Gherman

Given the “November 20(x2)” pattern cluster in my previous post, the following four notable persons recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2020 site in this last week stand out:  

• Julio Bécquer Villegas (December 20, 1931 – November 1, 2020)
• Rance Allen (November 20, 1948 – October 31, 2020)
• Rudolf Zahradník (October 20, 1928 – October 31, 2020)
• Naresh Kanodia (20 August 1943 – 27 October 2020) 

Note the “August 20(x2)__, October 20, November 20(x3), December 20/ 20th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster with their birthdays.  I also included another August 20– my fathers birthday.  Bridging the September 20 gap, using the formula we arrive at: 

• 1999 – Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)

Note from their Wikipedia pages: 

• Robert Lebel or LeBel (September 21, 1905 – September 20, 1999)
• Gherman Stepanovich Titov (11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000)

So, what to make of THAT?!  Tito’s stands out given his birthday, and note this photo’s caption found on his Wikipedia  page that expands the cluster: e “August 20(x2)__, October 20, November 20(x4), December 20/ 20th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster 

Titov, Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin at Red Square in Moscow, 20 November

Note the following info regarding the other two notable persons in the photo: 

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971)

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968)

And so a “9/11(x3)” pattern cluster now in the works !!!

Titov’s first name, Gherman, is an addition to the prolific “Remove a Letter Makes a Word” pattern cluster... hence making “German”, note the etymology: 

German (n.)

"a native of Germany," ... perhaps originally meaning "noisy"...

german (adj.)

"of the same parents or grandparents," c. 1300, from Old French germain "own, full; born of the same mother and father; closely related" (12c.), from Latin germanus "full, own (of brothers and sisters); one's own brother; genuine, real, actual, true," related to germen (genitive germinis) "sprout, bud," which is of uncertain origin; perhaps a dissimilation of PIE *gen(e)-men-, suffixed form of root *gene- "give birth, beget,"