Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Dec 10 Country music artist Garth Brooks (43) weds singer Trisha Yearwood (41) in Claremore, Oklahoma
Garth Brooks
- Dec 17 "Modern Day Drifter" country singer Dierks Bentley (30) weds Cassidy Black in Mexico
- Dec 17 Australian country singer Kasey Chambers (29) weds singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson in Avoca, New South Wales
- Dec 23 Soccer star player Kaka (23) weds Brazilian singer Caroline Celico (18) at Igreja Renascer em Cristo in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Dec 23 "Jurassic Park" actress Laura Dern (38) weds musician Ben Harper (36) in Los Angeles
- Dec 31 "One Tree Hill" actress Bethany Joy Lenz (24) weds "Enation" musician Michael Galeotti in Hillsboro, Oregon
Divorces in Music
Divorce of Interest
Dec 16 American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces singer-songwriter Nick Lachey (31) due to irreconcilable differences
Jessica Simpson
- Dec 20 Actress Renee Zellweger (36) annuls her marriage to country-music singer Kenny Chesney (37) citing fraud, after 4 months of marriage
Deaths in Music
- Dec 4 Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
- Dec 6 Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
- Dec 9 György Sándor, Hungarian pianist, dies at 93
- Dec 13 Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
- Dec 25 Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
- Dec 25 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918)
- Dec 26 Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1937)
- Dec 31 Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor, dies at 73