Milestones: Jun. 16, 1961

Born. To David Michael Mountbatten, 42, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of Britain’s royal couple and best man at their wedding, and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, his second wife, a Bermuda socialite and sometime Manhattan mannequin: their first child, a son, who ensures continuation of the Mountbatten name (only other family male: British Defense Staff Chief Earl Mountbatten); in London.

Married. Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent, 25, captain in the Royal Scots Greys, currently eighth in succession to the British throne; and Katharine Worsley, 28, onetime schoolmarm, daughter of a former Yorkshire County cricketer; in York Minster.

Died. Louis de Wohl, 58, prolific, German-born biographer of the saints (among them: St. Augustine in The Restless Flame, St. Francis Xavier in Set All Afire) and part-time London astrologer hired in 1940 by the British War Office to try to duplicate the advice Hitler was receiving from his stargazers; of heart disease; in Lucerne. Asked about his secret wartime weapon. Prime Minister Churchill once explained, “Why should Hitler have a monopoly on astrologers?”

Died. John Perona, 64, improbable arbiter of international café society, an Italian peasant’s son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo’s sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city’s most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Chester Irving Barnard, 74, civic servant and management expert who left the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. in 1948, after 21 years, to direct the Rockefeller Foundation (his 1952 successor: Dean Rusk), also served as World War II boss of U.S.O., State Department consultant on atomic policy; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Roy Barton White, 77, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad executive, a brakeman’s son who became a telegrapher at 16, the East’s youngest rail president (Jersey Central) at 43 and Western Union boss from 1933 to 1941, then took over the woebegone B. & O., after eleven years as president declared the road’s first dividend in three decades and shortly moved up to the chairmanship; of a heart attack; in Baltimore.

Died. Carl Gustav Jung, 85, last of the founding trinity of modern psychiatry: in Zurich (see MEDICINE).

Died. Karl Henry von Wiegand, 86, globe-trotting prototype of the old-fashioned foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Zurich (see PRESS).