Wedding Anniversaries on August 8

Famous Weddings

  • 1502 Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

1778 Naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (34) weds Marie Anne Rosalie Delaporte

  • 1810 Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib marries Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moves to Delhi.

George Westinghouse

1867 Engineer George Westinghouse (20) weds Marguerite Erskine Walker in Brooklyn, New York

Zhou Enlai

1925 China's Premier Zhou Enlai (27) weds Deng Yingchao (21) in Guangzhou

Ben Bradlee

1942 Journalist Ben Bradlee (20) weds Jean Saltonstall

  • 1992 Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
  • 1993 California state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds American actress Barbara Williams (40); divorce in 2016
  • 1995 "Veronica's Closet" actress Kathy Najimy (38) weds actor Dan Finnerty (25)

Hakeem Olajuwon

1996 NBA Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon (33) weds Dalia Asafi (18) in Houston, Texas

  • 2009 American pop-opera "Il Divo" singer David Miller (36) weds American soprano and theater actress Sarah Joy Kabanuck (30) in New York City

Famous Divorces

Bugsy Siegel

1946 Esta Krakower divorces mobster Bugsy Siegel (40) after 17 years of marriage

Jack Nicholson

1968 Actor Jack Nicholson (31) divorces Sandra Knight (28) after 6 years of marriage

Nicole Kidman

2001 Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman divorce after 10 years of marriage