Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1917

Famous Weddings

Auguste Rodin

Jan 29 Sculptor Auguste Rodin (76) weds Rose Beuret

Jimmie Rodgers

May 1 American country singer Jimmie Rodgers (19) weds Stella Kelley; divorce in 1919

Pearl S. Buck

May 13 American missionary and writer Pearl Sydenstricker (24) weds fellow American missionary and economist John Lossing Buck (26), becoming Pearl S. Buck; divorce in 1935

Walter Lippmann

May 24 Writer Walter Lippmann (27) weds Faye Albertson

Oct 21 Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)
Dec 1 American silent film actress Myrtle Gonzalez (27) weds American film actor/director Allen Watt (33) in Los Angeles, California

Jimmy Doolittle

Dec 24 Famous pilot James Doolittle (21) weds high school sweetheart Josephine E. Daniels

1916
Famous Weddings & Divorces by Year
1918