Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1906

Famous Weddings

Igor Stravinsky

Jan 23 Composer Igor Stravinsky (23) weds Yekaterina Nosenko

  • Feb 17 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House

D. W. Griffith

Mar 14 Film director D. W. Griffith (31) weds Linda Arvidson (21) at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts

James F. Byrnes

May 2 US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes marries Maude Busch

Nancy Astor

May 3 American-English businessman Waldorf Astor (26) weds fellow American-English socialite Nancy Langhorne Shaw (26) at All Souls Church in London, England, until his death in 1952

Joseph Stalin

Jul 28 Future dictator of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (27) weds Ekaterina Svanidze (21) at St. David's Church in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia)