Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1980

Jan 14 Actor Samuel L. Jackson (31) weds sports channel producer LaTanya Richardson (30)

Mar 29 77th Prime Minister of UK Tony Blair (26) weds barrister and lecturer Cherie Booth

May 1 Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko (49) weds Bobi Ladawa

May 17 Navy Liaison and future politician John McCain marries second wife teacher Cindy Lou Hensley

May 27 President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier (28) weds Michele Bennett in Haiti

Jun 7 Actor Mel Gibson (24) weds Robyn Moore (24) in Forestville, New South Wales

Jul 5 Actress Raquel Welch (39) weds producer André Weinfeld

Jul 11 Actor Michael Biehn (23) weds actress Carlene Olson (25)

Jul 12 US Senator Elizabeth Warren (31) weds law professor Bruce Mann

Jul 16 Five-time Grammy Award singer Donna Summer (31) weds award-winning arranger Bruce Sudano (31) in Los Angeles, California

Jul 24 Tennis star Björn Borg (24) weds tennis player Mariana Simionescu (23) in Bucharest, Romania

Aug 13 Actor James Woods (33) weds costume designer Kathryn Morrison

Sep 6 81st Prime Minister of UK Theresa May nee Brasier (23) weds investment banker Philip May at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Oct 12 Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) weds businesswoman Lisa Gottsegen (26) in Roxbury, Connecticut

Oct 15 Actor Rod Taylor (50) weds Carol Kikumura

Oct 31 Baptist minister Al Sharpton (26) weds back up singer Kathy Jordan

Nov 11 Novelist Norman Mailer (57) weds Norris Church (31) in Brooklyn, New York

Nov 27 British playwright Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)

Nov 30 Comedian Jay Leno marries Mavis Nicholson

Dec 22 Actor Martin Short (30) weds comic actress Nancy Dolman (29)

Feb 8 Model Angie Bowie (30) divorces British singer David Bowie (33) after just under 10 years of marriage

Jul 31 Karolyn Englehardt divorces baseball manager Pete Rose (39) after 16 years of marriage

Sep 5 Lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage

Oct 6 Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage