Milestones Jul. 19, 1999

BORN. WYATT GORE SCHIFF, son of Vice President Al Gore’s daughter Karenna Gore Schiff and husband Andrew Schiff; on July 4. He is the Gores’ first grandchild.

MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Between former model JERRY HALL and senescent rocker MICK JAGGER. Jagger’s legal tack–that their Hindu wedding on Bali nine years ago was not binding–didn’t prevent his ceding to Hall a sum London tabloids put at $15.5 million. The couple, who have four children, reached a settlement the day their divorce trial was to start.

DIED. MARK O’BRIEN, 49, author and poet; from complications of bronchitis; at his home in Berkeley, Calif. O’Brien, the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Breathing Lessons, wrote by typing with a stick in his mouth. He lived in a 650-lb. iron lung most of his life.

DIED. JAMES FARMER, 79, courageous, booming-voiced Gandhian who along with Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins was one of the four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer’s Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit-ins and Freedom Rides to integrate the public places and transport of the South in the 1950s and ’60s. Asked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to postpone some of their actions so that people could “cool off,” Farmer replied, “We have been cooling off for 350 years.”

DIED. CHARLES (“Pete”) CONRAD, 69, third man to walk on the moon; in a motorcycle accident; in Ojai, Calif. Conrad was one of the more colorful astronauts. Setting foot on the lunar surface he said, “Whoopee! That may have been one small [step] for Neil, but it’s a long one for me!” Recently he had been trying to start a space airline.

DIED. DR. C. WALTON LILLEHEI, 80, surgical pioneer; of cancer; in St. Paul, Minn. Lillehei performed the first successful open-heart surgery, on a five-year-old girl, in 1952. He was instrumental in developing the wearable pacemaker and artificial heart valves.