My best friend (since I was 13) just passed away — November 24/24. It came as quite a shock, I had just talked with her only a few days before. She died of cardiac arrest brought on by pneumonia. She will be greatly missed.
On reading her obituary, I was reminded that her birth name was Carol and middle nameJoanne, but I and everyone else knew her as Joanne.
That Joanne passed one day after my mother’s birthday is significant— an addition to the prominent “Off By One” pattern cluster, and so a twins head up to investigate further,… I suspect … and so will start with Wikipedia’s list of notable deaths of 2024 on November 23. One stood out:
- Fred R. Harris, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1964–1973).
- Fred Roy Harris (November 13, 1930 – November 23, 2024)
He’s a politician and so has a sidebar information that includes two of his predecessors, note from their wiki pages::
- Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. (July 7, 1917 – September 28, 1990)
- James Howard Edmondson (September 27, 1925 – November 17, 1971)
As you can see, O’Brien passed away one day after Edmondson’s birthday. I’m also reminded of the fact that my friend Joanne’s birthday is September 25th. So we have a “September 25, __, 27, 28/Date Sequence” pattern cluster now in the works.
To bridge the September 26 gap, we venture to the days wikipedia page, using the formula as per usual and taking into consideration the “one off” cluster we arrive at the following individuals, but I’ve narrowed my search to the following five who stand out to me:
- 1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
- Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998)
- 1999 – Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
- Oseola McCarty (March 7, 1908 – September 26, 1999
- 2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
- Richard Mulligan (November 13, 1932 – September 26, 2000)
1888 – J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author (d. 1964)
- James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 – September 18, 1964)
- Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel (26 September 1887 – 13 June 1958)
Of the group above, Bennett stands out to me the most given his surname is also the surname of my expartner of 27 years, who I am embroiled in a lengthy and costly court battle for property settlement. AND, he died on my birthday!!
We also have two additions to the recent “Word/Car in Name” pattern cluster.
The rest who didn’t stand out so much:
- 2000 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1937)
- 2002 – Nils Bohlin, Swedish engineer, invented three-point safety belt (b. 1920)[57]
- 1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (d. 1967)
- 1887 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (d. 1979)
- 1888 – T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- 1889 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (d. 1946)
- 1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (d. 1976)
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