Leonard Cohen RIIP: Then We Take Berlin (part II)

Continuing...

I begin now with investigating Sakai's wiki page, collecting relevant birt/death dates from the wiki pages of notable persons mentioned.  First, note this excerpt that stands out:

On the night of 16 May, Sakai and his colleagues, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa and Toshio Ota, were listening to a broadcast of an Australian radio program, when Nishizawa recognized the eerie "Danse Macabre" of Camille Saint-Saëns. Inspired by this, Nishizawa came up with the idea of doing demonstration loops over the enemy airfield. At the end of an attack on Port Moresby that involved 18 Zeros,^[10] the trio performed three tight loops in close formation over the allied air base 

May 16 is Rob MacGregors birthday... a date that just keeps cropping up.  AND also standing out is the 18 "Zero's"... which brings us once again to my recent Nov 6 post,  Rob's Big So W-Hatt (Wellington Part 73), that involves a heated conversation I had with Rob:

And you mention "zero sense"...now here's a Zero or 2 for you: "Mr. Zero", is the name of a song by Keith Relf of the Yard Birds...and then there's "Mr. Zero" the NHL hockey goalie. Shall we check out their zero/random dates: 

-William Keith Relf (22 March 1943 – 14 May 1976)-Francis Charles "Mr. Zero" Brimsek (September 26, 1915 – November 11, 1998) ...

So note the last date...today is 11/11... the anniversary of Mr. Zero's (Brimsek) death!!! And do note the "brim" in his name-- a cryptic communication.  So we go back now to the two other pilots mentioned in the above excerpt, note from their wiki pages:

Toshio Ōta (20 March 1919 – 21 October 1942)
 Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (January 27, 1920 – October 26, 1944)

Two more Octobers.  Expanding on a cluster from my previous post, we now have a:

•  "October 17, 18(x2),19(x2), __, 21_,_,_,25,26/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.

I included an Oct 25 due to the fact that three of my life-partners family were born on Oct 25.
Continuing to investigate those mentioned on Sakai's wiki page:

• James "Pug" Southerland II (October 28, 1911 – October 12, 1949
• Junichi Sasai (February 13, 1918 – August 26, 1942)
• rEdward Henry “Butch” O’Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) 
• John Smith "Jimmy" Thach (April 19, 1905 – April 15, 1981)

we now have an :

 "October ...12,_,_,_,_,17, 18(x2),19(x2), __, 21_,_,_,25,26, __, 28/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.

So one down and 2 to go:

• John Bartram (March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777) 
• George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999)