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Bob Dylan was born May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota as Robert Allen Zimmerman.

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Bob Dylan preforms in multiple bands in high school before joining a Jewish fraternity in college and preforming at a local coffeehouse and involving himself in the folk music scene. He performs under the name Bob Dylan after stumbling across poems by Dylan Thomas. He describes the name change in an 2004 interview as such, "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

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You’re born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

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In May 1960 Dylan drops out of college to pursue a career in music. He travels to New York to preform and see his idol Woodie Guthrie who was extremely sick.

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On March 19th, 1962, Bob Dylan released his debut album with Columbia Records. The album was produced by legend John H. Hammond who also signed him onto the label. He was 20 years old at the time, and showed promise though new to the industry and New York.

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His first album “Bob Dylan” was not a success and he earned the nickname “Hammond’s Folly.” He decided to change his focus to more original material, according to Hinton's Bob Dylan Complete Discography. By April 1962, he began working on “Blowin’ in the Wind.”

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Dylan’s Breakthrough song “Like a Rolling Stone” is released

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Dylan’s Breakthrough song “Like a Rolling Stone” is released

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July, 1965

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Over the course of the next three decades, Dylan continued to reinvent himself. Following a near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 1966, Dylan spent almost a year recovering in seclusion.

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Bob Dylan won his first GRAMMY for 1973 at the 15th GRAMMY Awards for Album Of The Year as a featured artist on The Concert for Bangla Desh.

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He won his first solo GRAMMY for 1979, earning Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male for "Gotta Serve Somebody."

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Beginning in the 1980s, Dylan began touring full time, sometimes with fellow legends Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. Notable albums during this period included Infidels (1983); the five-disc retrospective Biograph (1985); Knocked Out Loaded (1986); and Oh Mercy(1989), which became his best-received album in years. He recorded two albums with the all-star band the Traveling Wilburys, also featuring George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne.

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In 1989, Dylan was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Bruce Springsteen spoke at the ceremony, declaring that "Bob freed the mind the way Elvis freed the body. Today, Dylan has 5 songs in the Hall of Fame.

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Bob s Dylan won an Oscar for his song “Things Have Changed” on January 1st, 2000.

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He won his first Academy Award May 1st, 2001.

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On October 13, 2016, the legendary singer-songwriter also received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first time the honor was bestowed on a musician. He became the first American to receive the honor since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993, and was lauded by the Swedish Academy "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

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President Barack Obama awarded Dylan the Medal of Freedom in May 2012 for significantly influencing the civil rights movement