The Boat

The Deaths in 2016 site lists under December 25:

• Valery Khalilov, 64, Russian military band conductor, plane crash.

• Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov (January 30, 1952 – December 25, 2016)  

• On 25 December 2016, a Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 (NATO reporting name "Careless") crashed during a flight from Sochi International Airport, Russia to Khmeimim, Syria. All 92 people on board were killed.
• The flight was transporting 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble including its director, Valery Khalilov. 

On the Alexandrov wiki page are a number of notable persons, this is their info:

• Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov ( singer, born 18 September 1933) 
• Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (13 April [O.S. 1 April] 1883 – 8 July 1946)
• Boris Alexandrov (August 4, 1905  – June 17, 1994 ) 
• Mikhail Frunze (2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1885 – 31 October 1925)
• Boris Mokrousov (27 February 1909 — 27 March 1968)
• Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (25 April [O.S. 12 April] 1907^a– 2 December 1979)
• Matvei Blanter (10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1903 – 27 September 1990)
• Anatoly  Maltsev  (27 November N.S./14 November O.S. 1909 - 7 June 1967) 
• Viktor Georgiyevich Fyodorov (11 November 1885 - 4 March 1922) 
• Victor Nikitin (died January 12, 2011)
• George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) 
• Aki Olavi Kaurismäki ( born 4 April 1957) 
• Steve Barakatt (born May 17, 1973
• Jean-Jacques Goldman ( born 11 October 1951)
• David Walter Foster, (born November 1, 1949) 
• Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev 11 September 1926 – 21/22 February 1994)  
•  Mark Osipovich Reizen  3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1895 – November 25, 1992)
• Georgi Vinogradov  (16 November [O.S. 3 November] 1908 – 11 November 1980)
• Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) 
• Konstantin Feodorovich Dankevich ( (December 26, 1905 - February 26, 1984)  
• Lev Konstantinovich Knipper  (3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1898  – 30 July 1974
• Pavlo Pavlovych Virsky(February 25, 1905– July 5,1975) 
• Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass  (1894  – June 15, 1939

• Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827)
• Johann Sebastian Bach^[a] (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (25 April/7 May 1840 – 25 October/6 November 1893)
• Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881)

Note from the ensemble's wiki page: 

• The ensemble under the direction of Boris Alexandrov can be heard singing It's a Long Way to Tipperary in the 1981 film Das Boot.

John "Jack" Judge (3 December 1872 – 25 July 1938) song writer

Das Boot (German meaning "The Boat") 

Release dates	17 September 1981

The translation of boat is "boot"... says a lot!!
Info on Cast/Crew and real life characters: 

Martin May (21 April 1961)

Hans Heinrich Hass (12 October 1922 - 21 January 2009)
Jost Vacano, BVK (born 15 March 1934)Klaus Wennemann (18 December 1940 – 7 January 2000)Lothar-Günther Buchheim (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007)Klaus Doldinger (born 12 May 1936)Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer (born 12 April 1956)
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (11 December 1911 – 18 April 1986)Hans Peter Dengel (28 Nov 1916 - 2 July 1944)Hubertus Bengsch (born 10 July 1952 in Berlin)Martin Semmelrogge (born 8 December 1955 Bernd Tauber (born 7 May 1950Erwin Alois Robert Leder (born 30 July 1951Heinz Hoenig (born 24 September 1951)Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (born 7 January 1956)  Jan Fedder (born 14 January 1955 Ralf Richter (born August 17, 1957Oliver Stritzel (born 9 March 1957)Konrad Becker (born January 9, 1959 inOtto Sander (30 June 1941 – 12 September 2013)Günter Lamprecht (born 21 January 1930)Sky du Mont (born Cayetano Neven du Mont; 20 May 1947)  

Werner Herrmann (born January 14, 1920)

Martin May stands out... there is so much communicate not just by his name, butt his birthday -- the 111th day of the year!!!  Martin is named after Mars the god of war and May is my name, butt it is synonymous with our outer twin world.

This is just the beginning of this investigation... we still have the song It's a Long Way to Tipperary ... and the Irish place Tipperary to investigate.