John Lennon was born in Liverpool on  October 9th 1940. Lennon grew up with his aunt, Mimi and uncle George in a house called Mendips. His parents, Julia and Fred, separated before he was two. When Lennon was 17 his mother was killed by a bus. On November 9th 1966, John Lennon went to an exhibition at the Indica Gallery in Mayfair, London, and he met Yoko Ono. Lennon soon separated from his wife, Cynthia. They were divorced that November. On March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married in Gibraltar. On December 8th, 1980, when Lennon returned with Ono to their Dakota apartment on New York City's Upper West Side, he was shot seven times by Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old drifter.