Fogged In

continuing from my previous post, note the following excerpts: 

• Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) 
• Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964)

On perusing the other list of cast/characters in the series, The Crown, I arrive at two who jive:

• Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986)
• Peter Wooldridge Townsend (22 November 1914 – 19 June 1995) 

And so following the leads generates a “June 17, __, 19(x4)/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster.  I included a 4th June 19 given that on this day in 2012, is this blogs birthday!!

And so bridging the June 18 gap, using the formula ... and taking into consideration the "one off" curve ball we arrive at:

• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)

Note from their wiki pages:

• Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000) 
• Lawrence Eugene Doby(December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003)

And so the cluster expands;  “June 17, 18(x2), 19(x5)/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster.  As for Doby's date of birth, December 13 is also the date of my car crash in 2000, the pivotal event that enabled me to become aware of the inner twin world for the first time. 

There are other references in popular culture to Pea Soup Fog:

• In Chapter XXXIV of Thomas Love Peacock's Melincourt (1817)
• In Chapter 3 of Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1852), 
• The London satirical journal 'Punch' (1860) Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells
• The Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes; The Sign of Four (1890) 
• Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess, 1892
• T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922 ; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 
• Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time, 1918 
• Stella Benson, This is the End
• "A Foggy Day" is a popular song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin,  introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress
• The fog plays a role in Michael Crichton's 1975 The Great Train Robbery
• In the animated television Christmas feature Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) based on the Johnny Marks song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" which was itself based on the poem of the same name written in 1939 by Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May.
• The second chapter of the book The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill 
• Sections of London Below in Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel "Neverwhere" 
• In the book Un Lun Dun (2007) by China Miéville, the London Fog takes on the role of villain: the "Smog" of UnLondon. 

Note from the wiki pages of those mentioned above:

• Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866)
• Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) 
• Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) 
• Ebenezer Landells (Newcastle 1808 – 1 October 1860 London)
• Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) 
• Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) 
• Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) 
• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchil (30 Nov 1874 – 24 Jan,1965) 
• Stella Benson (6 January 1892 – 7 December 1933)  
• George Jacob Gershwin ( September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) 
• Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 – 17 August 1983) 
• Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) 
• John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008)  
• John David Marks (November 10, 1909 – September 3, 1985) 
• Robert Lewis May (July 27, 1905 – August 10, 1976)  
• Susan Hill (born 5 February 1942)  
• Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (10 November 1960) 
• China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972)

So much can be garnered from the above... many clusters... and many names that speak "cryptic" volumes.  Robert May's and Henry Mayhew stand out given that their surname contains my first name, May... and the surname of the Prime Minister of Great Britain is May:

• Theresa Mary May (born 1 October 1956)   

Some other excerpts from the  Pea Soup Fog wiki page:

Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) (which was sometimes referred to as "Fog Intense Dispersal Operation" or "Fog, Intense Dispersal Of") was a system used for dispersing fog and pea soup fog (dense smog) from an airfield so that aircraft could land safely. The device was developed by Arthur Hartley 

• Arthur Clifford Hartley (7 January 1889 – 28 January 1960)  

The Great Smog served as the basis of an episode titled "Forog" of The Goon Show(series 5, episode 13), which aired on 21 December 1954.^[25]

Investigating the Goon Show cast, one in particular stands out

• Graham William Stark (20 January 1922 – 29 October 2013) 

His birthday, January 20, is one off from my daughters birthday of January 21 and my brothers birthday of January 19.   AND, his surname, STARK, speaks straight up volumes.  His date of death, October 29, is an addition to the "Timely" pattern-cluster given that today is October 30.  Not to mention the above date of death of: Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) .  And then note the following from my previous post:

• Antony Morgan "Tony" Madigan (4 Feb 1930 – 29 October 2017)    
• Dale Evans (Lucille Wood Smith; October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001) 

And so we have an "October 29(x3), 30, 31/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.  And so let's investigate October 29... using the formula we arrive at:

• 1999 – Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1912)

Note from their wiki pages:

• Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999) 
• Carlos Guastavino (April 5, 1912 - October 29, 2000)

Aside from their birthdays, I can't help butt see the cryptic "car loss" in the name Carlos... expecially meaningful now that the date of my car crash-- December 13th has also cropped up, and yes, the crash did result in my "car loss".  And now with their birthdays in mind, note from my previous post:

• Paul Harvey (September 10, 1882 – December 5, 1955) 
• Tom London (August 24, 1889 – December 5, 1963)  

And so we now have a "December 5(x2), January 5, __, __, April 5, May 5/ 5th Day, Month Sequence" pattern-cluster.  I included January 5 given that this is the birthday of my dog.