Other life facts (Courtesy of Wikipedia):

-On 16 March 1905, Marconi married Beatrice O'Brien. They had three daughters (one lived shortly), and a son. They divorced in 1924.
-On 15 June 1927, Marconi married Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali . They had one daughter.
-Children's names: Degna, Gioia, Giulio(son) (all w/O'Brien marriage), and Elettra (w/Bezzi-Scail marriage).
-Marconi had a brother, Alfonso, and a stepbrother, Luigi.

-Benito Mussolini was Marconi's best man when he married his second wife in 1927.
-The Marconi Stallions, a FOOTBALL club in Australia, is named after Guglielmo Marconi.
-Villa Marconi, a retirement home located in Nepean, Ontario is named after Marconi.
-La Scuola D'Italia, a private Italian school in New York's Upper East Side, is named after Marconi.

LATER YEARS

In 1914, Marconi was made a senator in Italy. During World War I, Marconi was placed in charge of the Italian military's radio system. In 1924, he was made a marchese (marchese= Italian nobleman next in rank above a count). He joined the Italian Fascist party in 1923 (fascist=a political philosophy, movement, or regime). Marconi died in Rome in 1937 at age 63, and Italy held a state funeral for Marconi. Also, all radio stations throughout the world observed two minutes of silence.