Milestones: Aug. 23, 1963

Born. To Steven Clark Rockefeller, 27, divinity student son of New York’s Governor; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen Rockefeller, 25, Norwegian-born former housemaid in the Rockefeller home: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan.

Born. To John Struthers, 46, $46.50-a-week factory worker in Sydney, Australia, and Janette Struthers, 44: a twin boy and girl, their fifth set of twins; bringing their family to 14 children. Said Struthers to his children as he came back from the hospital: “Mummy’s done it again.”

Married. Robert Goulet, 29, nightclub and stage baritone (Lancelot in Camelot); and Carol Lawrence, 30, the original Maria of West Side Story; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Marshall Field Jr., 47, proprietor of a Chicago publishing empire (Sun-Times, Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia); by Katherine Woodruff Field, 35, his second wife; after 13 years of marriage, three children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno.

Died. Clifford Odets, 57, social-protest playwright during the Great Depression (Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing), later a highly paid writer of slick movie scripts . (Sweet Smell of Success); of cancer; in Los Angeles. The contrast between Odets’ early proletarian dramas and his Hollywood work inspired the celebrated jab, “Odets, where is thy sting?”

Died. The Rev. Charles Dismas Clark, 61, Roman Catholic priest who devoted his life to helping released convicts in St. Louis get jobs and go straight (he took his middle name from the pseudepigraphical name of the good thief crucified by the side of Jesus); of a heart attack; in St. Louis.

Died. Richard Barthelmess, 68, square-jawed movie idol of the ’20s and ’30s, best remembered as the country-boy hero of Tol’able David and the rescuer of distraught D. W. Griffith heroines in Broken Blossoms and Way Down East, a canny New Yorker who invested his savings well, lived out a comfortable retirement (since 1942) with a Long Island mansion and a yacht; of cancer; in Southampton, N.Y.

Died. Charles Seymour, 78, historian and teacher, known to his students as “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” who as president of Yale University from 1937 to 1950 reorganized science faculties, established an Oriental language center, defended Yale’s academic independence (“We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences”); after a long illness; in Chatham, Mass.