Historical Figures Who Married and Divorced in 1929

Weddings in History

Jan 28 Mobster Bugsy Siegel (23) weds childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower

Jan 30 Mitford sister Diana Mitford (18) marries Irish peer Bryan Walter Guinness (23) in the British society wedding of the year
May 1 American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton

May 27 Aviator Charles Lindbergh (27) weds author Anne Morrow (22) in Englewood, New Jersey

Jun 20 Author William Faulkner (31) weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church outside Oxford, Mississippi

Aug 21 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)

Oct 12 US military leader George Marshall (48) weds Katherine Tupper

Oct 21 Bank robber Willie Sutton (28) weds Louise Leudemann

Nov 13 American writer E. B. White (30) weds literary editor Katharine Angell (37)

Dec 7 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France

Jul 3 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

Dec 9 Businessman Howard Hughes divorces 1st wife Ella Rice after 4 years of marriage