Former Beatle, lauded solo musician and songwriter, and noted peace campaigner John Lennon is a household name but on December the 8th 1980, his life was cut short at the age of 40 as he returned to his New York apartment where he was shot four times in the back by a crazed ‘fan’ in what became one of the most famous assassinations of all time. The killer was Mark David Chapman who had, earlier that day, stood outside Lennon’s apartment and asked him to sign a copy Double Fantasy for him, an album by John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, released earlier that year. This is the photo of Lennon signing the album for his killer earlier on that fateful day.