Famous Weddings
Maurice Maeterlinck
Feb 15 Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon (27) in Nice, France
- May 31 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
Albert Einstein
Jun 2 Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (40) weds his cousin Elsa Lowenthal (43)
Bess Truman & Harry Truman
Jun 28 33rd US President Harry Truman (35) weds Elizabeth Truman (34) in Independence
Aldous Huxley
Jul 10 Author Aldous Huxley (25) weds epidemiologist Maria Nys in Bellem, Belgium
Curly Lambeau
Aug 16 NFL player Curly Lambeau (21) weds high school sweetheart Marguerite Van Kessel in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Konrad Adenauer
Sep 26 German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (43) weds Auguste Zinsser in Cologne, Germany
Rudolph Valentino
Nov 6 "The Sheik" actor Rudolph Valentino (24) weds actress Jean Acker (26)
Cole Porter
Dec 19 American composer and songwriter Cole Porter (28) weds American socialite Linda Lee Thomas (36), until her death in 1954
Gloria Swanson
Dec 20 Actress Gloria Swanson (20) weds businessman Herbert K. Somborn (38)
Famous Divorces
Albert Einstein
Feb 14 German theoretical physicist Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (43) after 16 years of marriage
Gloria Swanson & Wallace Beery
Mar 1 Actress Gloria Swanson (19) divorces actor Wallace Beery (31) after 2 years of marriage
Jack Dempsey
Apr 2 American world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey (23) divorces Maxine Gates after 2 years of marriage
