John Lennon
Home to his aunt Mimi and her husband, this detached middle-class Liverpool house in the suburb of Woolton was John Lennon's home from the age of five until his adulthood. During Lennon's mother's difficult times, she sent Lennon there and often visited her son. Later, in 2002, Lennon's wife Yoko Ono bought the house when it was facing demolition. She donated it to the US National Trust for Conservation.
Bob Dylan
Robert Zimmerman, the real name of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, lived on the second floor of a two-story house in Duluth, Minnesota from birth until the age of 6. The house is now owned by a Dylan fan.
Andy Warhol
At the age of six, legendary artist Andy Warhol moved into a modest three-story yellow brick house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol lived there for 15 years, until he moved to New York City in 1949. It was in the basement of this house that he learned to use a camera.
Kurt Cobain
The Nirvana frontman lived in this four-bedroom house in Aberdeen, Washington, from 1968 to 1976. The house's storage room was also where he and Krist Novoselic rehearsed for the early days of Nirvana in the 1980s. The house still retains many of its original features, including Cobain's handwriting on the bedroom wall.
Johnny Cash
Music legend Johnny Cash grew up on a five-room farm in Dyess Colony, Mississippi, which was a federal government experiment born out of President Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1935, Cash's father was given 20 acres of land and the house, free of charge. Cash lived there until 1950, when he joined the Air Force.
Michael Jackson
In a strange coincidence, Michael Jackson's childhood home - a two-bedroom, white-framed house in Gary, Indiana - is located at 2300 Jackson Street. All nine Jackson children were raised in this small house by their grandparents, Katherine and Joe.
John F. Kennedy
On the second floor of this two-and-a-half-story home in Brookline, Massachusetts, the 35th President of the United States was born on May 29, 1917. John F. Kennedy lived here, at 83 Beals Street, for a decade, until the Kennedy family moved to New York City in the late 1920s. Today, the house has been restored to resemble the original JFK home, and is open for tours.
Nelson Mandela
At the age of nine, Nelson Mandela moved to live in a “hut” in Mqhekezweni, a village in eastern South Africa. Raised by Chief Jongintaba, the place held deep meaning for Mandela and he would often return to it in his old age.
Princess Diana
Althorp House, the Spencer family mansion, is where Princess Diana called home before moving to Buckingham Palace. Located in Northamptonshire, England, the mansion dates back to 1688. Today, it is open to the public.
Ernest Hemingway
In 1906, the Hemingway family moved to a spacious house in Oak Park. Ernest Hemingway, then 7 years old, spent most of his childhood there, before moving away after World War I. In 2012, the house was sold for $525,000, with the new owner hoping to restore the house to its “legend” and keep it as a private home instead of turning it into an apartment building.
Hans Christian Andersen
Not far from St. Knud's Church in Odense (Denmark), is where the writer of all generations of children - Hans Christian Andersen lived with his family from the age of 2 until he was 14. The small house is about 60 m2today open to visitors.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, lived here from 1844 to 1853, when he was 9 to 18. The house's most notable feature is its white picket fence, which appeared in his 1876 novel, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer. Today, the house is open to visitors.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney was born and raised on the corner of Tripp Avenue and Palmer Street just outside downtown Chicago in a modest house designed and built by his family, Flora and Elias Disney. The two-story wooden house cost only $800 to build in the 1890s.
