Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1918

Mar 19 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (17) weds Daisy Parker (21)

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

Jul 2 Jazz orchestra band leader Duke Ellington (19) weds high school sweetheart Edna Thompson

Jul 12 Artist Pablo Picasso (36) marries ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova (27)

Aug 18 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25)

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