Famous Weddings & Divorces on May 6

Famous Weddings

1476 Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg and Duke of Burgundy Charles the bold arrange the marriage of their children

George Eliot

1880 British novelist Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (60) weds Scottish banker John Cross (40) at George's, London

Stan Laurel

1946 Comedian Stan Laurel (55) marries for the 5th time actress Ida Kitaeva (47)

Jayne Mansfield

1950 American student, and aspiring actress, Vera Jayne (Palmer) Peers (later known as Jayne Mansfield) (17) weds American student Paul Mansfield (20), in Fort Worth, Texas; divorce in 1958

Elizabeth Taylor

1950 English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (18) marries for the 1st time to American hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (23); divorce in 1951

1960 English Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (later Lord Snowdon) at Westminster Abbey
1965 Britis singer Mariane Faithfull weds British artist John Dunbar in Cambridge, England with Peter Asher as the best man; divorce in 1966

Sean Connery

1975 Actor Sean Connery (44) weds Micheline Roquebrune in Casablanca

Yun Fat Chow

1987 Actor Yun Fat Chow (31) weds Jasmine Tan

1997 "The X-Files" actor David Duchovny (36) weds actress Tea Leoni (31) in the garden of the Grace Church School

Noah Wyle

2000 Actor Noah Wyle (28) weds makeup artist Tracy Warbin

Billie Piper

2001 Actress-singer Billie Piper (18) weds media mogul Chris Evans (35) at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas

2006 "Coronation Street" actress Julia Haworth (26) weds Jon Wormald at St. Stephen's CE Church in Burnley, Lancashire
2006 "Scooter" techno rocker lead singer H.P. Baxxter (40) weds model Simone Mustert at Tremsbuttel Castle near Hamburg
2006 Duchess of Cornwall's daughter Laura Parker-Bowles (28) weds former Calvin Klein model Harry Lopes (28) at Church of Saint Cyriac in Lacock, Wiltshire

Brock Lesnar

2006 Former WWF Women's Champion Sable (38) weds IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar (28) in Medina, Minnesota

2006 Race car driver "Champ Car World Series" two time winner Sebastien Bourdais (27) weds Claire Bagot at Cathedral Saint-Julien in Le Mans, France
2007 "The Fast and the Furious" actress Jordana Brewster (27) weds movie producer Andrew Form (38) in Bahamas

Amy Lee

2007 Evanescence singer Amy Lee (25) weds Josh Hartzler (29) in Little Rock, Arkansas

2016 Actress Kaitlin Doubleday (31) weds DJ Devin Lucien in an outdoor ceremony in Big Sur, California
2017 Country music singer Josh Gracin (36) weds partner Katie Weir in Nashville, Tennessee
2017 Olympic diver Tom Daley (23) weds Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black at Bovey Castle in Devon, England

Famous Divorces

Maggie Smith

1974 Actress Maggie Smith (39) divorces actor Robert Stephens (42) after 6 years of marriage

2006 "Dallas" actress Victoria Principal (56) divorces plastic surgeon Harry Glassman (63) due to irreconcilable differences after nearly 21 years of marriage