Wedding Anniversaries on September 5

Famous Weddings

  • 1725 French King Louis XV (15) marries Polish princess Marie Leszczyńska (22)

Evel Knievel

1959 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel (20) weds Linda Joan Bork; divorce in 1997

Ken Follett

1968 Welsh college student and future novelist Ken Follett (19) weds fellow student Mary Emma Ruth Elson; divorce in 1985

Dick Wolf

1970 American advertising copywriter and future film and television producer Dick Wolf (23) weds Susan Scranton; divorce in 1983

Steven Seagal

1987 American martial artist, actor, and film maker Steven Seagal (36) weds English actress Kelly LeBrock (27) in Beverly Hills, California; divorce in 1996

John Travolta

1991 American "Saturday Night Fever" actor John Travolta (37) weds American actress Kelly Preston (28) at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, France, until her death in 2020

John Mellencamp

1992 American "Jack and Diane" singer-songwriter John Mellencamp (40) weds third wife, American model Elaine Irwin (23) near Seymour, Indiana; divorce 2011

Andrew Dice Clay

1992 American comic Andrew "Dice" Clay (34) weds second wife, long time partner Kathleen "Trini" Monica; divorce in 2002

  • 1993 Canadian "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" actress and film maker Nia Vardalos (30) weds American "Felicity" actor Ian Gomez (28); divorce in 2018
  • 1993 Canadian television "Robocop" Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30)

Ralph Fiennes

1993 English "Schindler's List" actor Ralph Fiennes (33) weds English actress Alex Kingston (30); divorce in 1997

Larry King

1997 American TV and radio host Larry King (64) weds (for 7th, and final time) American singer Shawn Southwick (38) in a hospital room in Los Angeles, California; he dies during divorce proceedings in 2021

  • 2015 American "Traffic" actress Erika Christensen (33) weds American cyclist Cole Maness (33) in Palm Springs, California
  • 2015 English "Call the Midwife" actress Jessica Raine (33) weds English actor Tom Goodman-Hill in London, England (his second marriage)

Famous Divorces

Michael Crichton

1980 American lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces American best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage