- His guitar was inscribed with the words, "This machine kills fascists."
- Was Bob Dylan's idol and mentor. Dylan visited him many times in the hospital in the last years of his life, and modeled his own folk-writing style after Guthrie's. The first Dylan-written song ever released was a tribute to his hero, 'Song to Woody', which appeared on his self-titled 1962 debut album.
- Father of Arlo Guthrie
- He was cremated and his ashes were scattered off Coney Island. The family scattered the ashes of Marjorie in the same place when she died.
- Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (under the category Early Influences) in 1988.
- For two years during the 1950s, the landlord of his Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn was Fred Trump, father of future US President Donald Trump.
- He and Marjorie had four children. Cathy (died aged 4 in a fire) Arlo Guthrie, Joady (named for Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Nora.
- His daughter, Nora, recently invited English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg to look through the family archives, especially all the thousands of song lyrics that Woody had left in his notebooks. Billy, together with American country band Wilco, put them to music and recorded them for the album Mermaid Avenue.
- Was featured in 1998 on a 32-cent U.S. postage stamp in the Legends of Folk Singers stamp series.
- February 22, 1954: daughter: Lorinna Lynn Guthrie, with Van Kirk.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Although he was named after Pres. Woodrow Wilson, his political views were the polar opposite of Wilson's. Wilson was anti-labor and anti-communist, while Guthrie was ardently pro-labor and favored ideas similar to what the Communist Party supported (although the Communist Party refused to admit him due to his refusal to abandon his religious faith).
- His revue, "The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie" at the Northlight Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Revue Production.
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