Milestones: Aug. 17, 1970

Born. To Tisa Farrow, 19, youngest sister of Mia Farrow, and Terry Dene, 29, producer of Homer, Tisa’s first movie: their first child, a boy; in Toronto. The two say they will marry as soon as Terry receives his divorce from Evelyn Patrick, the former Mrs. Phil Silvers.

Married. Roger Mills, 24, a white civil rights law clerk for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund; and Berta Linson, 24, a black Jackson State College student whom he met while working in the L.D.F.’s local office a year ago; he for the first time, she for the second; in a nondenominational ceremony in Jackson, Miss., the first legally sanctioned interracial marriage in the history of that state.

Married. Albert Finney, 34, British film actor (Scrooge); and Anouk Aimée, 38, French actress (A Man and a Woman); he for the second time, she for the fourth; in a civil ceremony; in London.

Died. Frances Farmer, 56, honey-haired Broadway and Hollywood beauty of the late ’30s; of cancer; in Indianapolis. Her fourth movie, Come and Get It, was a smash hit in 1936, and she conquered Broadway with equal ease a year later in Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. After that came raging fights with coworkers, bouts of alcoholism and finally, mental breakdown. Eventually, she recovered her health and went on to host a popular Indianapolis TV show.

Died. Samuel B. Mosher, 77, founder of The Signal Companies, a conglomerate with sales that topped $1.5 billion last year; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1922, armed with $4,000 and an instruction pamphlet from the Bureau of Mines, Mosher constructed a small unit to extract natural gasoline from the “wet gas” found in the Signal Hill field near Los Angeles. Within five years, he was selling 34 million gallons annually to major oil companies. He went on to help found Flying Tiger airlines, bought interests in American President Lines, the aerospace industry’s Garrett Corp., Mack Trucks and numerous other ventures in oil, TV and professional sports before retiring as chief executive in 1968.

Died. Dr. Otto Warburg, 86, member of the famed international banking clan who turned to biochemistry and twice won the Nobel Prize; of pneumonia; in West Berlin. Warburg’s first Nobel was in 1931 for his pioneering research into the nature of the respiratory enzyme; his second came in 1944 for equally basic studies of cancer. While Hitler forbade the scientist of Jewish descent from accepting the prize, he did permit Warburg to continue working because of his own dread of the disease.