Milestones: Jun. 5, 1964

Born. To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 55, Governor of New York, and Margaretta Filler Murphy Rockefeller, 37, a son, their first child (his sixth, her fifth); in Manhattan. Name: Nelson Jr.

Died. Wilder Hobson, 59, onetime staff member at TIME, FORTUNE, Harper’s Bazaar and, for the last ten years, at Newsweek, author of a history of American jazz and an amateur trombonist; of gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Princeton, N.J.

Died. Ted Collins, 64, Kate Smith’s manager and business partner for 34 years, a onetime phonograph-record salesman who in 1929 heard the unknown Kate sing a few lines in a Broadway show, quit his job to team with her in a company called “Kated,” promoted the belt-’em-out singer into one of the hottest properties on radio and TV, making so much money (they grossed $27 million in their first 20 years) that he could indulge his passion for sports by dropping $1,000,000 on the unsuccessful New York Yanks football team; of a heart attack; in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Died. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, 67, British diplomat and Foreign Office expert on Germany, a High Commissioner in West Germany from 1950 to 1953, best known as the man sent hurrying to Scotland in 1941 to identify and interrogate Rudolf Hess after Hitler’s Deputy Führer flew from Berlin (crash-landing his ME-110 fighter) in a mad attempt to negotiate peace with England; of a brain tumor; in Celbridge, Ireland.

Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of “Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris.

Died. Jawaharlal Nehru, 74, Prime Minister of India since 1947; of a heart attack; in New Delhi (see THE WORLD).

Died. John Finley Williamson, 76, founder of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., whose aim was to restore to choral music the prestige it enjoyed in the days of Palestrina and Bach, over 40 years built one of the most highly respected choirs in the U.S., saw his students create carbon-copy “Westminster Choirs” in such faraway lands as Japan and India; of a heart attack; in Toledo.