Mike Winters, Fred Winters RIIP (Jan 31): Winters White Field

So today two notable individuals who are listed on the Deaths in 2014 site under January 19, also same the same birthday-- January 31.  This reminds me of yesterday's post when August 24th had cropped up under 2 separate circumstances relating to 2 other notable deaths.  So note the following the stood out from the info page on each date and under the Notable Deaths section:

• 2013 – Mike Winters, English comedian and actor (b. 1926) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_24

• 2013 – Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (b. 1938) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_31

Note how their surnames jive, both are additions to the "Winter/Big Snow/Glacier/White..." pattern-cluster that has cropped up a number of times including very recent posts, note for instance my earlier post today re John McGinty RIIP: "Snow" Literally Speaking.

Note this excerpt from  Fred Whitfield's wiki page:

Fred Dwight Whitfield (January 7, 1938 - January 31, 2013) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. He played from 1962 to 1970, primarily for the Cleveland Indians and also for with the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds andMontreal Expos.^[2] 

If you venture to my recent January 17 post, Jerome K. Jerome: A Fire Bird House , you'll discover that Cardinals (fire bird) crops up twice... and "Red" as well.  So the above is an addition to the "Cardinal/Fire bird..." and the "Red" pattern-clusters.

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