BORN. To MELANIE GRIFFITH, 39, and ANTONIO BANDERAS, 36 Spanish heartthrob and her husband of 4 1/2 months; a daughter, Stella del Carmen; in Marbella, Spain. She is Banderas' first child and Griffith's third.

RELEASED. BARRY GOLDWATER, 87, conservative icon and former Arizona Senator; from a Phoenix hospital following treatment for a minor stroke.

RULED INCOMPETENT. JOHN E. DU PONT, 57, eccentric millionaire and chemical heir; to stand trial in the slaying of Olympic wrestler David Shultz; in Media, Pennsylvania.

ARRESTED. ROBERT KIM, 56, civilian computer analyst for the U.S. Navy; on charges of passing classified information to South Korea; in Alexandria, Virginia. A South Korean native who became a U.S. citizen in 1974, Kim was observed making copies of top-secret documents, many pertaining to North Korea, which he then allegedly sent to a South Korean captain. If convicted, Kim faces up to 10 years in jail.

INJURED. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, U.S. supercomputing pioneer who blazed a new age in calculation by developing the first lightning-fast computers; from head injuries and a broken neck sustained in a highway crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. By week's end, after undergoing brain surgery, Cray remained in critical condition. His newest company, founded last August, will undoubtedly suffer from his absence.

DIED. NICU CEAUSESCU, 45, playboy son of executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu; following surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by liver disease; in Vienna.

EXECUTED. NAJIBULLAH, 49, former Soviet-backed President of Afghanistan who had spent more than four years in refuge at a U.N. compound; in Kabul. Najibullah, a ruthless security chief who ruled from 1986 until 1992, was found hanged after the Taliban rebels captured Kabul. Afghanistan will now be ruled by strict Islamic law.

DIED. BOB DENT, 66, cancer patient; by lethal injection at the hand of Dr. Philip Nitschke; in the world's first legal mercy killing; in Darwin, Australia.

DIED. DOROTHY LAMOUR, 81, actress who took to the road--sometimes sporting only her signature sarong--with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope; in Los Angeles. Though she starred in more than 50 movies, Lamour won over audiences--particularly G.I.s during World War II--with the seven road films she made with Crosby and Hope, surviving the jungle, a malevolent aunt and the wisecracking duo at her side who vied relentlessly for her affections.

DIED. PAUL ERDOS, 83, Hungarian-born mathematics pioneer who ranks as one of the century's great geniuses and whose eccentricities and devotion to his discipline endeared him to colleagues; in Warsaw. Considered the founder of discrete mathematics, upon which computer science is based, Erdos eschewed material trappings for the life of an intellectual nomad; he had more than 1,500 publications to his name, but no home, possessions or job. Burdened only by a half-empty suitcase, he shuttled between academic conferences, lodging with mathematicians eager to provide creature comforts--in return, Erdos often devised complex mind teasers to challenge his hosts.

DIED. PAVEL SUDOPLATOV, 89, Stalin's spymaster who claimed he stole atom-bomb secrets from the U.S. and plotted the death of Leon Trotsky; in Moscow.

DIED. SABINA ZLATIN, 89, Polish-born nurse who sequestered Jewish children at an isolated farmhouse in Izieu, France, during World War II; in Paris. Zlatin was away on the April morning in 1944 when Gestapo soldiers, tipped off by a neighbor, herded all 44 children and five others, including Zlatin's husband, into their trucks. Every child perished, most in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. At 80, Zlatin testified at the trial of Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo commander who was convicted of ordering the raid.

DIED. HIROSHI FUJIMOTO, 62, Japanese cartoonist who created Doraemon, the atomic-powered cat whose magical feats enthralled his countrymen; of liver failure; in Tokyo. Living in adjoining residences, Fujimoto and his childhood buddy Motoo Abiko--who shared the pseudonym Fujio Fujiko--penned the weekly Doraemon comics, which sold an estimated 130 million copies worldwide. Abiko mourned his partner's death, saying, "There were still so many things he wanted to draw."