Yodel and Lead Balloon

  

The following notable person recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site stands out:

• Saleh Rusheidat (1 January 1946 – 2 January 2026)  member House of Representatives
• Shyam Bihari Lal (1 January 1966 – 2 January 2026) 60, Uttar Pradesh MLA 
• Peter-Lukas Graf (5 January 1929 – 4 January 2026) 96, Swiss flautist
• Sukumar Barua (5 January 1938 – 2 January 2026) 87, Bangladeshi poet

The first two I had included in an earlier post, and they stood out due to the fact that they died on the same day, and also celebrate the same birthday. The second two died two days apart and celebrate the same birthday.  I decided to consider that this is another inner twin prompt.  For one the dates generate a “January 1(x2), January 2(x3), __, January 4, January 5(x2)/Date Sequence pattern cluster. And I also consider that they are wanting me to go back the list of Notable persons who passed away on January 5 and January 1, to see if anything stands out. As to the latter, I came to 4 people:

• Ahn Sung-ki, (January 1, 1952 – January 5, 2026) actor (Silmido, Two Cops, Radio Star)
• Brian Doyle (12 August 1935 – 1 January 2026)  90, Canadian writer.
• Yehezkel Dror (12 August 1928 – 1 January 2026) 97 political scientist (door, drop)
• Victoria Jones (April 21, 1987– January 1, 2026) 34, actress

The first one was born January 1st and died January 5, and the next two follow the same sequence— died on same day (Jan 1) and celebrate the same birthday.  Perhaps they are all designed to connect … via cryptic elements in their names arrived at by applying various pattern cluster.  Doing so we arrive at a cryptic phrase… of sorts:  

Sale rush; am shy sham pal/lad/lag/lap/law/lay; pet as grab graft; mar bar; sung; brain do yodel; he drop door; victor ones.  

Clusters applied: “Word in Name” pattern cluster ; “Add a Letter to Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster; “Remove a Letter in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster ; “Switch Letters Around in Name Makes a Word (anagram)” pattern cluster.   

It’s hard to decipher so I focused on any of the words that are obviously related, like “law” and “bar”…, and “yodel” and “sung”. The “brain yodel” in Brian Doyle also really struck me as being a significant prompt, after all, it would take a good brain power to yodel… and “brain” is likely a cyptic way of saying “brain work required on yodel”… as in do what I do best —research, … research yodel.

On the Yodel wikipedia page it makes reference to Led Zeppelin, and after researching all the notable persons mentioned on the Yodel wiki page, only one was born on January 3rd (and so bridging the above cluster)— John Paul Jones, member of Led Zeppeline 

• John Paul Jones (born John Richard Baldwin; 3 January 1946)

Led Zeppelin

• Jimmy Page  (born 9 January 1944)
• Robert Plant (born 20 August 1948) 
• John Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980)
• John Paul Jones (born John Richard Baldwin; 3 January 1946)

One account of how the new band's name was chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that a supergroup with Page and Beck would go down like a "lead balloon", an idiom for being very unsuccessful or unpopular.^[21] The group dropped the 'a' in lead at the suggestion of Peter Grant, so that those unfamiliar with the term would not pronounce it "leed".^[22] The word "balloon" was replaced by "zeppelin", a word which, according to music journalist Keith Shadwick, brought "the perfect combination of heavy and light, combustibility and grace" to Page's mind.