Milestones, Dec. 30, 1946

Born. To Danny Kaye (real name: David Daniel Kaminski), 33, puckish, nimble-tongued comedian, and Sylvia Fine Kaye, 33, who wrote the tongue-twisting patter songs that first made her husband famous: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Dena. Weight 5 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. Diana Denyse, Countess of Erroll, 20, who, as hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland (an honor bestowed upon Ancestor Sir Gilbert Hay by Robert Bruce in 1314 after the Battle of Bannockburn), ranks within Scotland’s borders immediately after the Royal Family; and Captain Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe, 27, special assistant to Britain’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union; in London.

Died. Eugene (“Gene”) Talmadge, 62, governor-elect of Georgia, who during three previous terms as governor won fame of a sort as the rabble-rousing apostle of “white supremacy”; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Atlanta (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Paul Langevin, 74, Nobel-Prize-winning French physicist, whose studies of sound waves gave a basis for modern methods of submarine depth sounding, onetime associate of radium discoverers Pierre & Marie Curie; in Paris.

Died. Constance Garnett, 84, pioneer and most prolific English translator of Russian literature, widow of Essayist Edward Garnett, mother of Novelist David Garnett; in Edenbridge, England. Despite failing eyesight (she had to have the Russian texts read aloud), shy, scholarly Mrs. Garnett labored for 50 years over the prodigious task of translating the works of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the best of Tolstoy, much of Gogol. Her translations are regarded as among the best in their field, were largely responsible for the role Russian literature played in the transition from Victorian letters to 20th Century realism.