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Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
poet, street artist, musician, pianist, film actor, record producer, singer, lyricist, drawer
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
politician, comedian, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, professor, essayist, autobiographer, singer, television actor, stage actor, journalist, human rights activist
Carlos Montemayor (1947-2010)
linguist, translator, poet, literary critic, opera singer
Garrison Keillor (born 1942)
radio personality, voice actor, comedian, television producer, humorist, singer
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
John Lennon (1940-1980)
record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist
Charles Nicholl (born 1950)
journalist, historian, biographer, singer
