Milestones: Oct. 11, 1982

EXPECTING. Michèle Bennett Duvalier, 31, and Jean Claude (“Baby Doc”) Duvalier, 31, Haiti’s dictator and President for Life; their first child; in December. Early last month, Haiti’s First Lady made a secret predawn flight to Miami for an amniocentesis test, which revealed that Baby Doc’s baby is a boy, an heir apparent to the Duvalier dynasty.

BORN. To Fernando Valenzuela, 21, Los Angeles Dodgers pitching marvel, and,Linda Valenzuela-Burgos, 21, a former schoolteacher: their first child, a son; in San Pedro, Calif. Name: Fernando Jr. Weight: 7 lbs. 14 oz.

BORN. To Larry Holmes, 32, world heavyweight boxing champion who calls himself “the world’s baddest heavyweight,” and Diane Holmes, 28: their fifth child, first son; in Easton, Pa. Name: Larry Jr. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz.

DIVORCED. Cybill Shepherd, 32, comely model turned actress-singer; and David Ford, 29, maitre d’ of a Memphis nightclub; after four years of marriage; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; in Memphis. Shepherd won custody of the couple’s daughter, 3, and Ford was awarded a $15,000 divorce settlement.

DIED. Valerie Bettis, 62, mesmerizing modern dancer and dynamic, unconventional choreographer; of a heart attack; in New York City. The first modern dancer to choreograph for a major ballet company (Virginia Sampler in 1947 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of “total theater,” the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner’s novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams’ play.

DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, “aw shucks” Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: “It’s my life, all right. I’ll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie.”

DIED. Paul Kollsman, 82, German-born aeronautical engineer whose fertile imagination earned him patents for hundreds of inventions, most notably for the Kollsman altimeter, which revolutionized aviation in 1928 by using the barometric pressure to calculate with still unmatched accuracy the altitude of an aircraft, thereby enabling pilots to fly “blind”; in Los Angeles.