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Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023)
singer, aircraft pilot, autobiographer, actor, film producer, entrepreneur, recording artist, lyricist, composer
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Joss Whedon (born 1964)
film director, film producer, television director, composer, director, actor, cartoonist, television actor, animator, television producer, producer
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
Ry Cooder (born 1947)
guitarist, singer, composer, banjoist, musicologist, mandolinist, record producer
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)
mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer
Alphonse Allais (1854-1905)
poet, journalist, dramaturge, painter, composer, comedian
Giorgio Faletti (1950-2014)
composer, comedian, poet lawyer, singer, stage actor, film actor, television actor, recording artist
