Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1961

Famous Weddings

Jan 28 NFL coach Mike Ditka (21) weds Marge Dougherty

Mar 13 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

Mar 17 Actor Christopher Lee (38) weds actress Gitte Lee (25)

Mar 25 Playwright Samuel Beckett (54) weds Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil on a secret civil ceremony in England

Apr 1 American televangelist Jim Bakker (21) marries Christian singer Tammy Faye (19)

Apr 30 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR

May 25 King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
Jun 8 English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley

Jun 26 NFL Middle Linebacker Ray Nitschke (24) weds Jackie Forchette

Jul 1 Business magnate Martha Stewart (19) weds Andrew Stewart

Sep 10 Nigerian novelist, critic and academic Chinua Achebe ("Things Fall Apart") marries Christie Okoli

Sep 10 Baseball player Ted Williams marries model Lee Howard (divorced 1967)

Oct 14 Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O'Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles) marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21)

Oct 14 Author Anne Rice (20) weds poet/artist Stan Rice (18) in Denton, Texas

Oct 14 Author Upton Sinclair (83) weds Mary Elizabeth Willis

Nov 25 Racing car driver Mario Andretti (21) weds high school sweetheart Dee Ann Hoch (19)

Dec 23 Actor Martin Sheen (21) weds Janet Templeton