Births, Deaths, and Marriages is a column about what's happening to persons of interest in Gawker society. Send us your tips about breakups, hookups, knock-ups, and everything else that completes the circle of media-life. Today's roundup: hotelier Ian Schrager, Hugh Hefner and Kendra Wilkinson, late Obama campaigner Terence Tolbert, and a rare pygmy hippo baby:

  • Births: Baby Sanjae Obama Fisher was born in Florida. It's the first Obama-named baby! [AP] A rare pygmy hippo was born in an Australian zoo. They're endangered—only about 3,000 left worldwide. Videogum has footage of the lil' cutie. [Metro UK]
  • Deaths: Terence Tolbert, a longtime politico and Nevada director of the Obama campaign (he also worked on Bloomberg's 2005 re-election campaign), died of a heart attack two days before the election. He was 44. We're sure he knew he had it in the bag. [Newsday] Kenneth Johnson, newspaperman. "As editor of The Dallas Times Herald in the 1970s and ’80s transformed it into one of the most respected newspapers in the nation while fighting a spirited but ultimately losing old-fashioned newspaper war with The Dallas Morning News." He was 74. [NYT]
  • Marriages: Ian Schrager, Inventor of the boutique hotel (um, thanks) and Studio 54 guy, will wed Tania Wahlstedt, a ballerina. His previous wife was a ballerina, too. What an amazing coincidence! [Page Six] Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 82—desperately clinging to his youth and virility with the help of Viagra—will walk his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old "model" Kendra Wilkinson, down the aisle when she marries her new boyfriend, Philadelphia Eagles footballer Hank Baskett. Makes sense: traditionally a woman's father gives her away, and Hef is certainly old enough to be her dad grandpa. [SF Chronicle]