Milestones: Oct. 2, 1964

Born. To Sandra Burns, 29, adopted daughter of Comedian George Burns and the late Oracle Allen, and Stephen Luckman, 29, real estate specialist for his father’s thriving architectural firm, Charles Luckman Associates: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Born. To Mary Ann Fischer, 31, mother of the first U.S. quintuplets to survive infancy; and Andrew Fischer, 39, Aberdeen, S. Dak., shipping clerk: their eleventh child, ninth daughter: in Aberdeen. Weight: 10 lbs. 7 oz.

Married. Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 22, Mamie’s niece; and 2nd Lieut. Steven James Rees, 22, serving in the Army’s ceremonial Old Guard Battalion at Fort Myer, Va.; at the post chapel.

Married. Russell Kirk, 45, articulator of U.S. conservatism, author of the 1953 bestseller, The Conservative Mind; and Annette Yvonne Courtemanche, 24, Long Island high-school teacher; both for the first time; in a low Mass at the chapel at New York’s Kennedy Airport.

Died. Fred Cole, 63, California swimsuit designer who in the 1920s broke away from the drab, all-covering “woollies” of the day with low-backed, rainbow-colored bathing suits, went on to pioneer, with curve-clinging Lastex fabric, the bare midriff and the two-piece suit, but never countenanced the bikini; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Archbishop Josef Gawlina, 71, leader of the Polish Catholic community in Rome, who was driven from Warsaw by the Communists in 1947; of a heart attack a few days after climbing the steps of St. Peter’s, though weary and infirm, to speak on Marian devotion before the Vatican Council.

Died. Dr. Alan Chesney, 76, longtime (1929-53) dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School, best known for his lifelong fight against antivivisectionists, (“a crippling obstacle to the advance of medical knowledge”), who in 1950 carried his case to Baltimore voters in a referendum, won a lopsided victory and a permanent key to the city dog pound; of complications following a stroke; in Baltimore.

Died. Clive Bell, 83, British art critic and charter member of London’s once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell’s sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London.