October 18

Recently added to The Deaths in 2018 site:

• N. D. Tiwari, 93, Indian politician, Minister of External Affairs (1986–1987), Minister of Finance (1987–1988), multiple organ failure

Note from his wiki page:

• Narayan Datt Tiwari (18 October 1925 – 18 October 2018) 

Not only did he die on his birthday, butt both dates are additions to a cluster in my previous post:

• Pierre Barlaguet (18 October 1931 – 16 October 2018) 
• George C. Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) 
• Manuel Montalbán (14 June 1939  – 18 October 2003 
• Pierre Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000)

The four cropped up on following the leads, generating an “October 18(x4)” pattern cluster.  

Pierre Laporte (25 February 1921 – 17 October 1970) 

• Minister of Labourof the province of Quebec...  assassinated by members of the group Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during the October Crisis. Laporte's body was found in the trunk of Paul Rose's car
• Paul Abigal Rose (October 16, 1943 – March 14, 2013)  

I had written about the October Crisis in other posts, note the first two brought up by this blogs search engine: here and here, the first one made on October 20, 2015 and the second on October 20, 2016.  Note the following from the second:

• Pierre Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) Prime Minister
• Pierre Laporte (25 February 1921 – 17 October 1970) Murdered 
• Paul Rose (October 16, 1943 – March 14, 2013) Charged with Laporte's murder
• Tommy Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) 
•  Ken Wiwa, passed away recently on October 18....a mentor at the Trudeau Foundation^[2] in Canada

The cluster expands into an  “October 16, 17, 18(x5), __, 20/ Date Sequence” pattern cluster.

Tiwari wasn’t the only one who was born and died on October 18, note from my previous post:

• Manuel da Nóbrega (18 October 1517 – 18 October 1570)