Historical Figures Married and Divorced in 1937

Jan 2 Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner

Apr 30 General Douglas MacArthur (57) marries 2nd wife Jean Faircloth

Jun 3 Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France

Sep 3 Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

Sep 17 Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (29) weds author Catherine Atwater (24) at the Reformed Church of North Hempstead in New York

Dec 9 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) divorces first wife Faye Albertson after 20 years of marriage