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(1906 -
30 September 1952) his death 5 children
1. William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (born 13 August 1907, died 7 March 1966)
2. Hon Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor (born 22 March 1909, died 2 March 1975)
3. Hon Francis David Langhorne Astor (born 5 March 1912, died 6 December 2001)
4. Hon Michael Langhorne Astor (born 10 April 1916, died 1980)
5. Major Hon Sir John Jacob "Jakie" Astor VII (born 29 August 1918, died 10 September 2000)
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In 1905, while a passenger on an Atlantic voyage returning to Britain, Astor met Nancy Langhorne Shaw, a divorced woman with a young son (Robert Gould Shaw III). Coincidentally, both he and Mrs. Shaw shared the same birthdate, May 19, 1879, and both were American.[3] After a rapid courtship, the two married in May 1906. As a wedding gift, Waldorf's father gave him and his bride the family estate at Cliveden, which Nancy redecorated and modernized with the installation of electricity. Theirs proved a close marriage, and they had five children:
