Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1918

Mar 19 American jazz musician Louis Armstrong (17) weds Daisy Parker (21); divorce in 1923

Apr 12 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill marries second wife novelist Agnes Boulton

Jul 2 American jazz orchestra bandleader Duke Ellington (19) weds high school sweetheart Edna Thompson in Washington, D.C.

Jul 12 Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (36) weds Russian ballet dancer and muse Olga Khokhlova (27), until her death in 1955

Aug 18 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds American socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25) in New York City, until his death in 1921

Sep 17 Abbott and Costello straight man Bud Abbott (22) weds Betty Smith

Oct 23 Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)

Dec 17 Philippine Senator (and later 2nd President) Manuel L. Quezon (40) weds first cousin Aurora Aragon (30) in Hong Kong

Dec 30 Gangster Al Capone (19) marries Mae Josephine Coughlin, mother of his child