Famous Wedding Anniversaries on August 4

Famous Weddings

Paul Revere

1757 American revolution patriot Paul Revere (22) weds Sarah Orne in Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1782 Musician Wolfang Amadeus Mozart (26) weds Constanze Weber in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria

Herman Melville

1847 Author of Moby-Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Stonewall Jackson

1853 Confederate general Thomas Jackson (29) weds Elinor Junkin in Lexington

John Maynard Keynes

1925 British economist John Maynard Keynes (42) weds Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova (33)

Marshall McLuhan

1939 Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan (28) weds teacher and aspiring actress Corinne Lewis (27)

John Coltrane

1964 Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (35) weds jazz harpist and pianist Alice Macleod

Jorge Luis Borges

1967 Writer Jorge Luis Borges (67) weds old friend Elsa Astete Millán

1970 "The Beach Boys" drummer Dennis Wilson (25) weds Barbara Charren (24)

The Notorious B.I.G.

1994 American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (22) weds singer Faith Evans

2001 "The Young and the Restless" actor Joshua Morrow (27) weds Tobe Keeney

Pierce Brosnan

2001 Irish "James Bond" actor Pierce Brosnan (49) weds TV host and journalist Keely Shaye Smith (37) at the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland