Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1930

Jan 14 American author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning (23) in Los Angeles, California (divorced 1942)

Jan 15 Businesswoman Estee Mentzer (23) weds businessman Joseph Lauter (later Lauder)

Jun 5 Actress Agnes Moorehead (29) weds actor Jack G. Lee (28)

Jun 21 "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (19) weds sculptor Blair Gordon Newell

Jun 23 Businessman Nelson Rockefeller (21) weds Mary Todhunter Clark

Jun 23 Diplomat Ralph Bunche (25) weds Ruth Harris

Jun 28 Film director David Lean (22) weds his first cousin Isabel Lean

Jul 14 1st Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan

Jul 21 American jazz pianist Count Basie weds Vivian Lee Winn, in Kansas City, Missouri; divorce in 1934

Aug 27 Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

Sep 4 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sep 11 Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)

Sep 29 American singer and actor Bing Crosby (27) weds American actress Dixie Lee (18)

Oct 25 Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria, weds Princess Giovanna of Savoy, daughter of King Emmanuel III, at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Assisi. Italy, until his death in 1943

Dec 6 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia