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Wikipedias deaths in 2024 site lists under todays date: 

Black Caviar (18 August 2006 – 17 August 2024) 

• Luke Nolen (born 12 March 1980)
• David Lee Freedman (born 12 August 1956) 
• Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori (born 15 December 1970)

Also since Black Caviar died one day before her birthday, this is a prompt to investigate those who passed away on August 16, yesterday.  One stands out: 

• Charles Blackwell, 84, English arranger, record producer and songwriter.^[6] (death announced on this date)

Note the “Black Theme” pattern cluster!! 

Charles Blackwell (20 May 1940 – August 2024) — black well 

and perhaps this one as well: 

•  Scott Bloomquist, 60, American late model racing driver, plane crash
• Scott Dean Bloomquist (November 14, 1963 – August 16, 2024)

I’m reminded of the The Black Dahlia (film), note from the films cast and crew: 

• Pepe Serna (born July 23, 1944) —pep
• Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980)— mine diner finer liner miler mixer mimer miser miter 
• Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978)  —are heart net (net theme)
• Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) —hill area sank swan 
• Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) —star tar 
• Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) —saw 
• Mia Frye (born 12 February 1965)— fry

Following the leads, on the July 30 wiki page we arrive at: 

Anton Schwarzkopf (8 July 1924 – 30 July 2001)

And of course there are actual black swans, so on reading I noted the following from its wiki page: 

• An estimated one-quarter of all pairings are homosexual, mostly between males. They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs

Now THAT’S disturbing!!