Famous Weddings & Divorces on March 16

1822 Italian opera composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioachino Rossini weds 1st wife, opera singer Isabella Colbran, in Bologna

1905 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (30) weds Beatrice O'Brien

1939 Princess Fawzia of Egypt (17) marries the Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (19)

1985 Actress Maureen McCormick (28) weds Michael Cummings

1996 Sportscaster Pat Summerall (65) weds Cherilyn Burns in Florida

2002 Oscar-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli (56) weds producer David Gest (48) at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City

2006 Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss (58) weds Svetlana Erokhin in Harrisonburg, Virginia

1983 Producer Dick Wolf (36) divorces Susan Scranton after more than 13 years of marriage