Gun Place Advance

 Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2024 site has added under today (November 30): 

Gunārs Placēns [lv], 97, Latvian actor (The Silence of Dr. Evans)

His name caught my eye, given the two additions to the “Word in Name” pattern clusters, hence providing us with “gun”, “place” and “lace”.   He doesn’t have a wiki page, but the film mentioned above does,… and do note the “vans” in Evan’s.  Even though we recognize the word van to be a vehicle, in origin/etymology meaning is — Van:  the front part of an army or other advancing group.  This definition jives with the above “gun place”.  As for how “lace” factors in, note the following etymology: 

(source also of Italian laccio, Spanish lazo, English lasso), a trapping and hunting term, probably from Italic base *laq- "to ensnare" (compare Latin lacere "to entice").

Note the following information on the cast and crew of the film who stand out the most given my previous post: 

• Budimir Metalnikov ( 27 September 1925 – 1 September 2001)
• Eduard Artemyev  (30 November 1937 – 29 December 2022)
• Sergey Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 – 20 October 1994)  as Dr. Martin Evans

Placens had passed away on Artemyev’s birthday!!  Note as well the “my art” in the name Artemyev.  

The two September birthdays are additions to a cluster in my recent November 27 post, expanding it into a: 

 “September 25(x3), __, 27, 28/Date Sequence” pattern cluster

As to my tou sense worth… ?! Your guess is as good as mine.  You could bridge the September 26 gap if you want to understand more, … Or not.