Hans Mommsen RIIP: Total Momm Sense!!

The Deaths in 2015 site lists under November 5:

• Hans Mommsen, 85, German historian of Nazism and the Holocaust

Do you get the sense... I do-- the cryptic phrase in his surname "momm sen"... short form "momm sense" as opposed to "non sense" :-)).  So I checked out "sen" in the etymology dictionary, and this is what was brought up:

• senate (n.)...Latin senatus "highest council of the state in ancient Rome," literally "council of elders," from senex (genitive senis) "old man, old" (see senile) 

Note from his wiki page:

• Hans Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 5 November 2015) 

He died on his birthday, hence generating an "November 5" pattern-cluster.  On his wiki page are notable persons, some of whom stand out due to their personal info:

• Joachim Clemens Fest (8 December 1926 – 11 September 2006)
• Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 – 13 February 1973) 
• Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) 
• Odilo Lotario Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) 
• Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) 
• Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) 
• Martin Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) 
• Götz Haydar Aly (born May 3, 1947) 
• Wolfgang Justin Mommsen (November 5, 1930 – August 11, 2004) 

Perhaps you've been following this blog enough to figure out the cryptic other meaning behind the dates and the names.