Ding Đồng

The Deaths in 2017 site lists under December 22-26:

• Don Hahnfeldt (April 29, 1944 – December 24, 2017) 73, US politician
• Andrey Zaliznyak (29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) 82, Russian linguist
• Eric Moonman (29 April 1929 – 22 December 2017) 88, British politician
• Irv Weinstein(April 29, 1930 – December 26, 2017) 87, US news anchor
• Marcus Raskin (April 30, 1934 – December 24, 2017)  83, US author 

Four were born on the same day, generating an “April 29(x4)” pattern-cluster.  And a fifth born on April 30th generates an “April __, 29(x4), 30/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster. This is a prompt for us to investigate further.  Beginning with the April 29th wiki page... using the formula, we arrive at:

• 2000 – Phạm Văn Đồng (1 March 1906 – 29 April 2000Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam 

Listed on Đồng‘s wiki page are a number of notable persons, note from their wiki pages:

• Nguyễn Văn Linh (1 July 1915 – 27 April 1998) 
• Hồ Chí Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969)
• Lê Duẩn (7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) 
• Phạm Hùng (June 11, 1912 – March 10, 1988) 
• Phan Châu Trinh (9 September 1872 — 24 March 1926)
• Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) 
• Pierre Mendès France (11 January 1907 – 18 October 1982) 
• Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)
• Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) 

To be continued....