Birth place: Tokyo, Japan
Birth name: Ono Yōko (in Japanese)
Father: Yeisuke Ono, bank executive (also spelled Eisuke)
Mother: Isoko (Yasuda) Ono
Marriages: John Lennon (March 20, 1969-December 8, 1980, his death); Anthony Cox (1962-1969, divorced); Ichiyanagi Toshi (1956-1962, divorced)
Children: with John Lennon: Sean Lennon, October 9, 1975; with Anthony Cox: Kyoko Cox, 1963
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2001 – Releases “Blueprint for a Sunrise.”
2002 – Founds the LennonOno Grant for Peace.
October 19, 2010 – Ono tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles because of racism and sexism.
2012 – In an interview with journalist David Frost, former Beatle Paul McCartney claims that Ono didn’t break up the band. “I don’t think you can blame her for anything,” he says, stating that Lennon was “definitely going to leave.”
August 2012 – Ono and son, Sean, found Artists Against Fracking, which protests fracking of natural gas and oil.
September 17, 2013 – Releases “Take Me to the Land of Hell” with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.
