John Lennon
09-Oct-1940
United Kingdom
Poet
Singer John Lennon met Paul McCartney in 1957 and asked McCartney to join his orchestra. They eventually established the best songwriting collaboration in the history of music. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969, and later released albums with his wife Yoko Ono, among others. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a wounded boyfriend named Mark David Chapman.