Famous Weddings
- 1576 Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1840 American women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (24) weds fellow American abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (34), until his death in 1887
William Tecumseh Sherman
1850 American Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman (30) weds Eleanor Boyle Ewing in Washington, D.C., until her death in 1888
Ivan Pavlov
1881 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (32) weds Seraphima Karchevskaya, until his death in 1936
- 1884 American "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jimmie Rodgers
1917 American country singer Jimmie Rodgers (19) weds Stella Kelley; divorce in 1919
- 1929 American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings weds 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton; divorce in 1932
Elvis Presley & Priscilla Presley
1967 American 'King of Rock and Roll' Elvis Presley (32) weds American actress Priscilla Presley née Beaulieu (21) at Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; divorce in 1973
Mobutu Sese Seko
1980 Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko (49) weds second wife, Bobi Ladawa (34), until his death in 1997
Kate Jackson
1982 American "Charlie's Angels" actress Kate Jackson (33) weds second husband, American business executive David Greenwald in Beverly Hills, California; divorce in 1984
Robert Duvall
1991 American actor Robert Duvall (60) weds third wife, American dancer Sharon Brophy; divorce in 1995
- 1996 American television personality show host Kelly Ripa (26) weds film actor, and future morning show co-host, Mark Consuelos (25) in Las Vegas, Nevada
Uma Thurman
1998 American "Reality Bites" actor Ethan Hawke (27) weds American "Pulp Fiction" actress Uma Thurman (28); separate in 2003, and divorce in 2005
Lance Armstrong
1998 American cyclist Lance Armstrong (26) weds Kristin Richard; divorce in 2003
- 1999 American "As Good As It Gets" actor Greg Kinnear (35) weds British model Helen Labdon (29) at Boxgrove Priory in Chichester, West Sussex, England
- 1999 American "Dixie Chicks" singer Emily Erwin (26) weds American country music singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (34) at Lone Star State in Texas; divorce in 2008
- 2009 American Olympic swimming gold medalist Amanda Beard (27) weds photographer Sacha Brown (34) in Wakatobia, Indonesia
- 2010 American actor-producer Seth Green (36) weds actress Clare Grant (30) at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Nacasio, California
- 2016 Paralympic athlete Aimee Mullins (39) weds "Homeland" star Rupert Friend (34) in a magical hobbit-y compost shed
- 2019 English "Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner (23) and American pop singer Joe Jonas (29) are married by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas, Nevada; separate im 2023
Famous Divorces
Mick Jagger
1978 Actress and model Bianca Jagger (32) files for divorce from Rolling Stone singer Mick Jagger (34) after 7 years of marriage on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall
