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by Dylan16807 1302 days ago
You can be pretty confident without a comprehensive database. If you're unsure about a name then don't pick that one.

And people that are dead won't be inconvenienced, so you can ignore them.

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People (and lawyers) might get annoyed if you called your bot Avici, even though he is dead and won’t personally be inconvenienced by it.
Naming something after a celebrity is a different issue entirely. It's actually a bigger problem if the celebrity has a non-regular name!