John Lennon

Born in Liverpool on 9 October 1940, John Lennon was raised with his aunt but still got to see his mother when she visited him until she was knocked down by an off duty policeman in 1958. Years later when he was a member of the iconic band, the Beatles, John sang a song called Julia in his mother's memory.
The Beatles were very popular in the 1960s as was the anti-Vietnam war movement. John Lennon did not like war so he decided with his second and most famous Japanese wife Yoko Ono that they would go to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and protest in a hotel by staying in bed for 2 weeks. While they were there, they invited journalists to come into their hotel room and tell them about peace and love and the many ways to protest peacefully. The Lennons also fought for peace through song like John's song "Give peace a Chance". The song was sung by protesters during a protest in Washington in 1969.

Sadly, a reckless fan of John named Mark David Chapman who didn't like a joke that John made that connected the Beatles to Christianity shot the 40-year-old John Lennon on 8 December 1980. When John was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West (then called the Roosevelt Hospital), the song "All my Loving" by the Beatles played over the hospital speakers. Despite his untimely death, John Lennon lives on and there is a memorial in New York's Central Park dedicated to him. As long as people continue to listen to his music like his song "Imagine" and realise that we to give peace a chance, he will never be forgotten