Famous Weddings & Divorces on August 8

Famous Weddings

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.

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

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

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)

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

2009 Pop-opera group Il Divo singer David Miller weds singer and theater actress Sarah Joy Kabanuck in New York City

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

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

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