Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1973

Jan 8 Actor Michael Caine (40) weds model Shakira Baksh (25) at Candlelight Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Jan 21 Actress Jane Fonda weds activist Tom Hayden

Apr 25 Singer and actor Dean Martin marries third wife Catherine Hawn (divorced 1976)

May 26 Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney (34) weds Mila Pivnicki (19)

Jun 3 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan marries actress Jaya Bhaduri

Jun 16 American talk show host Jerry Springer (29) weds Micki Velton; divorce in 1984

Jun 30 Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark (34) weds lawyer Maureen McTeer (21)

Jul 28 "Charlie's Angels" actress Farrah Fawcett (26) weds "The Six Million Dollar Man" actor Lee Majors (34) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1982

Aug 9 American Actor Anthony Perkins (40) weds American photographer and actress Berinthia "Berry" Berenson (25) in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Aug 19 American singer and actor Kris Kristofferson (37) weds fellow singer Rita Coolidge (28); divorce in 1980

Sep 8 Canadian ice hockey superstar Bobby Orr (25) weds American speech therapist Peggy Wood at a secret ceremony in Ontario, Canada

Sep 22 Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (50) weds Jean Forsyth Clyde

Oct 20 Canadian "Star Trek" actor William Shatner (42) weds Marcy Lafferty; divorce in 1996

Oct 25 American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (46) weds actress Marsha Mason (31)

Nov 10 American Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully (45) weds Sandra Hunt, until her death in 2021

Nov 12 MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (39) weds Billye Aaron

Dec 1 NFL running back Gale Sayers (30) weds second wife, American philanthropist Ardythe Bullard, until his death in 2020

Dec 4 NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle (47) weds activist Carrie Cooke

Dec 31 MLB executive Tony La Russa (29) weds Elaine Coker

Nov 16 Russian-American cci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) divorces Gertrude Blugerman (56) after 31 years of marriage