Pete Best was born Randolph Peter Best on this day in Madras, India. (more...)
Linda Eastman is born
Linda Louise Eastman, the future first wife of Paul McCartney, was born in New York City on this day. (more...)
Jim McCartney marries Mary Mohin
Fourteen months before the birth of their eldest son Paul, James McCartney married Mary Mohin in Liverpool, England. (more...)
John Lennon is born
John Winston Lennon was born on 9 October 1940 in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred "Freddie" Lennon. (more...)
Ringo Starr is born
Ringo Starr was born Richard Starkey on 7 July 1940, at 9 Madryn Street in the Dingle area of Liverpool. (more...)
Stuart Sutcliffe is born
The Beatles' future bassist Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe was born at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was incorporated into the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. (more...)
Julia Stanley marries Alfred Lennon
Julia Stanley had first met Alf Lennon in 1928. Although her family disapproved of the sharp-talking sailor, they courted throughout the 1930s and finally married on 3 December 1938. (more...)
Brian Epstein is born
The man who became The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was born on this day. (more...)
Yoko Ono is born
On this day Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother was Isoko Ono, the granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and her father was Eisuke Ono, a descendant of an Emperor of Japan. (more...)
George Martin is born
George Martin, the man who played a vital role in shaping The Beatles' recorded music, was born in Holloway, London, on 3 January 1926. (more...)

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