Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1912

Apr 9 Detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner (22) weds Natalie Talbert

Jun 26 American future US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (24) weds Janet Pomeroy Avery (21) in Auburn, New York, until his death in 1959

Aug 1 Physicist Niels Bohr (26) weds Margrethe Norlund at a civil ceremony in Slagelse, Denmark

Aug 10 British "To the Lighthouse" author Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) at the St Pancras (London) Register Office, until her deathsuicide in 1941

Oct 30 Scouting Founder Robert Baden Powell (55) marries Olave St Clair Soames (23) at St Peter's Church in Parkstone, England

Dec 19 Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel