Milestones, Feb. 12, 1979

• Share

BORN. To Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 45, Soviet poet, and Jan Butler, 26, her husband's assistant and translator: their first child; in Bournemouth, England. Name: Alexander. Yevtushenko has no natural children from his two previous marriages, though he has one adopted son.

MARRIED. Joseph P. Kennedy II, 26, eldest son of Ethel Kennedy and the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy; and Sheila Brewster Rauch, 29, daughter of the chairman of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society; both for the first time; in Gladwyne, Pa.

DIVORCED. Mia Farrow, 33, pixyish actress (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby);and Andre Previn, 49, composer, conductor and currently music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; after eight years of marriage, six children (three adopted); in Santo Domingo.

DIED. John Simon Ritchie, 21, English punk-rock musician better known as Sid Vicious of the notorious, now disbanded Sex Pistols group; of a heroin overdose, one day after being released on bail from prison, where he was awaiting trial for the October murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, 20; in Manhattan.

DIED. Victoria Ocampo, 88, Argentina's "Queen of Letters" for nearly half a century; in Buenos Aires. Educated in Europe, Ocampo in 1931 founded Sur, an avant-garde Spanish literary magazine that introduced to her countrymen such established foreign authors as Shaw, Faulkner, Sartre and Camus as well as

South American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriela Mistral. Jailed briefly in 1953 for speaking out against the Perón regime, Essayist-Translator Ocampo continued to edit and finance the magazine throughout her 80s.

DIED. Malcolm Muir, 93, founder of Business Week and longtime executive of Newsweek; in Manhattan. As president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Muir in 1929 helped create Business Week, and in 1937 joined News-Week as its president. He changed the four-year-old magazine's name to Newsweek, emphasized more interpretative stories, introduced signed columns and international editions. Muir was named honorary chairman of the board when the Washington Post Co. bought the magazine in 1961.