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

Apr 15 American actor-singer Mandy Patinkin (27) weds American actress and writer Kathryn Grody (33)

May 1 Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko (49) weds second wife, Bobi Ladawa (34), until his death in 1997

May 17 Navy Liaison and future politician John McCain (43) weds second wife American teacher Cindy Lou Hensley (25)

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

Jun 7 American actor Mel Gibson (24) weds Australian nurse Robyn Moore (24) in Forestville, New South Wales

Jun 24 American dancer-actor-singer Fred Astaire (81) weds second wife American horse jockey Robyn Smith (36) at his home in Beverly Hills, California, until his death in 1987

Jul 5 American actress Raquel Welch (39) weds French-American television documentary producer André Weinfeld; divorce 1990

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 (née 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 American Baptist minister Al Sharpton (26) weds American back-up singer (to James Brown) Kathy Jordan; separate in 2004

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)

Dec 27 Irish actor Pierce Brosnan (27) weds Australian actress Cassandra Harris (32); his first, her third - until her death in 1991

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 American lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces American 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