War I Medal of Honor winner, one of the U.S. infantry’s great heroes; after a long illness; in Nashville, Tenn. (see THE NATION).

Died. Dr. Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, 82, longtime Columbia University history professor (1907-50), wartime ambassador to Spain (1942-45) and lifelong enemy of nationalism, who devoted the better part of 43 years of teaching and 27 books (Essays on Nationalism, Nationalism: A Religion) to warning of the dangers of the all-powerful modern state, writing on the eve of World War II that “nationality, the national state and national patriotism are the source of intolerance, militarism and war”: in Afton, N.Y.

Died. John Adams, 89, patriarch of the Massachusetts Adamses, a descendant of Presidents John and John Quincy and nephew of Historian Henry, himself a longtime president of the Massachusetts Historical Society who in 1954 first opened for public view the Adams family papers, a priceless collection of handwritten books, diaries and letters that offers a unique survey of the nation’s first century; of a stroke; in Concord, Mass.