Famous Weddings & Divorces on December 9

Famous Weddings

1883 Poet Rabindranath Tagore (22) weds Mrinalini Devi in an arranged marriage

1953 Entertainer Milton Berle (45) marries for the third time Ruth Cosgrove (32)

1956 NBA player Bill Russell (22) weds college sweetheart Rose Swisher; divorce in 1973

1956 Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser (26) weds Tamie Beggs (20)

1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson's daughter Lynda (23) marries US Marine Captain Charles Robb (28) in the White House

1983 Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Willy Brandt weds Brigitte Seebacher

1989 "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) weds actress Pamela Bach (26) at the Little Brown Church in Studio City, California

2005 "Bourne" actor Matt Damon (35) weds Argentine-born Luciana Barrosa (29) at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau near New York City Hall

2006 "The Office" actress Lucy Davis (33) weds actor Owain Yeoman (28) at St. Paul's Cathedral in London

2011 "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer Sinead O'Connor (45) weds Irish therapist Barry Herridge (38) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

1929 Businessman Howard Hughes divorces 1st wife Ella Rice after 4 years of marriage

1937 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) divorces first wife Faye Albertson after 20 years of marriage

1982 American actors Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce, after 10 years of marriage