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Tupac Shakur154

rapper and actor 1971–1996

Barack Obama1158

44th President of the United States of America 1961

William Shakespeare699

English playwright and poet 1564–1616

George Orwell473

English author and journalist 1903–1950

Oscar Wilde812

Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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