Milestones: Mar. 31, 1961

Born. To Chiang Hsiao-wen, 25, Chiang Kai-shek’s eldest grandson who is in the export-import business in Taipei, and Nancy Chiang, 22, granddaughter of onetime Gimo comrade in arms: their first child, a daughter, and first great-grandchild of 73-year-old Chiang; in Taipei.

Born. To Kay Williams Spreckels Gable, 42, onetime Hollywood starlet, fifth wife and widow of the late Clark Gable: his first child (she had a son and a daughter by her marriage to Sugar Millionaire Adolph Spreckels II), a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Clark Gable.

Married. Christiane Martel, 25, Miss Universe of 1953 and sometime cinemactress; and Miguel Aleman Jr., 29, handsome son of Mexico’s ex-President; she for the second time, he for the first; in Mexico City.

Married. Eunice Bailey Oakes, about 32, British-born beauty and the widow of William Pitt Oakes, whose father, Sir Harry Oakes, was mysteriously murdered in Nassau in 1943; and Robert David Lion Gardiner, fiftyish, longtime bachelor and owner of Gardiner’s Island, a 3,300-acre tract off eastern Long Island that has been in the family since 1639 and that becomes the property of Yale if there are no Gardiner heirs; in New York City. An outpouring of diamond-studded society made it the winter’s most glittering wedding.

Died. Heinrich Rau, 61, a charter member of the German Communist Party who directed the drive to nationalize the East German economy and was rewarded with the title of Deputy Premier; of a heart attack; in East Berlin.

Died. Brazilla Carroll Reece, 71, veteran conservative Republican Representative from the Tennessee hill country, whose chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee in 1946 helped win the party its first control of Congress in 16 years; of lung cancer; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Maurice de Wendel, 82, last survivor of the seventh generation of dynastic Lorraine iron and steelmakers, who as head of “The Grandsons of Fran-gois de Wendel and Company” managed an industrial empire that last year amassed sales of more than $300 million and carried on a tradition of benevolent feudalism that included schools and hospitals and cultural centers for De Wendel workers; of a heart attack; in the family chateau at Joeuf, near Nancy in the Lorraine.

Died. James Edward Murray, 84, millionaire Montana Democrat who in 26 years in the Senate sponsored such measures as national health insurance, full employment and wider Government planning; of a stroke; in Butte, Mont.