Famous Wedding Anniversaries on August 5

Famous Weddings

Leopold II

1764 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (17) weds queen Maria Luisa of Spain (18) in Innsbruck, Austria

Arthur Conan Doyle

1885 Author Arthur Conan Doyle (26) weds Louisa Hawkins

John Barrymore

1920 Actor John Barrymore (38) marries second wife author and actress Blanche Oelrichs (29) (divorced 1928)

Shirley Jones

1956 American actress-singer Shirley Jones (22) weds film and stage actor-singer Jack Cassidy (29); divorce in 1975

Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft

1964 American screenwriter and future film maker Mel Brooks (38) weds American actress Anne Bancroft (32) at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau; second marriage for both, until her death in 2005

Donna Summer

1971 American future five-time Grammy Award singer Donna Summer [née Gaines] (22) weds German actor Helmuth Sommer; divorce in 1976

Patty Duke & John Astin

1972 American "The Addams Family" actor John Astin (42) weds American actress Patty Duke (25); divorce 1985

1975 American "Aerosmith" guitarist Joe Perry (25) weds Elissa Jerret; divorce in 1982
1977 Actress Julie Newmar (43) weds lawyer J. Holt Smith

Steve Carell

1995 Comedian Steve Carell marries fellow comedian Nancy Walls

2005 Bavaria's Prince Leopold's son Prince Manuel von Bayern (31) weds Prince Ludwig-Ferdinand's daughter Princess Anna of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in Sweden