John Lennon:  

Birth name	John Winston Lennon1
Born	9 October 1940 Liverpool, England, UK
Died	8 December 1980 (aged 40) New York City, New York, US

"When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I sent to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down "happy."  They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."